3 papers
cs.IR2025
Revela: Dense Retriever Learning via Language Modeling
Fengyu Cai, Tong Chen, Xinran Zhao +5
Dense retrievers play a vital role in accessing external and specialized knowledge to augment language models (LMs). Training dense retrievers typically requires annotated query-do…
cs.IR2024
: Enhancing Retriever Generalization for Scientific Domain through Complementary Granularity
Fengyu Cai, Xinran Zhao, Tong Chen +4
Recent studies show the growing significance of document retrieval in the generation of LLMs, i.e., RAG, within the scientific domain by bridging their knowledge gap. However, dens…
cs.IR2024
Beyond Relevance: Evaluate and Improve Retrievers on Perspective Awareness
Xinran Zhao, Tong Chen, Sihao Chen +2
The task of Information Retrieval (IR) requires a system to identify relevant documents based on users' information needs. In real-world scenarios, retrievers are expected to not o…