Papers with frontier retrieval models
IFIR: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Instruction-Following in Expert-Domain Information Retrieval (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Current information retrieval systems struggle to handle complex instructions, despite its critical importance . current models struggle to follow complex instructions in real-world applications, resulting in user-specific tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate instruction-following information retrieval in expert domains. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on existing models and provides valuable insights to guide future advancements in retrieval. |