| 2025 | ACL | EcomScriptBench: A Multi-task Benchmark for E-commerce Script Planning via Step-wise Intention-Driven Product Association. | Weiqi Wang, Limeng Cui, Xin Liu, Sreyashi Nag, Wenju Xu, Chen Luo, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Yang Li, Hansu Gu, Hui Liu, Changlong Yu, Jiaxin Bai, Yifan Gao, Haiyang Zhang, Qi He, Shuiwang Ji, Yangqiu Song |
| 2025 | NAACL | Learning with Less: Knowledge Distillation from Large Language Models via Unlabeled Data. | Juanhui Li, Sreyashi Nag, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Limeng Cui, Hansu Gu, Suhang Wang, Qi He, Jiliang Tang |
| 2024 | CIKM | REAPER: Reasoning based Retrieval Planning for Complex RAG Systems. | Ashutosh Joshi, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Samarth Varshney, Sreyashi Nag, Shrivats Agrawal, Juhi Naik |
| 2024 | ICTIR | Target Span Detection for Implicit Harmful Content. | Nazanin Jafari, James Allan, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar |
| 2024 | ICWSM | MultiFOLD: Multi-source Domain Adaption for Offensive Language Detection. | Aym Arango, Parisa Kaghazgaran, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Vanessa Murdock, C. J. Lee |
| 2024 | WWW | Scalable and Effective Generative Information Retrieval. | Hansi Zeng, Chen Luo, Bowen Jin, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Tianxin Wei, Hamed Zamani |
| 2023 | EACL | AutoTriggER: Label-Efficient and Robust Named Entity Recognition with Auxiliary Trigger Extraction. | Dong-Ho Lee, Ravi Kiran Selvam, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Bill Yuchen Lin, Fred Morstatter, Jay Pujara, Elizabeth Boschee, James Allan, Xiang Ren |
| 2023 | ICTIR | Hierarchical Transformer-based Query by Multiple Documents. | Zhiqi Huang, Shahrzad Naseri, Hamed R. Bonab, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan |
| 2023 | SIGIR | Searching for Products in Virtual Reality: Understanding the Impact of Context and Result Presentation on User Experience. | Austin R. Ward, Sandeep Avula, Hao Fei Cheng, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Vanessa Murdock, Eugene Agichtein |
| 2022 | ICWSM | Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Hate Speech Detection Using a Data Augmentation Approach. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Vanessa Murdock |
| 2021 | ACL | Corpus-Level Evaluation for Event QA: The IndiaPoliceEvents Corpus Covering the 2002 Gujarat Violence. | Andrew Halterman, Katherine A. Keith, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Brendan O'Connor |
| 2021 | CIKM | Mixed Attention Transformer for Leveraging Word-Level Knowledge to Neural Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval. | Zhiqi Huang, Hamed R. Bonab, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan |
| 2021 | SIGIR | Utility of Missing Concepts in Query-biased Summarization. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Felipe Moraes, Jiepu Jiang, James Allan |
| 2020 | ICTIR | Search Result Diversification with Guarantee of Topic Proportionality. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Raghavendra Addanki, Ali Montazeralghaem, Soumyabrata Pal, James Allan |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Training Effective Neural CLIR by Bridging the Translation Gap. | Hamed R. Bonab, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Query by Example for Cross-Lingual Event Retrieval. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan |
| 2019 | ACL | A Multi-Task Architecture on Relevance-based Neural Query Translation. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Hamed R. Bonab, James Allan |
| 2019 | ICTIR | SearchIE: A Retrieval Approach for Information Extraction. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan |
| 2019 | ICTIR | Sentence Retrieval for Entity List Extraction with a Seed, Context, and Topic. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, John Foley, Liu Yang, James Allan |
| 2018 | CHIIR | Term Relevance Feedback for Contextual Named Entity Retrieval. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, John Foley, James Allan |
| 2018 | SIGMOD | SQuID: Semantic Similarity-Aware Query Intent Discovery. | Anna Fariha, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Alexandra Meliou |
| 2015 | AIST | Analysis of the Adaptive Nature of Collaborative Filtering Techniques in Dynamic Environment. | Khaleda Akhter, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar |
| 2015 | AIST | Approximating Social Ties Based on Call Logs: Whom Should We Prioritize? | Mohammad Erfan, Alim Ul Gias, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Kazi Sakib |
| 2015 | AIST | User Similarity Computation for Collaborative Filtering Using Dynamic Implicit Trust. | Falguni Roy, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Mahamudul Hasan |
| 2015 | AIST | Similarity Aggregation for Collaborative Filtering. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Mahamudul Hasan, Masum Billal, Dmitry I. Ignatov |
| 2014 | EANN | A New User Similarity Computation Method for Collaborative Filtering Using Artificial Neural Network. | Noman Bin Mannan, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Najeeb Elahi |
| 2013 | IIWAS | Personalized Query Expansion for Web Search Using Social Keywords. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Md. Anowarul Abedin, A. H. M. Sofi Ullah, Abdullah Al-Mamun |
| 2012 | AINA | Integration of Novel Image Based Features into Markov Random Field Model for Information Retrieval. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Mosaddek Hossain Kamal |