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Irvin Topi

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0001-8298-5039ORCID · reported

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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper
Information retrieval · 100%
Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Question answering and dialogue systems · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Information retrieval › retrieval models › neural retrieval
dense retrieval
1.012026
WebFAQ 2.0: A Multilingual QA Dataset with Mined Hard Negatives for Dense Retrieval · SIGIR 2026
Information retrieval
hard negative mining
1.012026
WebFAQ 2.0: A Multilingual QA Dataset with Mined Hard Negatives for Dense Retrieval · SIGIR 2026
Natural language and speech › Question answering and dialogue systems
open-domain question answering
0.312026
WebFAQ 2.0: A Multilingual QA Dataset with Mined Hard Negatives for Dense Retrieval · SIGIR 2026

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

knowledge distillation · 2.0cross-encoder · 2.0contrastive learning · 2.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 WebFAQ 2.0: A Multilingual QA Dataset with Mined Hard Negatives for Dense Retrieval
abstract
We introduce WebFAQ 2.0, a new version of the WebFAQ dataset, containing 198 million FAQ-based natural question-answer pairs across 108 languages. Compared to the previous version, it significantly expands multilingual coverage and the number of bilingual aligned QA pairs to over 14.3M, making it the largest FAQ-based resource. Unlike the original release, WebFAQ 2.0 uses a novel data collection strategy that directly crawls and extracts relevant web content, resulting in a substantially more diverse and multilingual dataset with richer context through page titles and descriptions. In response to community feedback, we also release a hard negatives dataset for training dense retrievers, with 1.25M queries across 20 languages. These hard negatives were mined using a two-stage retrieval pipeline and include cross-encoder scores for 200 negatives per query. We further show how this resource enables two primary fine-tuning strategies for dense retrievers: Contrastive Learning with MultipleNegativesRanking loss, and Knowledge Distillation with MarginMSE loss.
Michael Dinzinger, Laura Caspari, Ali Salman, Irvin Topi, Jelena Mitrovic, Michael Granitzer
SIGIR4