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cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Retrieval-augmented generation in multilingual settings

Nadezhda Chirkova, David Rau, Hervé Déjean +3

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has recently emerged as a promising solution for incorporating up-to-date or domain-specific knowledge into large language models (LLMs) and im…

cs.CL2024

BERGEN: A Benchmarking Library for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

David Rau, Hervé Déjean, Nadezhda Chirkova +4

Retrieval-Augmented Generation allows to enhance Large Language Models with external knowledge. In response to the recent popularity of generative LLMs, many RAG approaches have be…

cs.IR2024

SPLATE: Sparse Late Interaction Retrieval

Thibault Formal, Stéphane Clinchant, Hervé Déjean +1

The late interaction paradigm introduced with ColBERT stands out in the neural Information Retrieval space, offering a compelling effectiveness-efficiency trade-off across many ben…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

A Thorough Comparison of Cross-Encoders and LLMs for Reranking SPLADE

Hervé Déjean, Stéphane Clinchant, Thibault Formal

We present a comparative study between cross-encoder and LLMs rerankers in the context of re-ranking effective SPLADE retrievers. We conduct a large evaluation on TREC Deep Learnin…

cs.IR2024★ 6 cited

SPLADE-v3: New baselines for SPLADE

Carlos Lassance, Hervé Déjean, Thibault Formal +1

A companion to the release of the latest version of the SPLADE library. We describe changes to the training structure and present our latest series of models -- SPLADE-v3. We compa…