📢 We're off to #SIGIR2025 in Padova! A large contingent of our students & staff will be at the main conference + tutorials, workshops & #ICTIR2025. Let’s connect if you’re around! 🤝 Also: we're hiring in #FinTech — DM us if you're interested! #IR #Hiring #Research #ACMSIGIR

🎉 An open-source AI Agent project, EvoAgentX, led by @uofglasgow.bsky.social PhD students, has received 260+ ⭐️ on GitHub in just 5 DAYS!🔥 🤖 The project aims to build a Self-Evolving Ecosystem of AI Agents. @irglasgow.bsky.social @idaglasgow.bsky.social #AI #EvoAgentX

Huge congratulations to our brilliant PhD graduates: @tjaenich.bsky.social, @mariavlachou.bsky.social, and @apetrov.bsky.social 🎉 It’s been a joy having you @uofgcompsci.bsky.social - We’re so proud of all you’ve achieved and can’t wait to see what amazing things you’ll do next! 👏 #PhDGraduation

Congratulations to @tjaenich.bsky.social who defended his PhD Thesis Fair Group-Based Exposure of Documents in Ranked Search Results 👏👏 Was a pleasure supervising your PhD along with @iadhounis.bsky.social. @irglasgow.bsky.social Thanks to the examiners Dr. Sole Pera and Christos Anagnostopoulos!

Arrivederci #ecir2025 … and thanks for all the fish - see you all in Delft!

Congratulations to Manish Chandra, @gdebasis.bsky.social and @iadhounis.bsky.social for being awarded the Best Paper Award at #ECIR2025 for their work entitled “One size doesn’t fit all: Predicting the number of examples for in-context learning”. The paper will be presented Wednesday morning.

Yesterday, @ttsamurai.bsky.social has been busy at #ECIR2025, demoing FinPersona (w/ M Suzuki l, K Izumi, @javiersanzcruza.bsky.social, @richardmcc.bsky.social & @iadhounis.bsky.social). Great to see many people interested in FinTech LLM agents! Try Demo at: huggingface.co/spaces/TTsam...

Happy to share that our (w/ @grahammcdonald.bsky.social and @craigmacdonald.bsky.social) work "Measuring Hypothesis Testing Errors in the Evaluation of Retrieval Systems" has been accepted to #SIGIR2025 as a short paper! 🎉Exciting times! 🇮🇹 @ir_glasgow

A large contingent of our staff & students @uofgcompsci.bsky.social will soon be traveling to #ECIR2025. We'll be presenting our latest work in #search & #RecSys throughout the 5-day conference. Looking forward to connecting with colleagues and friends in Lucca!

About a week left to apply to this postdoctoral position in Responsible AI/IR at @irglasgow.bsky.social Details are below. Deadline to apply: 26th March

Watching @iadhounis.bsky.social give a Keynote talk about reproducibility and PyTerrier pipelines in Tsukuba x Glasgow workshop on the Frontiers of AI. @irglasgow.bsky.social

We are recruiting a postdoc at @irglasgow.bsky.social to work on the Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies (PHAWM) RAI UK project on Responsible AI. phawm.org Deadline: 26th March www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Come work with us in Glasgow! We are recruiting a postdoc at @uofgcompsci.bsky.social to work on understanding & measuring the harm of AI-driven IR approaches within various search contexts as part of the PHAWM project on Responsible AI. Deadline: 26/03 Details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Happy to share that our paper entitled "A Multi-modal Large Language Model with Graph-of-Thought for Effective Recommendation" has been accepted by @naaclmeeting.bsky.social as a main conference paper, co-authored with @iadhounis.bsky.social. #NAACL2025

We have 2 tenure-track faculty openings in Machine Learning at @uofgcompsci.bsky.social; Applications are welcome in the general areas of AI & ML, which complement existing strengths in the @idaglasgow.bsky.social section. Details at: jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer-s… Deadline: 17 Feb 2025 at 23:45

Happy to share that our paper entitled “Enhancing Recommender Systems: Deep Modality Alignment with Large Multi-Modal Encoders” has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems - joint work with Zijun Long, @iadhounis.bsky.social, @craigmacdonald.bsky.social and @richardmcc.bsky.social.

At 15:00 on 13th January, Francesco Luigi De Faveri from University of Padua will give an #IRTalk entitled "Preserving Privacy in Information Retrieval: Leveraging Differential Privacy Across Domains". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt... @uofgcompsci.bsky.social @irglasgow.bsky.social

🚨A week to go (!) before the poster papers abstract deadline for #ICDCS2025🚨 Submissions should be in the form of papers in a short format that are best presented as posters. icdcs2025.icdcs.org/call-for-pos... Deadlines: 15 Jan (abstracts), 22 Jan (papers).

Today, Xiaoyu Zhang from Shandong University is giving an #IRTalk entitled "Enhancing Conversational Recommender Systems: Integrating Knowledge, Context, and Emotions". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt... @uofgcompsci.bsky.social @irglasgow.bsky.social

At 15:00 on 6th January, Xiaoyu Zhang from Shandong University will give an #IRTalk entitled "Enhancing Conversational Recommender Systems: Integrating Knowledge, Context, and Emotions". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt... @uofgcompsci.bsky.social @irglasgow.bsky.social

We snuck out new releases in PyTerrier ecosystem in the last few weeks, with a number of 😍 changes…. 🧵👇 1/7 github.com/terrier-org/... pyterrier.readthedocs.io cc/ @irglasgow.bsky.social

Glad to share that our work (by Fanghzhen Tian and w/ @gdebasis.bsky.social and myself) "Is Relevance ‘Lost in Transmission’ from Retriever to Generator?" has been accepted to #ecir2025 as a full paper. See you next spring in Lucca 🙋🏻‍♂️ @irglasgow.bsky.social

Delighted to announce 'Semantically Proportioned nDCG for Explaining ColBERT’s Learning Process' with Ariane Mueller accepted to #ecir2025 Findings @irglasgow.bsky.social

Happy to share that our (w/ @grahammcdonald.bsky.social and @craigmacdonald.bsky.social ) work "Context Example Selection For LLM Generated Relevance Assessments" has been accepted to #ecir2025 as a full paper! 🎉 Exciting times! 🇮🇹 @irglasgow.bsky.social

Full length paper entitled “A Multi-modal Recipe for Improved Multi-domain Recommendation” has been accepted at #ecir2025 - work by @zixuanyi.bsky.social and @iadhounis.bsky.social

Full length paper entitled “One size doesn’t fit all: Predicting the Number of Examples for In-Context Learning” has been accepted at #ecir2025 - work by Manish Chandra, @gdebasis.bsky.social and @iadhounis.bsky.social

Happy to share that our paper "Improving novelty and diversity of nearest-neighbors recommendation by exploiting dissimilarities" with @psperez.bsky.social and @abellogin.bsky.social has been accepted to #ECIR2025 IR4Good track!

#IR4Good paper entitled “Fair Exposure Allocation Using Generative Query Expansion” has been accepted to #ecir2025 - work by @tjaenich.bsky.social @grahammcdonald.bsky.social and @iadhounis.bsky.social

#IR4Good paper entitled “Improving Low-Resource Retrieval Effectiveness using Zero-Shot Linguistic Similarity Transfer” has been accepted to #ecir2025 - work by @andreaschari.bsky.social @macavaney.bsky.social and @iadhounis.bsky.social

Demo paper entitled “FinPersona: An LLM-Driven Conversational Agent for Personalized Financial Advising” has been accepted to #ecir2025 - output of a collaboration with University of Tokyo with T Takayanagi, M Suzuki, K Izumi, R McCreadie, @javiersanzcruza.bsky.social and @iadhounis.bsky.social

At 15:00 on 9th Dec, Jianghao Lin from Shanghai Jiaotong University will give an #IRTalk entitled "Deploying LLMs for Industrial RecSys: From Effectiveness Improvement to Efficiency Optimization". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt... @uofgcompsci.bsky.social @irglasgow.bsky.social

At 15:00 on 2nd December, Xinghai Hu from Tiktok will give an #IRTalk entitled "Building Trustworthy Recommendation System". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt... @uofgcompsci.bsky.social @irglasgow.bsky.social

Today, Jianling Wang from Google DeepMind is giving an #IRTalk entitled "When LLMs Meet Recommendations: Scalable Hybrid Approaches to Enhance User Experiences". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… @uofgcompsci.bsky.social @irglasgow.bsky.social

Today we have a LLMs +RecSys talk by Jianling Wang from Google Deepmind at our seminar at @irglasgow.bsky.social

Tomorrow, in our weekly reading group series, we will be discussing the recent Nature paper entitled “Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy“ by Farquhar et al. #IRGlasgowReadingGroup www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Considering this is a new social network, I will take the opportunity to introduce myself to the research community here. 1. I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Information Retrieval Group at the University of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿(@irglasgow.bsky.social), interested in RecSys, graphs, IR and NLP.

Today, Aixin Sun from the Nanyang Technological University is giving an #IRTalk entitled "Understanding and Evaluating Recommender Systems from a User Perspective". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt... @uofgcompsci.bsky.social @irglasgow.bsky.social

At 15:00 on 25th November, Jianling Wang from Google DeepMind will give an #IRTalk entitled "When LLMs Meet Recommendations: Scalable Hybrid Approaches to Enhance User Experiences". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt... @uofgcompsci.bsky.social @irglasgow.bsky.social

Ok, let me introduce myself on this new platform. 1. I'm a researcher of recommender systems and IR platforms. I'm currently finishing my PhD at RecSys and IR at the University of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Hello everyone! Happy to be here! If you are interested on the research that we do at @irglasgow.bsky.social (IR, RecSys, NLP), I have created an starter pack for you! Access it here: go.bsky.app/BM6iHbU I will keep updating it over time as more people in our team join BlueSky!