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Ethan Bito
dblp:414/7661
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0001-8509-9016ORCID · reported
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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
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| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval › reranking
listwise reranking |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | One Pass, Any Order: Position-Invariant Listwise Reranking for LLM-Based Recommendation · SIGIR 2026 |
Information retrieval › ranking
learning to rank |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | One Pass, Any Order: Position-Invariant Listwise Reranking for LLM-Based Recommendation · SIGIR 2026 |
Information retrieval › ranking › learning to rank
listwise learning to rank |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | One Pass, Any Order: Position-Invariant Listwise Reranking for LLM-Based Recommendation · SIGIR 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
structured attention mask · 1.0rotary positional embeddings · 1.0large language model · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | One Pass, Any Order: Position-Invariant Listwise Reranking for LLM-Based RecommendationabstractLarge language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for recommendation reranking, but their listwise predictions can depend on the order in which candidates are presented. This creates a mismatch between the set-based nature of recommendation and the sequence-based computation of decoder-only LLMs, where permuting an otherwise identical candidate set can change item scores and final rankings. Such order sensitivity makes LLM-based rerankers difficult to rely on, since rankings may reflect prompt serialization rather than user preference. We propose InvariRank, a permutation-invariant listwise reranking framework that addresses this dependence at the architectural level. InvariRank blocks cross-candidate attention with a structured attention mask and negates position-induced scoring changes through shared positional framing under Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE). Combined with a listwise learning-to-rank objective, the model scores all candidates in a single forward pass, avoiding permutation-based invariance training objectives that require multiple permutations of a candidate set. Experiments on recommendation benchmarks show that InvariRank maintains competitive ranking effectiveness while producing stable rankings across candidate permutations. The results suggest that architectural invariance is a practical route to reliable and efficient LLM-based recommendation reranking. The source code is at https://github.com/ejbito/InvariRank. Ethan Bito, Yongli Ren, Estrid He |
SIGIR | 1 |