4 papers
GEM: A Generative Embedding Model Bridging Reasoning and Retrieval
Zhili Shen, Craig Macdonald
Modern LLMs excel at reasoning and instruction following, enabling users to express complex and diverse information needs. However, conventional retrievers largely rely on surface-…
Millions of -s: Extending GraphRAG to Millions of Documents
Zhili Shen, Chenxin Diao, Pascual Merita +2
Recent studies have explored graph-based approaches to retrieval-augmented generation, leveraging structured or semi-structured information -- such as entities and their relations…
GeAR: Graph-enhanced Agent for Retrieval-augmented Generation
Zhili Shen, Chenxin Diao, Pavlos Vougiouklis +12
Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) relies on effective retrieval capabilities, yet traditional sparse and dense retrievers inherently struggle with multi-hop retrieval scenarios.…
Improving Retrieval-augmented Text-to-SQL with AST-based Ranking and Schema Pruning
Zhili Shen, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Chenxin Diao +3
We focus on Text-to-SQL semantic parsing from the perspective of retrieval-augmented generation. Motivated by challenges related to the size of commercial database schemata and the…