On Synthetic Data Strategies for Domain-Specific Generative Retrieval (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Generative retrieval models can be used to generate ranked lists of potentially relevant document identifiers for a user query. |
| Approach: | They propose a synthetic data generation strategy for a two-stage training framework that focuses on learning to decode document identifiers from queries and a strategy for mining hard negatives based on initial model's predictions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate ranked lists of potentially relevant document identifiers for a user query and then refine ranking through preference learning. |
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