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Main Authors: Wang, Zheng, Teo, Shu Xian, Ouyang, Jieer, Xu, Yongjun, Shi, Wei
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16420
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author Wang, Zheng
Teo, Shu Xian
Ouyang, Jieer
Xu, Yongjun
Shi, Wei
author_facet Wang, Zheng
Teo, Shu Xian
Ouyang, Jieer
Xu, Yongjun
Shi, Wei
contents Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by retrieving relevant memories from an external database. However, existing RAG methods typically organize all memories in a whole database, potentially limiting focus on crucial memories and introducing noise. In this paper, we introduce a multiple partition paradigm for RAG (called M-RAG), where each database partition serves as a basic unit for RAG execution. Based on this paradigm, we propose a novel framework that leverages LLMs with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to optimize different language generation tasks explicitly. Through comprehensive experiments conducted on seven datasets, spanning three language generation tasks and involving three distinct language model architectures, we confirm that M-RAG consistently outperforms various baseline methods, achieving improvements of 11%, 8%, and 12% for text summarization, machine translation, and dialogue generation, respectively.
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spellingShingle M-RAG: Reinforcing Large Language Model Performance through Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Multiple Partitions
Wang, Zheng
Teo, Shu Xian
Ouyang, Jieer
Xu, Yongjun
Shi, Wei
Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by retrieving relevant memories from an external database. However, existing RAG methods typically organize all memories in a whole database, potentially limiting focus on crucial memories and introducing noise. In this paper, we introduce a multiple partition paradigm for RAG (called M-RAG), where each database partition serves as a basic unit for RAG execution. Based on this paradigm, we propose a novel framework that leverages LLMs with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to optimize different language generation tasks explicitly. Through comprehensive experiments conducted on seven datasets, spanning three language generation tasks and involving three distinct language model architectures, we confirm that M-RAG consistently outperforms various baseline methods, achieving improvements of 11%, 8%, and 12% for text summarization, machine translation, and dialogue generation, respectively.
title M-RAG: Reinforcing Large Language Model Performance through Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Multiple Partitions
topic Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16420