Can we Retrieve Everything All at Once? ARM: An Alignment-Oriented LLM-based Retrieval Method (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing RAG solutions address the alignment problem in a limited manner . ARM explores relationships among data objects, enabling a retrieve-all-at-once solution for complex queries . |
| Approach: | Experimental results show that ARM improves alignment of open-domain questions with available data . ARM explores relationships among data objects, enabling a retrieve-all-at-once solution for complex queries. |
| Outcome: | Experimental results show that ARM outperforms existing RAG methods on complex open-domain questions. |
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