ExaRanker-Open: Synthetic Explanation for IR using Open-Source LLMs

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Auteurs principaux: Ferraretto, Fernando, Laitz, Thiago, Lotufo, Roberto, Nogueira, Rodrigo
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author Ferraretto, Fernando
Laitz, Thiago
Lotufo, Roberto
Nogueira, Rodrigo
author_facet Ferraretto, Fernando
Laitz, Thiago
Lotufo, Roberto
Nogueira, Rodrigo
contents ExaRanker recently introduced an approach to training information retrieval (IR) models, incorporating natural language explanations as additional labels. The method addresses the challenge of limited labeled examples, leading to improvements in the effectiveness of IR models. However, the initial results were based on proprietary language models such as GPT-3.5, which posed constraints on dataset size due to its cost and data privacy. In this paper, we introduce ExaRanker-Open, where we adapt and explore the use of open-source language models to generate explanations. The method has been tested using different LLMs and datasets sizes to better comprehend the effective contribution of data augmentation. Our findings reveal that incorporating explanations consistently enhances neural rankers, with benefits escalating as the LLM size increases. Notably, the data augmentation method proves advantageous even with large datasets, as evidenced by ExaRanker surpassing the target baseline by 0.6 nDCG@10 points in our study. To encourage further advancements by the research community, we have open-sourced both the code and datasets at https://github.com/unicamp-dl/ExaRanker.
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spellingShingle ExaRanker-Open: Synthetic Explanation for IR using Open-Source LLMs
Ferraretto, Fernando
Laitz, Thiago
Lotufo, Roberto
Nogueira, Rodrigo
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
ExaRanker recently introduced an approach to training information retrieval (IR) models, incorporating natural language explanations as additional labels. The method addresses the challenge of limited labeled examples, leading to improvements in the effectiveness of IR models. However, the initial results were based on proprietary language models such as GPT-3.5, which posed constraints on dataset size due to its cost and data privacy. In this paper, we introduce ExaRanker-Open, where we adapt and explore the use of open-source language models to generate explanations. The method has been tested using different LLMs and datasets sizes to better comprehend the effective contribution of data augmentation. Our findings reveal that incorporating explanations consistently enhances neural rankers, with benefits escalating as the LLM size increases. Notably, the data augmentation method proves advantageous even with large datasets, as evidenced by ExaRanker surpassing the target baseline by 0.6 nDCG@10 points in our study. To encourage further advancements by the research community, we have open-sourced both the code and datasets at https://github.com/unicamp-dl/ExaRanker.
title ExaRanker-Open: Synthetic Explanation for IR using Open-Source LLMs
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06334