Large language models know your contextual search intent: A prompting framework for conversational search

K Mao, Z Dou, F Mo, J Hou, H Chen, H Qian - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Precisely understanding users' contextual search intent has been an important challenge for
conversational search. As conversational search sessions are much more diverse and long …

Towards accurate differential diagnosis with large language models

D McDuff, M Schaekermann, T Tu, A Palepu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
An accurate differential diagnosis (DDx) is a cornerstone of medical care, often reached
through an iterative process of interpretation that combines clinical history, physical …

Query understanding in the age of large language models

A Anand, A Anand, V Setty - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.16004, 2023 - arxiv.org
Querying, conversing, and controlling search and information-seeking interfaces using
natural language are fast becoming ubiquitous with the rise and adoption of large-language …

Generative query reformulation for effective adhoc search

X Wang, S MacAvaney, C Macdonald… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Performing automatic reformulations of a user's query is a popular paradigm used in
information retrieval (IR) for improving effectiveness--as exemplified by the pseudo …

Generative and pseudo-relevant feedback for sparse, dense and learned sparse retrieval

I Mackie, S Chatterjee, J Dalton - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.07477, 2023 - arxiv.org
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) is a classical approach to address lexical mismatch by
enriching the query using first-pass retrieval. Moreover, recent work on generative-relevance …

Gar-meets-rag paradigm for zero-shot information retrieval

D Arora, A Kini, SR Chowdhury, N Natarajan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Given a query and a document corpus, the information retrieval (IR) task is to output a
ranked list of relevant documents. Combining large language models (LLMs) with …

Enhancing Interactive Image Retrieval With Query Rewriting Using Large Language Models and Vision Language Models

H Zhu, JH Huang, S Rudinac, E Kanoulas - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Image search stands as a pivotal task in multimedia and computer vision, finding
applications across diverse domains, ranging from internet search to medical diagnostics …

GRM: generative relevance modeling using relevance-aware sample estimation for document retrieval

I Mackie, I Sekulic, S Chatterjee, J Dalton… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent studies show that Generative Relevance Feedback (GRF), using text generated by
Large Language Models (LLMs), can enhance the effectiveness of query expansion …

USimAgent: Large Language Models for Simulating Search Users

E Zhang, X Wang, P Gong, Y Lin, J Mao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09142, 2024 - arxiv.org
Due to the advantages in the cost-efficiency and reproducibility, user simulation has become
a promising solution to the user-centric evaluation of information retrieval systems …

Generative Information Retrieval Evaluation

M Alaofi, N Arabzadeh, CLA Clarke… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this chapter, we consider generative information retrieval evaluation from two distinct but
interrelated perspectives. First, large language models (LLMs) themselves are rapidly …