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# SIGIR 2021: all accepted papers

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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*
26. **[Learning to Warm Up Cold Item Embeddings for Cold-start Recommendation with Meta Scaling and Shifting Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462843)**Yongchun Zhu, Ruobing Xie, Fuzhen Zhuang et al.*130 citations*
27. **[Counterfactual Data-Augmented Sequential Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462855)**Zhenlei Wang, Jingsen Zhang, Hongteng Xu et al.*128 citations*
28. **[Transfer-Meta Framework for Cross-domain Recommendation to Cold-Start Users ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463010)**Yongchun Zhu, Kaikai Ge, Fuzhen Zhuang et al.*123 citations*
29. **[Decoupling Representation Learning and Classification for GNN-based Anomaly Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462944)**Yanling Wang, Jing Zhang, Shasha Guo et al.*120 citations*
30. **[CauseRec: Counterfactual User Sequence Synthesis for Sequential Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462908)**Shengyu Zhang, Dong Yao, Zhou Li Zhao et al.*118 citations*
31. **[Bootstrapping User and Item Representations for One-Class Collaborative Filtering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462935)**Dongha Lee, SeongKu Kang, Hyunjun Ju et al.*116 citations*
32. **[Enhanced Graph Learning for Collaborative Filtering via Mutual Information Maximization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462928)**Yonghui Yang, Le Wu, Richang Hong et al.*111 citations*
33. **[Elliot: A Comprehensive and Rigorous Framework for Reproducible Recommender Systems Evaluation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463245)**Vito Walter Anelli, Alejandro Bellogín, Antonio Ferrara et al.*106 citations*
34. **[Tracing Knowledge State with Individual Cognition and Acquisition Estimation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462827)**Ting Long, Yunfei Liu, Jian Guo Shen et al.*102 citations*
35. **[DepressionNet: Learning Multi-modalities with User Post Summarization for Depression Detection on Social Media ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462938)**Hamad Zogan, Imran Razzak, Shoaib Jameel et al.*101 citations*
36. **[Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Code Retrieval and Summarization via Semantic-Preserving Transformations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462840)**Nghi D. Q. Bui, Yijun Yu, Lingxiao Jiang*98 citations*
37. **[LeCaRD: A Legal Case Retrieval Dataset for Chinese Law System ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463250)**Yixiao Ma, Yunqiu Shao, Yueyue Wu et al.*94 citations*
38. **[Relational Learning with Gated and Attentive Neighbor Aggregator for Few-Shot Knowledge Graph Completion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462925)**Guanglin Niu, Yang Li, Chengguang Tang et al.*92 citations*
39. **[Video Corpus Moment Retrieval with Contrastive Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462874)**Hao Zhang, Aixin Sun, Wei Jing et al.*91 citations*
40. **[Simplified Data Wrangling with ir_datasets ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463254)**Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Sergey Feldman et al.*88 citations*
41. **[Rumor Detection on Social Media with Event Augmentations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463001)**Zhenyu He, Ce Li, Fan Zhou et al.*85 citations*
42. **[TFROM ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462882)**Yao Wu, Jian Cao, Guandong Xu et al.*85 citations*
43. **[TILDE: Term Independent Likelihood moDEl for Passage Re-ranking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462922)**Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon*84 citations*
44. **[NeurJudge: A Circumstance-aware Neural Framework for Legal Judgment Prediction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462826)**Linan Yue, Qi Liu, Binbin Jin et al.*83 citations*
45. **[Category-aware Collaborative Sequential Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462832)**Renqin Cai, Jibang Wu, Aidan San et al.*80 citations*
46. **[Personalized News Recommendation with Knowledge-aware Interactive Matching ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462861)**Tao Qi, Fangzhao Wu, Chuhan Wu et al.*79 citations*
47. **[Few-Shot Conversational Dense Retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462856)**Shi Yu, Zhenghao Liu, Chenyan Xiong et al.*76 citations*
48. **[Fairness among New Items in Cold Start Recommender Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462948)**Ziwei Zhu, Jingu Kim, Trung Nguyen et al.*74 citations*
49. **[Comprehensive Linguistic-Visual Composition Network for Image Retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462967)**Haokun Wen, Xuemeng Song, Xin Yang et al.*71 citations*
50. **[MMConv: An Environment for Multimodal Conversational Search across Multiple Domains ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462970)**Lizi Liao, Le Hong Long, Zheng Zhang et al.*70 citations*
51. **[Computationally Efficient Optimization of Plackett-Luce Ranking Models for Relevance and Fairness ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462830)**Harrie Oosterhuis*68 citations*
52. **[One Chatbot Per Person: Creating Personalized Chatbots based on Implicit User Profiles ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462828)**Zhengyi Ma, Zhicheng Dou, Yutao Zhu et al.*67 citations*
53. **[Gazetteer Enhanced Named Entity Recognition for Code-Mixed Web Queries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463102)**Besnik Fetahu, Anjie Fang, Oleg Rokhlenko et al.*64 citations*
54. **[Should Graph Convolution Trust Neighbors? A Simple Causal Inference Method ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462971)**Fuli Feng, Weiran Huang, Xiangnan He et al.*64 citations*
55. **[Enhanced Doubly Robust Learning for Debiasing Post-Click Conversion Rate Estimation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462917)**Siyuan Guo, Lixin Zou, Yiding Liu et al.*62 citations*
56. **[Counterfactual Reward Modification for Streaming Recommendation with Delayed Feedback ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462892)**Xiao Zhang, Haonan Jia, Hanjing Su et al.*60 citations*
57. **[Social Recommendation with Implicit Social Influence ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463043)**Changhao Song, Bo Wang, Qinxue Jiang et al.*60 citations*
58. **[Temporal Augmented Graph Neural Networks for Session-Based Recommendations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463112)**Huachi Zhou, Qiaoyu Tan, Xiao Xia Huang et al.*60 citations*
59. **[Towards Multi-Modal Conversational Information Seeking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462806)**Yashar Deldjoo, Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani*60 citations*
60. **[Affective Dependency Graph for Sarcasm Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463061)**Chenwei Lou, Bin Liang, Lin Gui et al.*59 citations*
61. **[Structured Graph Convolutional Networks with Stochastic Masks for Recommender Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462868)**Huiyuan Chen, Lan Wang, Yusan Lin et al.*59 citations*
62. **[Towards an Online Empathetic Chatbot with Emotion Causes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463042)**Yanran Li, Ke Li, Hongke Ning et al.*56 citations*
63. **[Counterfactual Explanations for Neural Recommenders ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463005)**Khanh Hiep Tran, Azin Ghazimatin, Rishiraj Saha Roy*55 citations*
64. **[MS MARCO: Benchmarking Ranking Models in the Large-Data Regime ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462804)**Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yılmaz et al.*55 citations*
65. **[ReXPlug: Explainable Recommendation using Plug-and-Play Language Model ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462939)**Deepesh Hada, M. Vijaikumar, Shirish Shevade*55 citations*
66. **[Societal Biases in Retrieved Contents: Measurement Framework and Adversarial Mitigation of BERT Rankers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462949)**Navid Rekabsaz, Simone Kopeinik, Markus Schedl*55 citations*
67. **[TREC Deep Learning Track: Reusable Test Collections in the Large Data Regime ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463249)**Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yılmaz et al.*55 citations*
68. **[FedCT: Federated Collaborative Transfer for Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462825)**Shuchang Liu, Shuyuan Xu, Wenhui Yu et al.*53 citations*
69. **[Legal Judgment Prediction via Relational Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462931)**Dong Qian, Shuzi Niu*53 citations*
70. **[Dual Attention Transfer in Session-based Recommendation with Multi-dimensional Integration ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462866)**Chen Chen, Jie Guo, Bin Song*52 citations*
71. **[Joint Knowledge Pruning and Recurrent Graph Convolution for News Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462912)**裕美子 増田, Yuhao Yang, Xudong Ren et al.*52 citations*
72. **[Legal Judgment Prediction with Multi-Stage Case Representation Learning in the Real Court Setting ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462945)**Luyao Ma, Yating Zhang, Tianyi Wang et al.*52 citations*
73. **[One Person, One Model, One World ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462884)**Fajie Yuan, Guoxiao Zhang, Alexandros Karatzoglou et al.*52 citations*
74. **[Graph Pooling via Coarsened Graph Infomax ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463074)**Yunsheng Pang, Yunxiang Zhao, Dongsheng Li*50 citations*
75. **[Hierarchical Cross-Modal Graph Consistency Learning for Video-Text Retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462974)**Weike Jin, Zhou Li Zhao, Pengcheng Zhang et al.*50 citations*
76. **[LPF: A Language-Prior Feedback Objective Function for De-biased Visual Question Answering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462981)**Zujie Liang, Haifeng Hu, Jiayíng Zhu*50 citations*
77. **[Learning Graph Meta Embeddings for Cold-Start Ads in Click-Through Rate Prediction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462879)**Robin Wentao Ouyang, Xiuwu Zhang, Shukui Ren et al.*50 citations*
78. **[Sequential Recommendation for Cold-start Users with Meta Transitional Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463089)**Jianling Wang, Kaize Ding, James Caverlee*50 citations*
79. **[Heterogeneous Attention Network for Effective and Efficient Cross-modal Retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462924)**Tan Yu, Yi Yang, Yi Li et al.*49 citations*
80. **[The Winner Takes it All: Geographic Imbalance and Provider (Un)fairness in Educational Recommender Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463235)**Elizabeth Avery Gomez, Carlos Shui Zhang, Ludovico Boratto et al.*48 citations*
81. **[Towards Trustworthiness in the Context of Explainable Search ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462799)**Sayantan Polley, Rashmi Koparde, Akshaya Bindu Gowri et al.*48 citations*
82. **[Fight Fire with Fire: Towards Robust Recommender Systems via Adversarial Poisoning Training ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462914)**Chenwang Wu, Defu Lian, Yong Ge et al.*46 citations*
83. **[A Graph-Enhanced Click Model for Web Search ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462895)**Jianghao Lin, Weiwen Liu, Xinyi Dai et al.*45 citations*
84. **[AdsGNN: Behavior-Graph Augmented Relevance Modeling in Sponsored Search ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462926)**Chaozhuo Li, Bochen Pang, Yuming Liu et al.*45 citations*
85. **[ICAI-SR: Item Categorical Attribute Integrated Sequential Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463060)**Yuan Xu, Dongsheng Duan, Lingling Tong et al.*45 citations*
86. **[Learning to Ask Appropriate Questions in Conversational Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462839)**Xuhui Ren, Hongzhi Yin, Tong Chen et al.*45 citations*
87. **[Neural Graph Matching based Collaborative Filtering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462833)**Yixin Su, Rui Zhang, Sarah M. Erfani et al.*45 citations*
88. **[Inductive Representation Learning in Temporal Networks via Mining Neighborhood and Community Influences ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463052)**Meng Liu, Yong Liu*44 citations*
89. **[Tutorial on Fairness of Machine Learning in Recommender Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462814)**Yunqi Li, Yingqiang Ge, Yongfeng Zhang*44 citations*
90. **[Reinforcement Learning from Reformulations in Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462859)**Magdalena Kaiser, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Gerhard Weikum*43 citations*
91. **[Semi-Supervised Variational Reasoning for Medical Dialogue Generation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462921)**Dongdong Li, Zhaochun Ren, Pengjie Ren et al.*43 citations*
92. **[Cross-Batch Negative Sampling for Training Two-Tower Recommenders ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463032)**Jinpeng Wang, Jieming Zhu, Xiuqiang He*42 citations*
93. **[DyDiff-VAE: A Dynamic Variational Framework for Information Diffusion Prediction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462934)**Ruijie Wang, Zijie Huang, Shengzhong Liu et al.*42 citations*
94. **[FedCMR: Federated Cross-Modal Retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462989)**Linlin Zong, Qiujie Xie, Jiahui Zhou et al.*42 citations*
95. **[EXTRA: Explanation Ranking Datasets for Explainable Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463248)**Lei Li, Yongfeng Zhang, Li Chen*41 citations*
96. **[Enhancing Domain-Level and User-Level Adaptivity in Diversified Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462957)**Yile Liang, Tieyun Qian, Qing Li et al.*41 citations*
97. **[How Deep is your Learning: the DL-HARD Annotated Deep Learning Dataset ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3463262)**Iain Mackie, Jeff Dalton, Andrew Yates*41 citations*
98. **[Comparison-based Conversational Recommender System with Relative Bandit Feedback ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462920)**Zhihui Xie, Tong Yu, Canzhe Zhao et al.*40 citations*
99. **[Conversational Fashion Image Retrieval via Multiturn Natural Language Feedback ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462881)**Yifei Yuan, Wai Pang Lam*40 citations*
100. **[Make It Easy ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462870)**Congcong Ge, Xiaoze Liu, Lu Chen et al.*40 citations*

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