Accepted Papers

• How Relevance Emerges: Interpreting LoRA Fine-Tuning in Reranking LLMs: Atharva Nijasure, Tanya Chowdhury and James Allan (poster number 51)
• Explainable Information Retrieval in the Audit Domain: Alexander Frummet, Emanuel Slany, Jonas Amling, Moritz Lang and Stephan Scheele (poster number 52)
• Towards End-to-End Model-Agnostic Explanations for RAG Systems: Viju Sudhi, Sinchana Ramakanth Bhat, Max Rudat, Roman Teucher and Nicolas Flores-Herr (poster number 53)
• Towards User-Centric Explainability in Conversational Information Retrieval: Yumeng Wang and Suzan Verberne (poster number 54)
• Understanding Matching Mechanisms in Cross-Encoders: Mathias Vast, Basile Van Cooten, Laure Soulier and Benjamin Piwowarski (poster number 55)
• Explainability for Transparent Conversational Information-Seeking: Weronika Łajewska, Damiano Spina, Johanne Trippas and Krisztian Balog (poster number 56)
• Generating Search Explanations using Large Language Models: Arif Laksito and Mark Stevenson (poster number 57)
• Mechanisms of Trending News in Recommender Systems: Jasmin Kareem, Martijn C. Willemsen and Maarten de Rijke (poster number 58)