Time Title Where
8:30-9:00 Registration (Maria Montesorigebouw Building) MM00.029
9:00-9:15 Opening MM00.029
9:15-10:15 Keynote: Thomas Demeester
Multimodal Health Data: From Representation to Causal Understanding
MM00.029
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break Grand Cafe Iris
10:45-12:00 Oral Session #1 MM00.029
10:45 Gijs Hendriksen Radboud University Selective Search as a First-Stage Retriever
10:55 Yumeng Wang Leiden University How role-play shapes relevance judgment in zero-shot LLM rankers
11:05 Bulat Khaertdinov Maastricht University VisualReF: Interactive Image Search Prototype with Visual Relevance Feedback
11:15 Huy-Son Nguyen TU Delft A Reproducibility Study of Product-side Fairness in Bundle Recommendation
11:25 Junchen Fu University of Glasgow Advancing Efficient and Effective Adaptation of Multimodal Foundation
Models for Recommender Systems
11:35 Mohanna Hoveyda Radboud University Adaptive Orchestration of Modular Generative Information Access Systems
11:45 Jaap Kamps University of Amsterdam Context Embeddings for Efficient Answer Generation in Retrieval-Augmented
Generation
12:00-13:00 Lunch Grand Cafe Iris
13:00-14:00 Keynote: Asia Biega
From regulations to implementations: Building information access systems in the public interest
MM00.029
14:00-15:00 Oral Session #2 MM00.029
14:00 Iva Gornishka &
Laurens Samson
Amsterdam Municipality Evaluating LLMs' environmental impact, performance and alignment with
societal values
14:10 Farrukh Baratov Leiden University Breaking Bureaucracy: Benchmarking open-source LLMs on legal document
review
14:20 Jens Leysen University of Antwerp What Data is Really Necessary? A Feasibility Study of Inference Data
Minimization for Recommender Systems
14:30 Lifeng Han Leiden University, LUMC Summarisation of Clinical Documents using Perspective-Aware Iterative
Self-Prompting (PA-ISP) with LLMs
14:40 Heydar Soudani Radboud University Why Uncertainty Estimation Methods Fall Short in RAG: An Axiomatic Analysis
14:50 Len Feremans University of Antwerp Scalable Evaluation of Rule-Based Recommender Systems: Algorithms and
Benchmarks
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break Grand Cafe Iris
15:30-16:00 Oral Session #3 MM00.029
15:30 Alain Starke University of Amsterdam Why we still need user studies: Using Energy Recommender System Research
to Support Behavioral Change
15:40 Bruno Nadalic Sotic University of Amsterdam What Makes a User Click on a News Item? Understanding News Values of
Visual Content in News Recommendation
15:50 Thorsten Krause Radboud University A Non-Parametric Choice Model That Learns How Users Choose Between
Recommended Options
16:00-16:05 Closing Session MM00.029
16:05-17:00 Poster Session Grand Cafe Iris
Mert Yazan Hogeschool van
Amsterdam
The New Paradigm of Information Search: LLMs and Web Search in Tandem
I-Fan Lin Leiden University TWIST: Training-free and Label-free Short Text Clustering through Iterative Vector
Updating with LLMs
Juan Pablo Bascur Leiden University Use of diverse data sources to control which topics emerge in a science map
Jujia Zhao Leiden University Unifying Search and Recommendation in LLMs via Gradient Multi-Subspace Tuning
Faegheh Hasibi Radboud University FACE: A Fine-grained Reference Free Evaluator for Conversational Recommender Systems
Daria Alexander Radboud University In a Few Words: Comparing Weak Supervision and LLMs for Short Query Intent
Classification
Djoerd Hiemstra Radboud University Score-Fitted Indexes and Constant Length Indexes for Information Retrieval
Harrie Oosterhuis Radboud University Optimizing Compound Retrieval Systems
Heydar Soudani Radboud University Uncertainty Quantification for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning
Oscar Ramirez Radboud University Epistemic Click Models
Martan van der Straaten Radboud University,
Spinque
Efficient Dutch Query-Focussed Summarization for Domain-Specific Data
Maik Larooij University of Amsterdam A collection of FAIR Dutch Freedom of Information Act documents
Yougang Lyu University of Amsterdam DeepShop: A Benchmark for Deep Research Shopping Agents
16:30-18:00 Drinks (Overlap with Poster Session) Grand Cafe Iris

Oral presentations each have 8 minutes for their presentation.