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20152023
most citedOff the Beaten Path: Let's Replace Term-Based Retrieval with k-NN Search

24 citations · 118 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Chain-of-Skills: A Configurable Model for Open-domain Question Answering

Kaixin Ma, Hao Cheng, Yu Zhang +3

The retrieval model is an indispensable component for real-world knowledge-intensive tasks, e.g., open-domain question answering (ODQA). As separate retrieval skills are annotated…

cs.IR2023★ 3 cited

InPars-Light: Cost-Effective Unsupervised Training of Efficient Rankers

Leonid Boytsov, Preksha Patel, Vivek Sourabh +4

We carried out a reproducibility study of InPars, which is a method for unsupervised training of neural rankers (Bonifacio et al., 2022). As a by-product, we developed InPars-light…

cs.RO2022★ 1 cited

Knowledge-driven Scene Priors for Semantic Audio-Visual Embodied Navigation

Gyan Tatiya, Jonathan Francis, Luca Bondi +4

Generalisation to unseen contexts remains a challenge for embodied navigation agents. In the context of semantic audio-visual navigation (SAVi) tasks, the notion of generalisation…

cs.RO2022

Distribution-aware Goal Prediction and Conformant Model-based Planning for Safe Autonomous Driving

Jonathan Francis, Bingqing Chen, Weiran Yao +2

The feasibility of collecting a large amount of expert demonstrations has inspired growing research interests in learning-to-drive settings, where models learn by imitating the dri…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Open-domain Question Answering via Chain of Reasoning over Heterogeneous Knowledge

Kaixin Ma, Hao Cheng, Xiaodong Liu +2

We propose a novel open-domain question answering (ODQA) framework for answering single/multi-hop questions across heterogeneous knowledge sources. The key novelty of our method is…

cs.CL2022★ 7 cited

Coalescing Global and Local Information for Procedural Text Understanding

Kaixin Ma, Filip Ilievski, Jonathan Francis +2

Procedural text understanding is a challenging language reasoning task that requires models to track entity states across the development of a narrative. A complete procedural unde…