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Main Authors: Jia, Yanhao, Wu, Xinyi, Li, Hao, Zhang, Qinglin, Hu, Yuxiao, Zhao, Shuai, Fan, Wenqi
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05863
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author Jia, Yanhao
Wu, Xinyi
Li, Hao
Zhang, Qinglin
Hu, Yuxiao
Zhao, Shuai
Fan, Wenqi
author_facet Jia, Yanhao
Wu, Xinyi
Li, Hao
Zhang, Qinglin
Hu, Yuxiao
Zhao, Shuai
Fan, Wenqi
contents In AI-facilitated teaching, leveraging various query styles to interpret abstract text descriptions is crucial for ensuring high-quality teaching. However, current retrieval models primarily focus on natural text-image retrieval, making them insufficiently tailored to educational scenarios due to the ambiguities in the retrieval process. In this paper, we propose a diverse expression retrieval task tailored to educational scenarios, supporting retrieval based on multiple query styles and expressions. We introduce the STEM Education Retrieval Dataset (SER), which contains over 24,000 query pairs of different styles, and the Uni-Retrieval, an efficient and style-diversified retrieval vision-language model based on prompt tuning. Uni-Retrieval extracts query style features as prototypes and builds a continuously updated Prompt Bank containing prompt tokens for diverse queries. This bank can updated during test time to represent domain-specific knowledge for different subject retrieval scenarios. Our framework demonstrates scalability and robustness by dynamically retrieving prompt tokens based on prototype similarity, effectively facilitating learning for unknown queries. Experimental results indicate that Uni-Retrieval outperforms existing retrieval models in most retrieval tasks. This advancement provides a scalable and precise solution for diverse educational needs.
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spellingShingle Uni-Retrieval: A Multi-Style Retrieval Framework for STEM's Education
Jia, Yanhao
Wu, Xinyi
Li, Hao
Zhang, Qinglin
Hu, Yuxiao
Zhao, Shuai
Fan, Wenqi
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Multimedia
In AI-facilitated teaching, leveraging various query styles to interpret abstract text descriptions is crucial for ensuring high-quality teaching. However, current retrieval models primarily focus on natural text-image retrieval, making them insufficiently tailored to educational scenarios due to the ambiguities in the retrieval process. In this paper, we propose a diverse expression retrieval task tailored to educational scenarios, supporting retrieval based on multiple query styles and expressions. We introduce the STEM Education Retrieval Dataset (SER), which contains over 24,000 query pairs of different styles, and the Uni-Retrieval, an efficient and style-diversified retrieval vision-language model based on prompt tuning. Uni-Retrieval extracts query style features as prototypes and builds a continuously updated Prompt Bank containing prompt tokens for diverse queries. This bank can updated during test time to represent domain-specific knowledge for different subject retrieval scenarios. Our framework demonstrates scalability and robustness by dynamically retrieving prompt tokens based on prototype similarity, effectively facilitating learning for unknown queries. Experimental results indicate that Uni-Retrieval outperforms existing retrieval models in most retrieval tasks. This advancement provides a scalable and precise solution for diverse educational needs.
title Uni-Retrieval: A Multi-Style Retrieval Framework for STEM's Education
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05863