Failing Forward: Understanding Query Failure in Retrieval, Judgment, and Generation

Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, Negar Arabzadeh, Mohammad Hossein Saliminabi, Dimitrios Androutsos, Morteza Zihayat, Ebrahim Bagheri
January 2026
Type
Conference paper
Publication
Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Information Retrieval Query Failure Large Language Models Evaluation
Morteza Zihayat
Morteza Zihayat
Principal Investigator

Dr. Morteza Zihayat is a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Human-Centered AI and Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science. He also holds appointments as Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo (Management Sciences) and IBM Faculty Fellow at IBM Centre for Advanced Studies. He is the Director of the Human-Centered Machine Intelligence Lab.