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# SIGIR 2021 — accepted papers

SIGIR 2021 is the 2021 edition of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR). OpenAlex lists 382 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**382** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/2021/#works) · [**937** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/2021/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Self-supervised Graph Learning for Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462862)**Jiancan Wu, Xiang Wang, Fuli Feng et al.*1,488 citations*
2. **[Sequential Recommendation with Graph Neural Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462968)**Jianxin Chang, Chen Gao, Yu Zheng et al.*433 citations*
3. **[Causal Intervention for Leveraging Popularity Bias in Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462875)**Yang Zhang, Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He et al.*426 citations*
4. **[SPLADE: Sparse Lexical and Expansion Model for First Stage Ranking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/formal-2021-splade-sparse-lexical-expansion/)**Thibault Formal, Benjamin Piwowarski, Stéphane Clinchant*394 citations · our summary*
5. **[Pyserini: A Python Toolkit for Reproducible Information Retrieval Research with Sparse and Dense Representations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463238)**Jimmy Lin, Xueguang Ma, Sheng-Chieh Lin et al.*350 citations*
6. **[Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning Based on Evolutional Representation Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462963)**Zixuan Li, Xiaolong Jin, Wei Li et al.*348 citations*
7. **[Efficiently Teaching an Effective Dense Retriever with Balanced Topic Aware Sampling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hofstatter-2021-efficiently-teaching-effective-dense-retriever/)**Sebastian Hofstätter, Sheng-Chieh Lin, Jheng-Hong Yang et al.*293 citations · our summary*
8. **[Hierarchical Multi-modal Contextual Attention Network for Fake News Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462871)**Shengsheng Qian, Jinguang Wang, Jun Hu et al.*276 citations*
9. **[User Preference-aware Fake News Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462990)**Yingtong Dou, Kai Shu, Congying Xia et al.*272 citations*
10. **[Optimizing Dense Retrieval Model Training with Hard Negatives ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462880)**Jingtao Zhan, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu et al.*244 citations*

## All accepted papers (382)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Self-supervised Graph Learning for Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462862)**Jiancan Wu, Xiang Wang, Fuli Feng et al.*1,488 citations*
2. **[Sequential Recommendation with Graph Neural Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462968)**Jianxin Chang, Chen Gao, Yu Zheng et al.*433 citations*
3. **[Causal Intervention for Leveraging Popularity Bias in Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462875)**Yang Zhang, Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He et al.*426 citations*
4. **[SPLADE: Sparse Lexical and Expansion Model for First Stage Ranking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/formal-2021-splade-sparse-lexical-expansion/)**Thibault Formal, Benjamin Piwowarski, Stéphane Clinchant*394 citations · our summary*
5. **[Pyserini: A Python Toolkit for Reproducible Information Retrieval Research with Sparse and Dense Representations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463238)**Jimmy Lin, Xueguang Ma, Sheng-Chieh Lin et al.*350 citations*
6. **[Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning Based on Evolutional Representation Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462963)**Zixuan Li, Xiaolong Jin, Wei Li et al.*348 citations*
7. **[Efficiently Teaching an Effective Dense Retriever with Balanced Topic Aware Sampling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hofstatter-2021-efficiently-teaching-effective-dense-retriever/)**Sebastian Hofstätter, Sheng-Chieh Lin, Jheng-Hong Yang et al.*293 citations · our summary*
8. **[Hierarchical Multi-modal Contextual Attention Network for Fake News Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462871)**Shengsheng Qian, Jinguang Wang, Jun Hu et al.*276 citations*
9. **[User Preference-aware Fake News Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462990)**Yingtong Dou, Kai Shu, Congying Xia et al.*272 citations*
10. **[Optimizing Dense Retrieval Model Training with Hard Negatives ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462880)**Jingtao Zhan, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu et al.*244 citations*
11. **[Graph Meta Network for Multi-Behavior Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462972)**Lianghao Xia, Yong Xu, Chao Huang et al.*219 citations*
12. **[WIT: Wikipedia-based Image Text Dataset for Multimodal Multilingual Machine Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463257)**Krishna Srinivasan, Karthik Raman, Jiecao Chen et al.*208 citations*
13. **[Deconfounded Video Moment Retrieval with Causal Intervention ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462823)**Xun Yang, Fuli Feng, Wei Ji et al.*197 citations*
14. **[Dynamic Modality Interaction Modeling for Image-Text Retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462829)**Leigang Qu, Meng Liu, Jianlong Wu et al.*186 citations*
15. **[Clicks can be Cheating: Counterfactual Recommendation for Mitigating Clickbait Issue ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462962)**Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He et al.*173 citations*
16. **[RCD: Relation Map Driven Cognitive Diagnosis for Intelligent Education Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462932)**Weibo Gao, Qi Liu, Zhenya Huang et al.*170 citations*
17. **[Empowering News Recommendation with Pre-trained Language Models ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463069)**Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Tao Qi et al.*169 citations*
18. **[AutoDebias: Learning to Debias for Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462919)**Jiawei Chen, Hande Dong, Yang Qiu et al.*167 citations*
19. **[ConsisRec: Enhancing GNN for Social Recommendation via Consistent Neighbor Aggregation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463028)**Liangwei Yang, Zhiwei Liu, Yingtong Dou et al.*154 citations*
20. **[Learning Passage Impacts for Inverted Indexes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463030)**Antonio Mallia, Omar Khattab, Torsten Suel et al.*152 citations*
21. **[Augmenting Sequential Recommendation with Pseudo-Prior Items via Reversely Pre-training Transformer ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463036)**Zhiwei Liu, Ziwei Fan, Yu Wang et al.*140 citations*
22. **[Lighter and Better: Low-Rank Decomposed Self-Attention Networks for Next-Item Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462978)**Xinyan Fan, Zheng Liu, Jianxun Lian et al.*140 citations*
23. **[Towards Personalized Fairness based on Causal Notion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462966)**Yunqi Li, Hanxiong Chen, Shuyuan Xu et al.*139 citations*
24. **[The World is Binary: Contrastive Learning for Denoising Next Basket Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462836)**Yuqi Qin, Pengfei Wang, Chenliang Li*136 citations*
25. **[Unified Conversational Recommendation Policy Learning via Graph-based Reinforcement Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462913)**Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Fei Sun et al.*131 citations*

[See all 382 papers in SIGIR 2021 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/2021/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (2)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[SPLADE: Sparse Lexical and Expansion Model for First Stage Ranking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/formal-2021-splade-sparse-lexical-expansion/) [International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/)**Thibault Formal, Benjamin Piwowarski, Stéphane Clinchant*2021 · 511 citations*
2. **[Efficiently Teaching an Effective Dense Retriever with Balanced Topic Aware Sampling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hofstatter-2021-efficiently-teaching-effective-dense-retriever/) [International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/)**Sebastian Hofstatter, Sheng-Chieh Lin, Jheng-Hong Yang, et al.*2021 · 426 citations*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Information retrieval & search (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Benjamin Piwowarski**1 work here · 511 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-piwowarski/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jimmy Lin**1 work here · 426 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jimmy-lin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sebastian Hofstatter**1 work here · 426 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-hofstatter/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sheng-Chieh Lin**1 work here · 426 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sheng-chieh-lin/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🔬**Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · [🎓**TU Wien** Vienna · Austria 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tu-wien/) · [🎓**University of Waterloo** Waterloo · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/) · [🎓**Sorbonne Université** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sorbonne-universite/) · [🔬**LIP6** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/lip6/)

works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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