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Making Large Language Models Efficient Dense Retrievers
Yibin Lei, Shwai He, Ang Li +1
Recent work has shown that directly fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for dense retrieval yields strong performance, but their substantial parameter counts make them computa…
Milco: Learned Sparse Retrieval Across Languages via a Multilingual Connector
Thong Nguyen, Yibin Lei, Jia-Huei Ju +2
Learned Sparse Retrieval (LSR) combines the efficiency of bi-encoders with the transparency of lexical matching, but existing approaches struggle to scale beyond English. We introd…
SERVAL: Surprisingly Effective Zero-Shot Visual Document Retrieval Powered by Large Vision and Language Models
Thong Nguyen, Yibin Lei, Jia-Huei Ju +1
Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) typically operates as text-to-image retrieval using specialized bi-encoders trained to directly embed document images. We revisit a zero-shot genera…
ThinkQE: Query Expansion via an Evolving Thinking Process
Yibin Lei, Tao Shen, Andrew Yates
Effective query expansion for web search benefits from promoting both exploration and result diversity to capture multiple interpretations and facets of a query. While recent LLM-b…
Corpus-Steered Query Expansion with Large Language Models
Yibin Lei, Yu Cao, Tianyi Zhou +2
Recent studies demonstrate that query expansions generated by large language models (LLMs) can considerably enhance information retrieval systems by generating hypothetical documen…
Unsupervised Dense Retrieval with Relevance-Aware Contrastive Pre-Training
Yibin Lei, Liang Ding, Yu Cao +3
Dense retrievers have achieved impressive performance, but their demand for abundant training data limits their application scenarios. Contrastive pre-training, which constructs ps…