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  1. VeriCite: Towards Reliable Citations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Rigorous Verification

    Article • December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  2. Robust Neural Information Retrieval: An Adversarial and Out-of-Distribution Perspective

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang

  3. CorpusBrain++: A Continual Generative Pre-Training Framework for Knowledge-Intensive Language Tasks

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang, Jiangui Chen

  4. Generative Retrieval for Book Search

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  5. On the Scaling of Robustness and Effectiveness in Dense Retrieval

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang

  6. Boosting Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Generation-Augmented Retrieval: A Co-Training Approach

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  7. Robust-IR @ SIGIR 2025: The First Workshop on Robust Information Retrieval

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang, Yu-An Liu

  8. An Empirical Study of Evaluating Long-form Question Answering

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  9. Robust Information Retrieval

    Article • March 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang

  10. CAME: Competitively Learning a Mixture-of-Experts Model for First-stage Retrieval

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, January 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yinqiong Cai, Ruqing Zhang

  11. GaQR: An Efficient Generation-augmented Question Rewriter

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang, Jun Yang

  12. Text Matching Indexers in Taobao Search

    Article • August 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sen Li, Ruqing Zhang

  13. Recent Advances in Generative Information Retrieval

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yubao Tang, Ruqing Zhang

  14. Robust Information Retrieval

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang

  15. Gen-IR @ SIGIR 2024: The Second Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  16. Multi-granular Adversarial Attacks against Black-box Neural Ranking Models

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang

  17. Are Large Language Models Good at Utility Judgments?

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  18. Recent Advances in Generative Information Retrieval

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yubao Tang, Ruqing Zhang

  19. This is the first listwise optimization work for generative retrieval.

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang, Yubao Tang

  20. Report on the 1st Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval (Gen-IR 2023) at SIGIR 2023

    Article • ACM SIGIR Forum, December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang, Philipp Hager

  21. Recent Advances in Generative Information Retrieval

    Article • November 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  22. Continual Learning for Generative Retrieval over Dynamic Corpora

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang, Jiangui Chen

  23. Inducing Causal Structure for Abstractive Text Summarization

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  24. Black-box Adversarial Attacks against Dense Retrieval Models: A Multi-view Contrastive Learning Method

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang

  25. Topic-oriented Adversarial Attacks against Black-box Neural Ranking Models

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang, Yu-An Liu

  26. A Unified Generative Retriever for Knowledge-Intensive Language Tasks via Prompt Learning

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jiangui Chen, Ruqing Zhang

  27. Gen-IR@SIGIR 2023: The First Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  28. PRADA: Practical Black-box Adversarial Attacks against Neural Ranking Models

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  29. Are Neural Ranking Models Robust?

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  30. Semantic Models for the First-Stage Retrieval: A Comprehensive Review

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  31. A Contrastive Pre-training Approach to Discriminative Autoencoder for Dense Retrieval

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  32. GERE: Generative Evidence Retrieval for Fact Verification

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jiangui Chen, Ruqing Zhang

  33. Pre-train a Discriminative Text Encoder for Dense Retrieval via Contrastive Span Prediction

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  34. FedMatch

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang, Jiangui Chen

  35. A Review on Question Generation from Natural Language Text

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  36. B-PROP

    Article • July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  37. A Discriminative Semantic Ranker for Question Retrieval

    Article • July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  38. A Linguistic Study on Relevance Modeling in Information Retrieval

    Article • April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  39. PROP: Pre-training with Representative Words Prediction for Ad-hoc Retrieval

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  40. Beyond Relevance: Trustworthy Answer Selection via Consensus Verification

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang, Jiangui Chen

  41. Query Understanding via Intent Description Generation

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  42. Continual Domain Adaptation for Machine Reading Comprehension

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  43. Dual-factor Generation Model for Conversation

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  44. Match²

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang

  45. Outline Generation

    Article • July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruqing Zhang