Papers with open-domain question answering tasks
SPARTA: Efficient Open-Domain Question Answering via Sparse Transformer Matching Retrieval (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | SPARTA is a novel neural retrieval method for open-domain question answering . it learns a sparse representation that can be efficiently implemented as an Inverted Index . |
| Approach: | They propose a method that learns a sparse representation that can be implemented as an Inverted Index. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results on 4 open-domain question answering tasks and 11 retrieval question answering (ReQA) tasks. |
Adaptive Contrastive Decoding in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Handling Noisy Contexts (2024.findings-emnlp)
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Youna Kim, Hyuhng Joon Kim, Cheonbok Park, Choonghyun Park, Hyunsoo Cho, Junyeob Kim, Kang Min Yoo, Sang-goo Lee, Taeuk Kim
| Challenge: | Recent research has been developed to amplify contextual knowledge over parametric knowledge of large language models (LLMs) in knowledge-intensive tasks such as open-domain question-answering . |
| Approach: | They propose to amplify contextual knowledge over parametric knowledge of large language models (LLMs) by contrastive decoding to leverage contextual influence effectively. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves open-domain question answering tasks especially in robustness by remaining undistracted by noisy contexts in retrieval-augmented generation. |
RE-RAG: Improving Open-Domain QA Performance and Interpretability with Relevance Estimator in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to retrieval augmented generation (RAG) are based on parametric knowledge and external knowledge. |
| Approach: | They propose a weakly supervised method for training a relevance estimator (RE) that provides relative relevance between contexts as previous rerankers did, and provides confidence, which can be used to classify whether given context is useful for answering the given question. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves previously unreferenced large language models and can be trained with a small generator without labels for correct contexts. |