Passage-specific Prompt Tuning for Passage Reranking in Question Answering with Large Language Models

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Main Authors: Wu, Xuyang, Peng, Zhiyuan, Sai, Krishna Sravanthi Rajanala, Wu, Hsin-Tai, Fang, Yi
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author Wu, Xuyang
Peng, Zhiyuan
Sai, Krishna Sravanthi Rajanala
Wu, Hsin-Tai
Fang, Yi
author_facet Wu, Xuyang
Peng, Zhiyuan
Sai, Krishna Sravanthi Rajanala
Wu, Hsin-Tai
Fang, Yi
contents Effective passage retrieval and reranking methods have been widely utilized to identify suitable candidates in open-domain question answering tasks, recent studies have resorted to LLMs for reranking the retrieved passages by the log-likelihood of the question conditioned on each passage. Although these methods have demonstrated promising results, the performance is notably sensitive to the human-written prompt (or hard prompt), and fine-tuning LLMs can be computationally intensive and time-consuming. Furthermore, this approach limits the leverage of question-passage relevance pairs and passage-specific knowledge to enhance the ranking capabilities of LLMs. In this paper, we propose passage-specific prompt tuning for reranking in open-domain question answering (PSPT): a parameter-efficient method that fine-tunes learnable passage-specific soft prompts, incorporating passage-specific knowledge from a limited set of question-passage relevance pairs. The method involves ranking retrieved passages based on the log-likelihood of the model generating the question conditioned on each passage and the learned soft prompt. We conducted extensive experiments utilizing the Llama-2-chat-7B model across three publicly available open-domain question answering datasets and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
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spellingShingle Passage-specific Prompt Tuning for Passage Reranking in Question Answering with Large Language Models
Wu, Xuyang
Peng, Zhiyuan
Sai, Krishna Sravanthi Rajanala
Wu, Hsin-Tai
Fang, Yi
Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
Effective passage retrieval and reranking methods have been widely utilized to identify suitable candidates in open-domain question answering tasks, recent studies have resorted to LLMs for reranking the retrieved passages by the log-likelihood of the question conditioned on each passage. Although these methods have demonstrated promising results, the performance is notably sensitive to the human-written prompt (or hard prompt), and fine-tuning LLMs can be computationally intensive and time-consuming. Furthermore, this approach limits the leverage of question-passage relevance pairs and passage-specific knowledge to enhance the ranking capabilities of LLMs. In this paper, we propose passage-specific prompt tuning for reranking in open-domain question answering (PSPT): a parameter-efficient method that fine-tunes learnable passage-specific soft prompts, incorporating passage-specific knowledge from a limited set of question-passage relevance pairs. The method involves ranking retrieved passages based on the log-likelihood of the model generating the question conditioned on each passage and the learned soft prompt. We conducted extensive experiments utilizing the Llama-2-chat-7B model across three publicly available open-domain question answering datasets and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
title Passage-specific Prompt Tuning for Passage Reranking in Question Answering with Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20654