Succeeding at Scale: Automated Dataset Construction and Query-Side Adaptation for Multi-Tenant Search

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Main Authors: Jain, Prateek, Nair, Shabari S, Goru, Ritesh, Agarwal, Prakhar, Yadav, Ajay, Varadharajan, Yoga Sri Varshan, Caramanis, Constantine
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author Jain, Prateek
Nair, Shabari S
Goru, Ritesh
Agarwal, Prakhar
Yadav, Ajay
Varadharajan, Yoga Sri Varshan
Caramanis, Constantine
author_facet Jain, Prateek
Nair, Shabari S
Goru, Ritesh
Agarwal, Prakhar
Yadav, Ajay
Varadharajan, Yoga Sri Varshan
Caramanis, Constantine
contents Large-scale multi-tenant retrieval systems generate extensive query logs but lack curated relevance labels for effective domain adaptation, resulting in substantial underutilized "dark data". This challenge is compounded by the high cost of model updates, as jointly fine-tuning query and document encoders requires full corpus re-indexing, which is impractical in multi-tenant settings with thousands of isolated indices. We introduce DevRev-Search, a passage retrieval benchmark for technical customer support built via a fully automated pipeline. Candidate generation uses fusion across diverse sparse and dense retrievers, followed by an LLM-as-a-Judge for consistency filtering and relevance labeling. We further propose an Index-Preserving Adaptation strategy that fine-tunes only the query encoder, achieving strong performance gains while keeping document indices fixed. Experiments on DevRev-Search, SciFact, and FiQA-2018 show that Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) of the query encoder delivers a remarkable quality-efficiency trade-off, enabling scalable and practical enterprise search adaptation.
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spellingShingle Succeeding at Scale: Automated Dataset Construction and Query-Side Adaptation for Multi-Tenant Search
Jain, Prateek
Nair, Shabari S
Goru, Ritesh
Agarwal, Prakhar
Yadav, Ajay
Varadharajan, Yoga Sri Varshan
Caramanis, Constantine
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Large-scale multi-tenant retrieval systems generate extensive query logs but lack curated relevance labels for effective domain adaptation, resulting in substantial underutilized "dark data". This challenge is compounded by the high cost of model updates, as jointly fine-tuning query and document encoders requires full corpus re-indexing, which is impractical in multi-tenant settings with thousands of isolated indices. We introduce DevRev-Search, a passage retrieval benchmark for technical customer support built via a fully automated pipeline. Candidate generation uses fusion across diverse sparse and dense retrievers, followed by an LLM-as-a-Judge for consistency filtering and relevance labeling. We further propose an Index-Preserving Adaptation strategy that fine-tunes only the query encoder, achieving strong performance gains while keeping document indices fixed. Experiments on DevRev-Search, SciFact, and FiQA-2018 show that Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) of the query encoder delivers a remarkable quality-efficiency trade-off, enabling scalable and practical enterprise search adaptation.
title Succeeding at Scale: Automated Dataset Construction and Query-Side Adaptation for Multi-Tenant Search
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04646