4 papers
Attributing Response to Context: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Driven Mechanistic Study of Context Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Ruizhe Li, Chen Chen, Yuchen Hu +3
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) leverages large language models (LLMs) combined with external contexts to enhance the accuracy and reliability of generated responses. However,…
Clarifying the Path to User Satisfaction: An Investigation into Clarification Usefulness
Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Mohammad Aliannejadi +2
Clarifying questions are an integral component of modern information retrieval systems, directly impacting user satisfaction and overall system performance. Poorly formulated quest…
Self-Correcting Large Language Models: Generation vs. Multiple Choice
Hossein A. Rahmani, Satyapriya Krishna, Xi Wang +2
Large language models have recently demonstrated remarkable abilities to self-correct their responses through iterative refinement, often referred to as self-consistency or self-re…
SynDL: A Large-Scale Synthetic Test Collection for Passage Retrieval
Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Emine Yilmaz +3
Large-scale test collections play a crucial role in Information Retrieval (IR) research. However, according to the Cranfield paradigm and the research into publicly available datas…