RaFe: Ranking Feedback Improves Query Rewriting for RAG

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Autori principali: Mao, Shengyu, Jiang, Yong, Chen, Boli, Li, Xiao, Wang, Peng, Wang, Xinyu, Xie, Pengjun, Huang, Fei, Chen, Huajun, Zhang, Ningyu
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Mao, Shengyu
Jiang, Yong
Chen, Boli
Li, Xiao
Wang, Peng
Wang, Xinyu
Xie, Pengjun
Huang, Fei
Chen, Huajun
Zhang, Ningyu
author_facet Mao, Shengyu
Jiang, Yong
Chen, Boli
Li, Xiao
Wang, Peng
Wang, Xinyu
Xie, Pengjun
Huang, Fei
Chen, Huajun
Zhang, Ningyu
contents As Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG) techniques have evolved, query rewriting has been widely incorporated into the RAG system for downstream tasks like open-domain QA. Many works have attempted to utilize small models with reinforcement learning rather than costly LLMs to improve query rewriting. However, current methods require annotations (e.g., labeled relevant documents or downstream answers) or predesigned rewards for feedback, which lack generalization, and fail to utilize signals tailored for query rewriting. In this paper, we propose ours, a framework for training query rewriting models free of annotations. By leveraging a publicly available reranker, ours~provides feedback aligned well with the rewriting objectives. Experimental results demonstrate that ours~can obtain better performance than baselines.
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spellingShingle RaFe: Ranking Feedback Improves Query Rewriting for RAG
Mao, Shengyu
Jiang, Yong
Chen, Boli
Li, Xiao
Wang, Peng
Wang, Xinyu
Xie, Pengjun
Huang, Fei
Chen, Huajun
Zhang, Ningyu
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
As Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG) techniques have evolved, query rewriting has been widely incorporated into the RAG system for downstream tasks like open-domain QA. Many works have attempted to utilize small models with reinforcement learning rather than costly LLMs to improve query rewriting. However, current methods require annotations (e.g., labeled relevant documents or downstream answers) or predesigned rewards for feedback, which lack generalization, and fail to utilize signals tailored for query rewriting. In this paper, we propose ours, a framework for training query rewriting models free of annotations. By leveraging a publicly available reranker, ours~provides feedback aligned well with the rewriting objectives. Experimental results demonstrate that ours~can obtain better performance than baselines.
title RaFe: Ranking Feedback Improves Query Rewriting for RAG
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14431