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Sebastian Mocanu

National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest

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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

IROH: Insightful Ranking Of Humor using Multi-Stage Hybrid Retrieval with Rationale-Distilled LLM Judges for JOKER 2026 Track Task 1 English

Our team, VANGUARD, presents IROH (Insightful Ranking of Humor), a three-stage retrieval system for JOKER Task 1 English at CLEF 2026, achieving first place on the leaderboard with 0.6347 MAP. Our pipeline combines hybrid sparse-dense retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, and a LoRA-adapted Large Language Model judge ens...

A. Mocanu, Sebastian Mocanu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică et al. · 0 citations