IR2: Information Regularization for Information Retrieval

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Auteurs principaux: Wang, Jianyou, Wang, Kaicheng, Wang, Xiaoyue, Cao, Weili, Paturi, Ramamohan, Bergen, Leon
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Publié: 2024
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author Wang, Jianyou
Wang, Kaicheng
Wang, Xiaoyue
Cao, Weili
Paturi, Ramamohan
Bergen, Leon
author_facet Wang, Jianyou
Wang, Kaicheng
Wang, Xiaoyue
Cao, Weili
Paturi, Ramamohan
Bergen, Leon
contents Effective information retrieval (IR) in settings with limited training data, particularly for complex queries, remains a challenging task. This paper introduces IR2, Information Regularization for Information Retrieval, a technique for reducing overfitting during synthetic data generation. This approach, representing a novel application of regularization techniques in synthetic data creation for IR, is tested on three recent IR tasks characterized by complex queries: DORIS-MAE, ArguAna, and WhatsThatBook. Experimental results indicate that our regularization techniques not only outperform previous synthetic query generation methods on the tasks considered but also reduce cost by up to 50%. Furthermore, this paper categorizes and explores three regularization methods at different stages of the query synthesis pipeline-input, prompt, and output-each offering varying degrees of performance improvement compared to models where no regularization is applied. This provides a systematic approach for optimizing synthetic data generation in data-limited, complex-query IR scenarios. All code, prompts and synthetic data are available at https://github.com/Info-Regularization/Information-Regularization.
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spellingShingle IR2: Information Regularization for Information Retrieval
Wang, Jianyou
Wang, Kaicheng
Wang, Xiaoyue
Cao, Weili
Paturi, Ramamohan
Bergen, Leon
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Effective information retrieval (IR) in settings with limited training data, particularly for complex queries, remains a challenging task. This paper introduces IR2, Information Regularization for Information Retrieval, a technique for reducing overfitting during synthetic data generation. This approach, representing a novel application of regularization techniques in synthetic data creation for IR, is tested on three recent IR tasks characterized by complex queries: DORIS-MAE, ArguAna, and WhatsThatBook. Experimental results indicate that our regularization techniques not only outperform previous synthetic query generation methods on the tasks considered but also reduce cost by up to 50%. Furthermore, this paper categorizes and explores three regularization methods at different stages of the query synthesis pipeline-input, prompt, and output-each offering varying degrees of performance improvement compared to models where no regularization is applied. This provides a systematic approach for optimizing synthetic data generation in data-limited, complex-query IR scenarios. All code, prompts and synthetic data are available at https://github.com/Info-Regularization/Information-Regularization.
title IR2: Information Regularization for Information Retrieval
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16200