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Jimmy Lin

University of Waterloo, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

65 papers at tracked venues · 38 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

SIGIR ×22ACL ×9ECIR ×8EMNLP ×8NAACL ×8NeurIPS ×3WSDM ×2AAAI ×1CIKM ×1ICLR ×1SIGKDD ×1VLDB ×1

Frequent coauthors

Xueguang Ma
×15
Ronak Pradeep
×12
Nandan Thakur
×12
Xinyu Zhang
×12
Shengyao Zhuang
×8
Sahel Sharifymoghaddam
×7
Shivani Upadhyay
×6
Zijian Chen
×5
Akintunde Oladipo
×5
Daniel Campos
×4
Nick Craswell
×4
Wenhu Chen
×4

Papers

  1. Assembling Your Personal AI Council in Yupp to Provide Multiple Perspectives
    WSDM 2026 · Jimmy Lin,
    Ronak Pradeep
    ,
    Gilad Mishne
    ,
    Pankaj Gupta
  2. Automating Generation of Long-Form Queries
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Shivani Upadhyay
    ,
    Daniel Campos
    ,
    Nandan Thakur
    ,
    Ronak Pradeep
    ,
    Nick Craswell
    , Jimmy Lin
  3. BrowseComp-Plus: A Fair and Disentangled Evaluation Benchmark for Deep Search Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zijian Chen
    ,
    Xueguang Ma
    ,
    Shengyao Zhuang
    ,
    Ping Nie
    ,
    Kai Zou
    ,
    Sahel Sharifymoghaddam
    ,
    Andrew Liu
    ,
    Joshua Green
    ,
    Kshama Patel
    ,
    Ruoxi Meng
    ,
    Mingyi Su
    ,
    Yanxi Li
    ,
    Haoran Hong
    ,
    Xinyu Shi
    ,
    Xuye Liu
    ,
    Hosna Oyarhoseini
    ,
    Nandan Thakur
    ,
    Crystina Zhang
    ,
    Luyu Gao
    ,
    Wenhu Chen
    , Jimmy Lin
  4. Contrastive Learning Falls Short: Improving Dense Retrieval with Cross-Encoder Listwise Distillation and Synthetic Data
    ECIR 2026 ·
    Manveer Singh Tamber
    ,
    Suleman Kazi
    ,
    Vivek Sourabh
    , Jimmy Lin
  5. Do We Still Need Text Features for Video Retrieval in the Era of Vision-Language Models?
    ECIR 2026 ·
    Jiaqi Samantha Zhan
    ,
    Crystina Zhang
    ,
    Shengyao Zhuang
    ,
    Xueguang Ma
    , Jimmy Lin
  6. LACONIC: Dense-Level Effectiveness for Scalable Sparse Retrieval via a Two-Phase Training Curriculum
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Zhichao Xu
    ,
    Shengyao Zhuang
    ,
    Crystina Zhang
    ,
    Xueguang Ma
    ,
    Yijun Tian
    ,
    Maitrey Mehta
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Vivek Srikumar
  7. Lighting the Way for BRIGHT: Reproducible Baselines with Anserini, Pyserini, and RankLLM
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Sahel Sharifymoghaddam
    ,
    Yijun Ge
    ,
    Raghav Vasudeva
    , Jimmy Lin
  8. MCP Servers for Pyserini and RankLLM: Enabling Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Yijun Ge
    ,
    Zibo Guo
    ,
    Sahel Sharifymoghaddam
    , Jimmy Lin
  9. NanoKnow: How to Know What Your Language Model Knows
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Lingwei Gu
    ,
    Nour Jedidi
    , Jimmy Lin
  10. Rank-R1: Enhancing Reasoning in LLM-based Document Rerankers via Reinforcement Learning
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Shengyao Zhuang
    ,
    Xueguang Ma
    ,
    Zheng Yao
    ,
    Shuai Wang
    ,
    Bevan Koopman
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Guido Zuccon
  11. Rerank Before You Reason: Analyzing Reranking Tradeoffs through Effective Token Cost in Deep Search Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Sahel Sharifymoghaddam
    , Jimmy Lin
  12. Revisiting BM25 Feedback Models using HyDE
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Nour Jedidi
    , Jimmy Lin
  13. Understanding Multi-Structured Documents via LLMs'
    ECIR 2026 ·
    Shivani Upadhyay
    ,
    Messiah Ataey
    ,
    Syed Shariyar Murtaza
    ,
    Yifan Nie
    ,
    Anirudh Aggarwal
    , Jimmy Lin
  14. rosaOS: Agentic Operating System for Embodied LLMs
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yijun Ge
    ,
    Kushaldeep Mujral
    ,
    Karthik Nambiar
    , Jimmy Lin
  15. Accelerating Listwise Reranking: Reproducing and Enhancing FIRST
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Zijian Chen
    ,
    Ronak Pradeep
    , Jimmy Lin
  16. AfroBench: How Good are Large Language Models on African Languages?
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jessica Ojo
    ,
    Odunayo Ogundepo
    ,
    Akintunde Oladipo
    ,
    Kelechi Ogueji
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Pontus Stenetorp
    ,
    David Ifeoluwa Adelani
  17. Assessing Support for the TREC 2024 RAG Track: A Large-Scale Comparative Study of LLM and Human Evaluations
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Nandan Thakur
    ,
    Ronak Pradeep
    ,
    Shivani Upadhyay
    ,
    Daniel Campos
    ,
    Nick Craswell
    ,
    Ian Soboroff
    ,
    Hoa Trang Dang
    , Jimmy Lin
  18. Benchmarking LLM Faithfulness in RAG with Evolving Leaderboards
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Manveer Singh Tamber
    ,
    Forrest Sheng Bao
    ,
    Chenyu Xu
    ,
    Ge Luo
    ,
    Suleman Kazi
    ,
    Minseok Bae
    ,
    Miaoran Li
    ,
    Ofer Mendelevitch
    ,
    Renyi Qu
    , Jimmy Lin
  19. Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB
    VLDB 2025 ·
    Anas Dorbani
    ,
    Sunny Yasser
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Amine Mhedhbi
  20. CURE: A dataset for Clinical Understanding & Retrieval Evaluation
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Nadia Sheikh
    ,
    Daniel Buades Marcos
    ,
    Anne-Laure Jousse
    ,
    Akintunde Oladipo
    ,
    Olivier Rousseau
    , Jimmy Lin
  21. Can't Hide Behind the API: Stealing Black-Box Commercial Embedding Models
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Manveer Singh Tamber
    ,
    Jasper Xian
    , Jimmy Lin
  22. DRAMA: Diverse Augmentation from Large Language Models to Smaller Dense Retrievers
    ACL 2025 ·
    Xueguang Ma
    ,
    Xi Victoria Lin
    ,
    Barlas Oguz
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Wen-tau Yih
    ,
    Xilun Chen
  23. Document Screenshot Retrievers are Vulnerable to Pixel Poisoning Attacks
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Shengyao Zhuang
    ,
    Ekaterina Khramtsova
    ,
    Xueguang Ma
    ,
    Bevan Koopman
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Guido Zuccon
  24. FreshStack: Building Realistic Benchmarks for Evaluating Retrieval on Technical Documents
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Nandan Thakur
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Sam Havens
    ,
    Michael Carbin
    ,
    Omar Khattab
    ,
    Andrew Drozdov
  25. Gosling Grows Up: Retrieval with Learned Dense and Sparse Representations Using Anserini
    SIGIR 2025 · Jimmy Lin,
    Arthur Haonan Chen
    ,
    Carlos Lassance
    ,
    Xueguang Ma
    ,
    Ronak Pradeep
    ,
    Tommaso Teofili
    ,
    Jasper Xian
    ,
    Jheng-Hong Yang
    ,
    Brayden Zhong
    ,
    Vincent Zhong
  26. Hard Negatives, Hard Lessons: Revisiting Training Data Quality for Robust Information Retrieval with LLMs
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Nandan Thakur
    ,
    Crystina Zhang
    ,
    Xueguang Ma
    , Jimmy Lin
  27. LiT and Lean: Distilling Listwise Rerankers Into Encoder-Decoder Models
    ECIR 2025 ·
    Manveer Singh Tamber
    ,
    Ronak Pradeep
    , Jimmy Lin
  28. MIRAGE-Bench: Automatic Multilingual Benchmark Arena for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Nandan Thakur
    ,
    Suleman Kazi
    ,
    Ge Luo
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Amin Ahmad
  29. Mm-Embed: Universal Multimodal Retrieval with Multimodal LLMS
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Sheng-Chieh Lin
    ,
    Chankyu Lee
    ,
    Mohammad Shoeybi
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Bryan Catanzaro
    ,
    Wei Ping
  30. Operational Advice for Dense and Sparse Retrievers: HNSW, Flat, or Inverted Indexes?
    ACL 2025 · Jimmy Lin
  31. Patience in Proximity: A Simple Early Termination Strategy for HNSW Graph Traversal in Approximate k-Nearest Neighbor Search
    ECIR 2025 ·
    Tommaso Teofili
    , Jimmy Lin
  32. QuackIR: Retrieval in DuckDB and Other Relational Database Management Systems
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yijun Ge
    ,
    Zijian Chen
    , Jimmy Lin
  33. Ragnarök: A Reusable RAG Framework and Baselines for TREC 2024 Retrieval-Augmented Generation Track
    ECIR 2025 ·
    Ronak Pradeep
    ,
    Nandan Thakur
    ,
    Sahel Sharifymoghaddam
    ,
    Eric Zhang
    ,
    Ryan Nguyen
    ,
    Daniel Campos
    ,
    Nick Craswell
    , Jimmy Lin
  34. Rank-Without-GPT: Building GPT-Independent Listwise Rerankers on Open-Source Large Language Models
    ECIR 2025 ·
    Crystina Zhang
    ,
    Sebastian Hofstätter
    ,
    Patrick Lewis
    ,
    Raphael Tang
    , Jimmy Lin
  35. RankLLM: A Python Package for Reranking with LLMs
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Sahel Sharifymoghaddam
    ,
    Ronak Pradeep
    ,
    Andre Slavescu
    ,
    Ryan Nguyen
    ,
    Andrew Xu
    ,
    Zijian Chen
    ,
    Yilin Zhang
    ,
    Yidi Chen
    ,
    Jasper Xian
    , Jimmy Lin
  36. Study on LLMs for Promptagator-Style Dense Retriever Training
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Daniel Gwon
    ,
    Nour Jedidi
    , Jimmy Lin
  37. Tevatron 2.0: Unified Document Retrieval Toolkit across Scale, Language, and Modality
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Xueguang Ma
    ,
    Luyu Gao
    ,
    Shengyao Zhuang
    ,
    Jiaqi Samantha Zhan
    ,
    Jamie Callan
    , Jimmy Lin
  38. The Great Nugget Recall: Automating Fact Extraction and RAG Evaluation with Large Language Models
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Ronak Pradeep
    ,
    Nandan Thakur
    ,
    Shivani Upadhyay
    ,
    Daniel Campos
    ,
    Nick Craswell
    ,
    Ian Soboroff
    ,
    Hoa Trang Dang
    , Jimmy Lin
  39. The Impact of Incidental Multilingual Text on Cross-Lingual Transfer in Monolingual Retrieval
    ECIR 2025 ·
    Andrew Liu
    ,
    Edward Xu
    ,
    Crystina Zhang
    , Jimmy Lin
  40. Tomato, Tomahto, Tomate: Do Multilingual Language Models Understand Based on Subword-Level Semantic Concepts?
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Crystina Zhang
    ,
    Jing Lu
    ,
    Vinh Q. Tran
    ,
    Tal Schuster
    ,
    Donald Metzler
    , Jimmy Lin
  41. UniRAG: Universal Retrieval Augmentation for Large Vision Language Models
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Sahel Sharifymoghaddam
    ,
    Shivani Upadhyay
    ,
    Wenhu Chen
    , Jimmy Lin
  42. VISA: Retrieval Augmented Generation with Visual Source Attribution
    ACL 2025 ·
    Xueguang Ma
    ,
    Shengyao Zhuang
    ,
    Bevan Koopman
    ,
    Guido Zuccon
    ,
    Wenhu Chen
    , Jimmy Lin
  43. Zero-Shot ATC Coding with Large Language Models for Clinical Assessments
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Zijian Chen
    ,
    John-Michael Gamble
    , Jimmy Lin
  44. "Knowing When You Don't Know": A Multilingual Relevance Assessment Dataset for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Nandan Thakur
    ,
    Luiz Bonifacio
    ,
    Xinyu Zhang
    ,
    Odunayo Ogundepo
    ,
    Ehsan Kamalloo
    ,
    David Alfonso-Hermelo
    ,
    Xiaoguang Li
    ,
    Qun Liu
    ,
    Boxing Chen
    ,
    Mehdi Rezagholizadeh
    , Jimmy Lin
  45. CELI: Simple yet Effective Approach to Enhance Out-of-Domain Generalization of Cross-Encoders
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Xinyu Zhang
    ,
    Minghan Li
    , Jimmy Lin
  46. CIRAL: A Test Collection for CLIR Evaluations in African Languages
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Mofetoluwa Adeyemi
    ,
    Akintunde Oladipo
    ,
    Xinyu Zhang
    ,
    David Alfonso-Hermelo
    ,
    Mehdi Rezagholizadeh
    ,
    Boxing Chen
    ,
    Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo
    ,
    Idris Abdulmumin
    ,
    Naome A. Etori
    ,
    Toyib Babatunde Musa
    ,
    Samuel Fanijo
    ,
    Oluwabusayo Olufunke Awoyomi
    ,
    Saheed Abdullahi Salahudeen
    ,
    Labaran Adamu Mohammed
    ,
    Daud Olamide Abolade
    ,
    Falalu Ibrahim Lawan
    ,
    Maryam Sabo Abubakar
    ,
    Ruqayya Nasir Iro
    ,
    Amina Abubakar Imam
    ,
    Shafie Abdi Mohamed
    ,
    Hanad Mohamud Mohamed
    ,
    Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi
    , Jimmy Lin
  47. Can Query Expansion Improve Generalization of Strong Cross-Encoder Rankers?
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Minghan Li
    ,
    Honglei Zhuang
    ,
    Kai Hui
    ,
    Zhen Qin
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Rolf Jagerman
    ,
    Xuanhui Wang
    ,
    Michael Bendersky
  48. ConvKGYarn: Spinning Configurable and Scalable Conversational Knowledge Graph QA Datasets with Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Ronak Pradeep
    ,
    Daniel Lee
    ,
    Ali Mousavi
    ,
    Jeffrey Pound
    ,
    Yisi Sang
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Ihab F. Ilyas
    ,
    Saloni Potdar
    ,
    Mostafa Arefiyan
    ,
    Yunyao Li
  49. EWEK-QA : Enhanced Web and Efficient Knowledge Graph Retrieval for Citation-based Question Answering Systems
    ACL 2024 ·
    Mohammad Dehghan
    ,
    Mohammad Ali Alomrani
    ,
    Sunyam Bagga
    ,
    David Alfonso-Hermelo
    ,
    Khalil Bibi
    ,
    Abbas Ghaddar
    ,
    Yingxue Zhang
    ,
    Xiaoguang Li
    ,
    Jianye Hao
    ,
    Qun Liu
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Boxing Chen
    ,
    Prasanna Parthasarathi
    ,
    Mahdi Biparva
    ,
    Mehdi Rezagholizadeh
  50. FLAME : Factuality-Aware Alignment for Large Language Models
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Sheng-Chieh Lin
    ,
    Luyu Gao
    ,
    Barlas Oguz
    ,
    Wenhan Xiong
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Scott Yih
    ,
    Xilun Chen
  51. Fine-Tuning LLaMA for Multi-Stage Text Retrieval
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Xueguang Ma
    ,
    Liang Wang
    ,
    Nan Yang
    ,
    Furu Wei
    , Jimmy Lin
  52. Found in the Middle: Permutation Self-Consistency Improves Listwise Ranking in Large Language Models
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Raphael Tang
    ,
    Xinyu Zhang
    ,
    Xueguang Ma
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Ferhan Ture
  53. Jointly Modeling Spatio-Temporal Features of Tactile Signals for Action Classification
    AAAI 2024 · Jimmy Lin,
    Junkai Li
    ,
    Jiasi Gao
    ,
    Weizhi Ma
    ,
    Yang Liu
  54. Leveraging LLMs for Synthesizing Training Data Across Many Languages in Multilingual Dense Retrieval
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Nandan Thakur
    ,
    Jianmo Ni
    ,
    Gustavo Hernández Ábrego
    ,
    John Wieting
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Daniel Cer
  55. Nearest Neighbor Speculative Decoding for LLM Generation and Attribution
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Minghan Li
    ,
    Xilun Chen
    ,
    Ari Holtzman
    ,
    Beidi Chen
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Scott Yih
    ,
    Victoria Lin
  56. On Backbones and Training Regimes for Dense Retrieval in African Languages
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Akintunde Oladipo
    ,
    Mofetoluwa Adeyemi
    , Jimmy Lin
  57. PromptReps: Prompting Large Language Models to Generate Dense and Sparse Representations for Zero-Shot Document Retrieval
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Shengyao Zhuang
    ,
    Xueguang Ma
    ,
    Bevan Koopman
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Guido Zuccon
  58. Reflections on the Coding Ability of LLMs for Analyzing Market Research Surveys
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Shi Zong
    ,
    Santosh Kolagati
    ,
    Amit Chaudhary
    ,
    Josh Seltzer
    , Jimmy Lin
  59. Resources for Brewing BEIR: Reproducible Reference Models and Statistical Analyses
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Ehsan Kamalloo
    ,
    Nandan Thakur
    ,
    Carlos Lassance
    ,
    Xueguang Ma
    ,
    Jheng-Hong Yang
    , Jimmy Lin
  60. Systematic Evaluation of Neural Retrieval Models on the Touché 2020 Argument Retrieval Subset of BEIR
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Nandan Thakur
    ,
    Luiz Bonifacio
    ,
    Maik Fröbe
    ,
    Alexander Bondarenko
    ,
    Ehsan Kamalloo
    ,
    Martin Potthast
    ,
    Matthias Hagen
    , Jimmy Lin
  61. Towards Robust QA Evaluation via Open LLMs
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Ehsan Kamalloo
    ,
    Shivani Upadhyay
    , Jimmy Lin
  62. Unifying Multimodal Retrieval via Document Screenshot Embedding
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Xueguang Ma
    ,
    Sheng-Chieh Lin
    ,
    Minghan Li
    ,
    Wenhu Chen
    , Jimmy Lin
  63. Vector Search with OpenAI Embeddings: Lucene Is All You Need
    WSDM 2024 ·
    Jasper Xian
    ,
    Tommaso Teofili
    ,
    Ronak Pradeep
    , Jimmy Lin
  64. Words Worth a Thousand Pictures: Measuring and Understanding Perceptual Variability in Text-to-Image Generation
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Raphael Tang
    ,
    Xinyu Zhang
    ,
    Lixinyu Xu
    ,
    Yao Lu
    ,
    Wenyan Li
    ,
    Pontus Stenetorp
    , Jimmy Lin,
    Ferhan Ture
  65. Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Reranking with Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages
    ACL 2024 ·
    Mofetoluwa Adeyemi
    ,
    Akintunde Oladipo
    ,
    Ronak Pradeep
    , Jimmy Lin