Accepted Papers

• LLMs Encode Query–Document Relevance as a Layer-wise Decodable Signal: Pietro Bernardelle, Stefano Civelli, Samaneh Mohtadi, Joel Mackenzie and Gianluca Demartini
• INSPIRA-RETRIEVE: Toward Explainable Multi-Objective UI Retrieval via Decoupled Functional-Structural Semantics: Po-Yu Chen and Pei-Chi Lo
• Rethinking Explainability for LLM Rankers: From Mechanistic Probes to Latent-Space Control: Yumeng Wang, Catherine Chen and Suzan Verberne
• Interpretable Uncertainty for Adaptive Retrieval and Reasoning in Question Answering: Ritajit Dey, Iadh Ounis and Graham McDonald
• Explaining When PRF Fails: Participatory Auditing for Selective Query Expansion: Zeyan Liang, Graham McDonald and Iadh Ounis
• A Counterfactual Explanation Framework for Retrieval Models: Bhavik Chandna and Procheta Sen
• Understanding Wacky Weights: A Dissection of SPLADE’s Learned Term Importance: Gregory Polyakov, Harrisen Scells and Carsten Eickhoff