Large language models for information retrieval: A survey

Y Zhu, H Yuan, S Wang, J Liu, W Liu, C Deng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
As a primary means of information acquisition, information retrieval (IR) systems, such as
search engines, have integrated themselves into our daily lives. These systems also serve …

Sources of hallucination by large language models on inference tasks

N McKenna, T Li, L Cheng, MJ Hosseini… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) are claimed to be capable of Natural Language Inference
(NLI), necessary for applied tasks like question answering and summarization. We present a …

A survey on knowledge distillation of large language models

X Xu, M Li, C Tao, T Shen, R Cheng, J Li, C Xu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This survey presents an in-depth exploration of knowledge distillation (KD) techniques
within the realm of Large Language Models (LLMs), spotlighting the pivotal role of KD in …

Llms may dominate information access: Neural retrievers are biased towards llm-generated texts

S Dai, Y Zhou, L Pang, W Liu, X Hu, Y Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recently, the emergence of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the paradigm
of information retrieval (IR) applications, especially in web search. With their remarkable …

Snapntell: Enhancing entity-centric visual question answering with retrieval augmented multimodal llm

J Qiu, A Madotto, Z Lin, PA Crook, YE Xu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Vision-extended LLMs have made significant strides in Visual Question Answering (VQA).
Despite these advancements, VLLMs still encounter substantial difficulties in handling …

Neural retrievers are biased towards llm-generated content

S Dai, Y Zhou, L Pang, W Liu, X Hu, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recently, the emergence of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the paradigm
of information retrieval (IR) applications, especially in web search, by generating vast …

INTERS: Unlocking the Power of Large Language Models in Search with Instruction Tuning

Y Zhu, P Zhang, C Zhang, Y Chen, B Xie, Z Dou… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in various
natural language processing tasks. Despite this, their application to information retrieval (IR) …

Steering Large Language Models for Cross-lingual Information Retrieval

P Guo, Y Ren, Y Hu, Y Cao, Y Li, H Huang - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In today's digital age, accessing information across language barriers poses a significant
challenge, with conventional search systems often struggling to interpret and retrieve …

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 …

Agent4ranking: Semantic robust ranking via personalized query rewriting using multi-agent llm

X Li, L Su, P Jia, X Zhao, S Cheng, J Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Search engines are crucial as they provide an efficient and easy way to access vast
amounts of information on the internet for diverse information needs. User queries, even with …