Published in SIGIR 2026, 2026
A SIGIR 2026 full paper on continual generative retrieval with parametric memory.
Recommended citation: Mekonnen, K. A., et al. (2026). "A Parametric Memory Head for Continual Generative Retrieval." Proceedings of SIGIR 2026.
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Published in SIGIR 2026 Reproducibility Track, 2026
A SIGIR 2026 Reproducibility Track paper stress-testing the look-ahead prior in generative retrieval.
Recommended citation: Mekonnen, K. A., et al. (2026). "Lost in Decoding? Reproducing and Stress-Testing the Look-Ahead Prior in Generative Retrieval." Proceedings of SIGIR 2026.
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Published in ACL MeLLM 2026, 2026
An ACL MeLLM 2026 workshop paper on retrieval-layer failures in multilingual systems, with evidence from Amharic.
Recommended citation: Alemneh, Y. W.*, Mekonnen, K. A.*, and de Rijke, M. (2026). "The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic." The 1st Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models, ACL 2026. *Equal contribution.
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Published in ACL Findings 2025, 2025
An ACL Findings 2025 paper on embeddings and benchmarks for Amharic passage retrieval.
Recommended citation: Mekonnen, K. A., et al. (2025). "Optimized Text Embeddings & Benchmarks for Amharic Passage Retrieval." Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Published in SIGIR 2025, 2025
A SIGIR 2025 full paper on lightweight document relevance optimization for generative information retrieval.
Recommended citation: Mekonnen, K. A., et al. (2025). "Lightweight and Direct Document Relevance Optimization for Generative Information Retrieval." Proceedings of SIGIR 2025.
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Published in arXiv, 2024
An arXiv preprint on conditioning GANs without a training dataset.
Recommended citation: Mekonnen, K. A., et al. (2024). "Conditioning GAN Without Training Dataset." arXiv preprint.
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Published in arXiv, 2024
An arXiv preprint on adversarial knowledge distillation for faster diffusion sampling.
Recommended citation: Mekonnen, K. A., et al. (2024). "Adv-KD: Adversarial Knowledge Distillation for Faster Diffusion Sampling." arXiv preprint.
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Published in arXiv, 2023
An arXiv preprint on guiding StyleGAN to create labeled synthetic face datasets for underrepresented groups.
Recommended citation: Mekonnen, K. A., et al. (2023). "Balanced Face Dataset: Guiding StyleGAN for Labeled Synthetic Face Image Dataset for Underrepresented Group." arXiv preprint.
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