Papers by Tarun Agarwal
A Representation Sharpening Framework for Zero Shot Dense Retrieval (2026.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Zero-shot dense retrieval requires generic, pretrained DRs, which struggle to represent semantic differences between similar documents. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free representation sharpening framework that augments a document’s representation with information that helps differentiate it from similar documents in the corpus. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is compatible with prior approaches to zero-shot dense retrieval and consistently improves their performance. |
Learning to Rewrite Negation Queries in Product Search (2025.coling-industry)
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| Challenge: | Negations in product search are often used to articulate unwanted product features or components. |
| Approach: | They propose a query rewriting approach to enhance product search performance . they use large language models to extract query reawrites from product text . their results pave the way for further research on enhancing search performance of queries with negations . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves search performance by 3.17% for queries with negations. |