CIS & MaiNLP Group picture at EMNLP 2025! 🤩 🤗 (1/3)

While I sadly 🥲 won't be at EMNLP this year myself, please do reach out to any of our members for a chat if you are interested in our research!

We also co-organize and participate in some great workshops at EMNLP:

Excited to be here in Suzhou for #EMNLP2025!
I’ll be presenting “ImpliRet”, check out our poster on Friday Nov. 7th at 14:00.
If you’re into long-context, IR, or just want to chat, come *Pay Ali* a visit 😁
Link to thread:
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Leaving Vancouver after ICML’s closing fireworks 😁🎆

Heading to Toronto for a few days, then off to
@aclmeeting.bsky.social to present:

"Collapse of Dense Retrievers"
A work by @mohsen-fayyaz.bsky.social that I was fortunate to collaborate on.

Also co-presenting two other papers…🧵 [1/4]

I’ll be at @icmlconf.bsky.social next week presenting NoLiMa!
Poster on Tue July 15, 4:30–7pm (E-2312).

Happy to grab a coffee and chat about long-context, memory, research, or just to catch up.

I’ll be in Toronto for a couple of days after the conference, let me know if you’re around!

MemLLM: Finetuning LLMs to Use Explicit Read-Write Memory

Ali Modarressi, Abdullatif Köksal, Ayyoob Imani, Mohsen Fayyaz, Hinrich Schuetze

Action editor: Greg Durrett

https://openreview.net/forum?id=dghM7sOudh

#memory #memorizing #memllm

📄 Collapse of Dense Retrievers

Accepted to #ACL2025 main conference 🎉🎉

In this paper we uncover major vulnerabilities in dense retrievers like Contriever, showing they favor:
📌 Shorter docs
📌 Early positions
📌 Repeated entities
📌 Literal matches
...all while ignoring the answer's presence!