From matching to generation: A survey on generative information retrieval

X Li, J **, Y Zhou, Y Zhang, P Zhang, Y Zhu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Information Retrieval (IR) systems are crucial tools for users to access information, widely
applied in scenarios like search engines, question answering, and recommendation …

Generative retrieval as multi-vector dense retrieval

S Wu, W Wei, M Zhang, Z Chen, J Ma, Z Ren… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
For a given query generative retrieval generates identifiers of relevant documents in an end-
to-end manner using a sequence-to-sequence architecture. The relation between …

Focused large language models are stable many-shot learners

P Yuan, S Feng, Y Li, X Wang, Y Zhang, C Tan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In-Context Learning (ICL) enables large language models (LLMs) to achieve rapid task
adaptation by learning from demonstrations. With the increase in available context length of …

Generative retrieval with preference optimization for e-commerce search

M Li, H Wang, Z Chen, G Nie, Y Qiu, G Tang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Generative retrieval introduces a groundbreaking paradigm to document retrieval by directly
generating the identifier of a pertinent document in response to a specific query. This …

Poor-supervised evaluation for superllm via mutual consistency

P Yuan, S Feng, Y Li, X Wang, B Pan, H Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The guidance from capability evaluations has greatly propelled the progress of both human
society and Artificial Intelligence. However, as LLMs evolve, it becomes challenging to …

Breaking the Hourglass Phenomenon of Residual Quantization: Enhancing the Upper Bound of Generative Retrieval

Z Kuai, Z Chen, H Wang, M Li, D Miao, B Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Generative retrieval (GR) has emerged as a transformative paradigm in search and
recommender systems, leveraging numeric-based identifier representations to enhance …