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On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

Result Diversification in Search and Recommendation: A Survey

ICRA 2024 conference recap blog - RASCAL library

RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

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From Searchable to Non-Searchable: Generative AI and Information Diversity in Online Information Seeking

Yulin Yu, Yizhou Li, Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts

April 2026

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On the Use of LLMs for Relevance Labelling

Marwah Alaofi, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson

ACM Transactions on Information Systems | April 2026, Vol 44(4)

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Drift-Aware Continual Tokenization for Generative Recommendation

Yu-Hao Feng, Jiahao Liu, Mingzhe Han, Dongsheng Li, H. Gu, Peng Zhang, Tun Lu, Ning Gu

March 2026

arXiv | March 2026

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A Benchmark for Deep Information Synthesis

Debjit Paul, D. Murphy, Milan Gritta, Ronald Cardenas, V. Prokhorov, L. Bolliger, Aysim Toker, Roy Miles, Andreea-Maria Oncescu, Jasivan Sivakumar, Philipp Borchert, Ismail Elezi, Meiru Zhang, Kukjin Lee, Guchun Zhang, Jun Wang, Gerasimos Lampouras

ICLR 2026 | February 2026

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A Tale of Two Graphs: Separating Knowledge Exploration from Outline Structure for Open-Ended Deep Research

Zhuofan Shi, M. Ma, Zekun Yao, Fangkai Yang, Jue Zhang, Dongge Han, Victor Ruhle, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang

ICML 2026 | February 2026

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Welfarist Formulations for Diverse Similarity Search

Siddharth Barman, Nirjhar Das, Shivam Gupta, Kiran Shiragur

ICLR 2026 | February 2026

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Microsoft Research India 2025 Highlights

January 19, 2026

Here are some highlights of the research and impact at Microsoft Research India in 2025, along with some glimpses of the lab milieu.

Microsoft Research India 2025 Key Highlights

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Fine-tuning Small Language Models as Efficient Enterprise Search Relevance Labelers

Yue Kang, Zhuoyi Huang, Benji Schussheim, Diana Licon, Dina Atia, Shixing Cao, Jacob Danovitch, Kunho Kim, Billy Norcilien, Jonah Karpman, Mahmound Sayed, Mike Taylor, Tao Sun, Pavel Metrikov, Vipul Agarwal, Chris Quirk, Ye-Yi Wang, Nick Craswell, Irene Shaffer, Tianwei Chen, Sulaiman Vesal, Soundar Srinivasan

ArXiv | January 2026

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Scalable Distributed Vector Search via Accuracy Preserving Index Construction

Yuming Xu, Qianxi Zhang, Qi Chen, Baotong Lu, Menghao Li, Philip Adams, Mingqin Li, Zengzhong Li, Jing Liu, Cheng Li, Fan Yang

December 2025

arXiv | December 2025

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