๐ช Belatedly plugging a paper that attempts to bridge information nuggets and side-by-side comparisons with @arena data for complex LLM responses (tl;dr - pointwise vs. pairwise evaluations) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/38โฆ Paper led by @Sahel_Sharify @Ushivani3 @beirmug!
I profess CS-ly at @UWaterloo. Previously, I monkeyed code for @Twitter, slides for @Cloudera, and scienced for @yupp_ai.
- The saga continues ๐ All you need... grep? โ BM25? โ psssh... ๐ข๐ด Boolean! โ๏ธThis was fun. Humans need powerful search tools, but even exact-match Boolean queries can work for agentic search. Our Boolean ranking uses only match proximity and density. No learning, vectors, or even term statistics required. arxiv.org/pdf/2607.11362
- It's now officially ๐จโ๐ DR @xueguang_ma - who yesterday successfully defended his Ph.D. ๐ Congrats!
- ๐ Congrats to @Ushivani3 - the lead author on our UMBRELA LLM-as-relevance-judge work (and more!) - wrap up her Master's thesis! uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/items/4d18073eโฆ Another student flies the nest... ๐ฆ sad to see them go, but looking forward to all the amazing things they'll do!


