| Challenge: | Generatively Augmented Sentence Encoding variates the input text by paraphrasing, summarizing, or extracting keywords, followed by pooling the original and synthetic embeddings. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free approach to improve sentence embeddings by applying generative text models for data augmentation at inference time. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach does not require access to model parameters or computational resources typically required for fine-tuning state-of-the-art models. |
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