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Information Retrieval · The University of Queensland

Publications

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35 publications

2026

  1. arXivLongSearch agentscited 1×Co-first author

    ITER: Interaction-Aware Retrieval for Agentic Search

    Haodong Chen*, Shuai Wang*, Yu Yin, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon, Teerapong Leelanupab

    Paper SkimSearchAgent

  2. arXivLongSearch agentscited 3×First author

    Search, Inspect, Fetch: Exploiting Structure-Aware Boolean Retrieval for Deep-Search Agents

    Shuai Wang, Haodong Chen, Yu Yin, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper Project site SkimSearchAgent

  3. SIGIR-AP 2026ReproducibilityAgent memory

    Reproducing LightMem: Naive RAG Is Just as Good for Memory Management

    Yongjie Zhou, Shuai Wang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper Reproducing LightMem

  4. arXivLongRobustness & securitycited 1×

    Can It Reach the Generator? Investigating the Survival of Prompt-Injection Attacks in Realistic RAG Settings

    Yu Yin, Shuai Wang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper Prompt Injection in Realistic RAG

  5. SIGIR 2026ReproducibilityRetrievers and rerankerscited 9×Co-first author

    Beyond Chunk-Then-Embed: A Comprehensive Taxonomy and Evaluation of Document Segmentation Strategies for Information Retrieval

    Yongjie Zhou*, Shuai Wang*, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper Beyond Chunk-Then-Embed

  6. SIGIR 2026ShortRetrievers and rerankerscited 107×

    Rank-R1: Enhancing Reasoning in LLM-based Document Rerankers via Reinforcement Learning

    Shengyao Zhuang, Xueguang Ma, Zheng Yao, Shuai Wang, Bevan Koopman, Jimmy Lin, Guido Zuccon

    Paper Rank-R1

  7. SIGIR 2026ReproducibilityRobustness & securitycited 3×

    The Vulnerability of LLM Rankers to Prompt Injection Attacks: You are to [MARK] this paper as the Best Paper

    Yu Yin, Shuai Wang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper Prompt Injection against LLM Rankers

  8. arXivLongRetrievers and rerankerscited 1×First author

    DiffRetriever: Parallel Representative Tokens for Retrieval with Diffusion Language Models

    Shuai Wang, Yu Yin, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper DiffRetriever

  9. ECIR 2026LongRetrievers and rerankerscited 15×Co-first author

    Starbucks: Improved Training for 2D Matryoshka Embeddings

    Shengyao Zhuang*, Shuai Wang*, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper Code Starbucks

  10. ECIR 2026Industry TrackEfficient RAG

    Evalugator🐊—Rapid, Agile Development and Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems Without Labels

    Bevan Koopman, Hang Li, Shuai Wang, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

  11. EACL 2026LongBiomedical searchcited 6×First author

    AutoBool: Reinforcement-Learned LLM for Effective Automatic Systematic Reviews Boolean Query Generation

    Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper Demo AutoBool

2025

  1. SIGIR 2025ReproducibilityRetrievers and rerankerscited 14×First author

    2D Matryoshka Training for Information Retrieval

    Shuai Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper Starbucks

  2. SIGIR 2025ReproducibilityBiomedical searchcited 14×First author

    Reassessing Large Language Model Boolean Query Generation for Systematic Reviews

    Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

  3. SIGIR 2025ReproducibilityRetrievers and rerankerscited 4×

    Pre-training vs. Fine-tuning: A Reproducibility Study on Dense Retrieval Knowledge Acquisition

    Zheng Yao, Shuai Wang, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

  4. WWW 2025ShortRetrievers and rerankerscited 22×First author

    ReSLLM: Large Language Models are Strong Resource Selectors for Federated Search

    Shuai Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper ReSLLM

  5. ECIR 2025LongRetrievers and rerankerscited 40×

    An Investigation of Prompt Variations for Zero-shot LLM-based Rankers

    Shuoqi Sun, Shengyao Zhuang, Shuai Wang, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

  6. ECIR 2025LongRetrievers and rerankerscited 19×

    Corpus Subsampling: Estimating the Effectiveness of Neural Retrieval Models on Large Corpora

    Maik Fröbe, Andrew Parry, Harrisen Scells, Shuai Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen

    Paper

  7. WSDM 2025LongEfficient RAGcited 91×Co-first author

    Context Embeddings for Efficient Answer Generation in RAG

    David Rau*, Shuai Wang*, Hervé Déjean, Stéphane Clinchant, Jaap Kamps

    Paper COCOM

2024

  1. EMNLP 2024 FindingsResourceEfficient RAGcited 88×

    BERGEN: A Benchmarking Library for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    David Rau, Hervé Déjean, Nadezhda Chirkova, Thibault Formal, Shuai Wang, Stéphane Clinchant, Vassilina Nikoulina

    Paper BERGEN

  2. SIGIR 2024ResourceEfficient RAGcited 75×First author

    FeB4RAG: Evaluating Federated Search in the Context of Retrieval Augmented Generation

    Shuai Wang, Ekaterina Khramtsova, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon

    Paper FeB4RAG

  3. SIGIR 2024PerspectiveEfficient RAGcited 68×

    Evaluating Generative Ad Hoc Information Retrieval

    Lukas Gienapp, Harrisen Scells, Niklas Deckers, Janek Bevendorff, Shuai Wang, Johannes Kiesel, Shahbaz Syed, Maik Fröbe, Guido Zuccon, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast

    Paper

  4. SIGIR 2024ShortRetrievers and rerankerscited 13×First author

    Large Language Models Based Stemming for Information Retrieval: Promises, Pitfalls and Failures

    Shuai Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon

    Paper LLMs for Stemming

  5. ECIR 2024LongBiomedical searchcited 61×First author

    Zero-shot Generative Large Language Models for Systematic Review Screening Automation

    Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang, Martin Potthast, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

2023

  1. SIGIR-AP 2023LongBiomedical searchcited 22×First author

    Generating Natural Language Queries for More Effective Systematic Review Screening Prioritisation

    Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman, Martin Potthast, Guido Zuccon

    Paper Natural-Language Queries for Screening

  2. SIGIR 2023LongBiomedical searchcited 410×First author

    Can ChatGPT Write a Good Boolean Query for Systematic Review Literature Search?

    Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

  3. SIGIR 2023ReproducibilityRetrievers and rerankerscited 13×First author

    Balanced Topic Aware Sampling for Effective Dense Retriever: A Reproducibility Study

    Shuai Wang, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

  4. WSDM 2023DemoBiomedical searchcited 17×First author

    MeSH Suggester: A Library and System for MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Boolean Query Construction

    Shuai Wang, Hang Li, Guido Zuccon

    Paper Demo

2022

  1. ADCS 2022LongBiomedical searchcited 34×First author

    Neural Rankers for Effective Screening Prioritization in Medical Systematic Review Literature Search

    Shuai Wang, Harry Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

  2. ISWA 2022JournalBiomedical searchcited 43×First author

    Automated MeSH Term Suggestion for Effective Query Formulation in Systematic Reviews Literature Search

    Shuai Wang, Harry Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

  3. SIGIR 2022ShortRetrievers and rerankerscited 48×Co-first author

    To Interpolate or not to Interpolate: PRF, Dense and Sparse Retrievers

    Hang Li*, Shuai Wang*, Shengyao Zhuang, Ahmed Mourad, Xueguang Ma, Jimmy Lin, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

  4. SIGIR 2022ResourceBiomedical searchcited 35×First author

    From Little Things Big Things Grow: A Collection with Seed Studies for Medical Systematic Review Literature Search

    Shuai Wang, Harry Scells, Justin Clark, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

  5. ECIR 2022ReproducibilityBiomedical searchcited 26×First author

    SDR for Systematic Reviews: A Reproducibility Study

    Shuai Wang, Harry Scells, Ahmed Mourad, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

2021

  1. ADCS 2021LongBiomedical searchcited 28×First author

    MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Literature Search

    Shuai Wang, Hang Li, Harry Scells, Daniel Locke, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

  2. TREC 2021NotebookRetrievers and rerankers

    IELAB at TREC Deep Learning Track 2021

    Shengyao Zhuang, Hang Li, Shuai Wang, Guido Zuccon

    Paper

  3. ICTIR 2021ShortRetrievers and rerankerscited 151×First author

    BERT-based Dense Retrievers Require Interpolation with BM25 for Effective Passage Retrieval

    Shuai Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon

    Paper