App to App Retrieval
App-to-app retrieval focuses on efficiently and accurately retrieving relevant information from large datasets, particularly within the context of augmented generation models. Current research emphasizes improving retrieval methods through techniques like contrastive learning, recursive abstractive processing, and the incorporation of derived features or semantic similarity searches, often within hierarchical memory structures. These advancements are crucial for enhancing various applications, including fact-checking, question answering, recommendation systems, and robotics, by enabling more effective use of large language models and multimodal data. The ultimate goal is to create more robust and efficient systems capable of handling increasingly complex information retrieval tasks.
Papers
Retrieval Helps or Hurts? A Deeper Dive into the Efficacy of Retrieval Augmentation to Language Models
Seiji Maekawa, Hayate Iso, Sairam Gurajada, Nikita Bhutani
Learning to Retrieve for Job Matching
Jianqiang Shen, Yuchin Juan, Shaobo Zhang, Ping Liu, Wen Pu, Sriram Vasudevan, Qingquan Song, Fedor Borisyuk, Kay Qianqi Shen, Haichao Wei, Yunxiang Ren, Yeou S. Chiou, Sicong Kuang, Yuan Yin, Ben Zheng, Muchen Wu, Shaghayegh Gharghabi, Xiaoqing Wang, Huichao Xue, Qi Guo, Daniel Hewlett, Luke Simon, Liangjie Hong, Wenjing Zhang
Generative Cross-Modal Retrieval: Memorizing Images in Multimodal Language Models for Retrieval and Beyond
Yongqi Li, Wenjie Wang, Leigang Qu, Liqiang Nie, Wenjie Li, Tat-Seng Chua
Retrieve Only When It Needs: Adaptive Retrieval Augmentation for Hallucination Mitigation in Large Language Models
Hanxing Ding, Liang Pang, Zihao Wei, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng