BRIEF: Bridging Retrieval and Inference for Multi-hop Reasoning via Compression (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to augment language models with external knowledge but they are limited by static nature of pre-training data. |
| Approach: | They propose a lightweight approach that compresses retrieved documents into highly dense textual summaries to integrate into in-context RAG. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach reduces latency and costs while achieving high performance in open-domain questions. |
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