Manveer Singh Tamber

PhD student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Visiting Researcher, ServiceNow Inc

Joined

June 2024

Names

Manveer Singh Tamber (Preferred)

Emails

****@uwaterloo.ca (Confirmed)

****@servicenow.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Computer Science, University of Waterloo (cs.uwaterloo.ca)

2023 – 2028

Visiting Researcher

ServiceNow Inc (servicenow.com)

2026 – 2026

Intern

Vectara (vectara.com)

2024 – 2025

Undergrad student

Computer Science, University of Waterloo (cs.uwaterloo.ca)

2019 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Jimmy Lin

2023 – Present

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Conventional Contrastive Learning Often Falls Short: Improving Dense Retrieval with Cross-Encoder Listwise Distillation and Synthetic Data
Manveer Singh Tamber, Suleman Kazi, Vivek Sourabh, Jimmy Lin
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Benchmarking LLM Faithfulness in RAG with Evolving Leaderboards
Manveer Singh Tamber, Forrest Sheng Bao, Chenyu Xu, Ge Luo, Suleman Kazi, Minseok Bae, Miaoran Li, Ofer Mendelevitch, Renyi Qu, Jimmy Lin
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Teaching Dense Retrieval Models to Specialize with Listwise Distillation and LLM Data Augmentation
Manveer Singh Tamber, Suleman Kazi, Vivek Sourabh, Jimmy Lin
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Can't Hide Behind the API: Stealing Black-Box Commercial Embedding Models
Manveer Singh Tamber, Jasper Xian, Jimmy Lin
- NAACL (Findings) 2025
- Readers: Everyone
FaithBench: A Diverse Hallucination Benchmark for Summarization by Modern LLMs
Forrest Sheng Bao, Miaoran Li, Renyi Qu, Ge Luo, Erana Wan, Yujia Tang, Weisi Fan, Manveer Singh Tamber, Suleman Kazi, Vivek Sourabh, Mike Qi, Ruixuan Tu, Chenyu Xu, Matthew Gonzales, Ofer Mendelevitch, Amin Ahmad
- NAACL (Short Papers) 2025
- Readers: Everyone
LiT and Lean: Distilling Listwise Rerankers Into Encoder-Decoder Models
Manveer Singh Tamber, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin
- ECIR (3) 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Illusions of Relevance: Using Content Injection Attacks to Deceive Retrievers, Rerankers, and LLM Judges
Manveer Singh Tamber, Jimmy Lin
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Pre-processing Matters! Improved Wikipedia Corpora for Open-Domain Question Answering
Manveer Singh Tamber, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin
- ECIR (3) 2023
- Readers: Everyone
PyGaggle: A Gaggle of Resources for Open-Domain Question Answering
Ronak Pradeep, Haonan Chen, Lingwei Gu, Manveer Singh Tamber, Jimmy Lin
- ECIR (3) 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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