6 papers
Beyond Relevance: On the Relationship Between Retrieval and RAG Information Coverage
Saron Samuel, Alexander Martin, Eugene Yang +5
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems combine document retrieval with a generative model to address complex information seeking tasks like report generation. While the relat…
CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data
Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, Catherine Arnett +94
Language identification (LID) is a fundamental step in curating multilingual corpora. However, LID models still perform poorly for many languages, especially on the noisy and heter…
ColBERTSaR: Sparsified ColBERT Index via Product Quantization
Eugene Yang, Andrew Yates, Dawn Lawrie +3
While ColBERT is an effective neural retrieval architecture, it requires a heavy index structure to support candidate set retrieval based on approximated token embeddings, gatherin…
CoverageBench: Evaluating Information Coverage across Tasks and Domains
Saron Samuel, Andrew Yates, Dawn Lawrie +4
We wish to measure the information coverage of an ad hoc retrieval algorithm, that is, how much of the range of available relevant information is covered by the search results. Inf…
Does Reasoning Make Search More Fair? Comparing Fairness in Reasoning and Non-Reasoning Rerankers
Saron Samuel, Benjamin Van Durme, Eugene Yang
While reasoning rerankers, such as Rank1, have demonstrated strong abilities in improving ranking relevance, it is unclear how they perform on other retrieval qualities such as fai…
MMMORRF: Multimodal Multilingual Modularized Reciprocal Rank Fusion
Saron Samuel, Dan DeGenaro, Jimena Guallar-Blasco +13
Videos inherently contain multiple modalities, including visual events, text overlays, sounds, and speech, all of which are important for retrieval. However, state-of-the-art multi…