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Main Authors: Sun, Si, Zhang, Hanqing, Liu, Zhiyuan, Bao, Jie, Song, Dawei
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01999
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author Sun, Si
Zhang, Hanqing
Liu, Zhiyuan
Bao, Jie
Song, Dawei
author_facet Sun, Si
Zhang, Hanqing
Liu, Zhiyuan
Bao, Jie
Song, Dawei
contents Dense Retrieval (DR) is now considered as a promising tool to enhance the memorization capacity of Large Language Models (LLM) such as GPT3 and GPT-4 by incorporating external memories. However, due to the paradigm discrepancy between text generation of LLM and DR, it is still an open challenge to integrate the retrieval and generation tasks in a shared LLM. In this paper, we propose an efficient LLM-Oriented Retrieval Tuner, namely LMORT, which decouples DR capacity from base LLM and non-invasively coordinates the optimally aligned and uniform layers of the LLM towards a unified DR space, achieving an efficient and effective DR without tuning the LLM itself. The extensive experiments on six BEIR datasets show that our approach could achieve competitive zero-shot retrieval performance compared to a range of strong DR models while maintaining the generation ability of LLM.
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spellingShingle LLM-Oriented Retrieval Tuner
Sun, Si
Zhang, Hanqing
Liu, Zhiyuan
Bao, Jie
Song, Dawei
Computation and Language
Dense Retrieval (DR) is now considered as a promising tool to enhance the memorization capacity of Large Language Models (LLM) such as GPT3 and GPT-4 by incorporating external memories. However, due to the paradigm discrepancy between text generation of LLM and DR, it is still an open challenge to integrate the retrieval and generation tasks in a shared LLM. In this paper, we propose an efficient LLM-Oriented Retrieval Tuner, namely LMORT, which decouples DR capacity from base LLM and non-invasively coordinates the optimally aligned and uniform layers of the LLM towards a unified DR space, achieving an efficient and effective DR without tuning the LLM itself. The extensive experiments on six BEIR datasets show that our approach could achieve competitive zero-shot retrieval performance compared to a range of strong DR models while maintaining the generation ability of LLM.
title LLM-Oriented Retrieval Tuner
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01999