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 …

From matching to generation: A survey on generative information retrieval

X Li, J Jin, Y Zhou, Y Zhang, P Zhang, Y Zhu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Information Retrieval (IR) systems are crucial tools for users to access information, widely
applied in scenarios like search engines, question answering, and recommendation …

Continual learning for generative retrieval over dynamic corpora

J Chen, R Zhang, J Guo, M de Rijke, W Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Generative retrieval (GR) directly predicts the identifiers of relevant documents (ie, docids)
based on a parametric model. It has achieved solid performance on many ad-hoc retrieval …

Generative sequential recommendation with gptrec

AV Petrov, C Macdonald - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.11114, 2023 - arxiv.org
Sequential recommendation is an important recommendation task that aims to predict the
next item in a sequence. Recently, adaptations of language models, particularly Transformer …

Recent advances in generative information retrieval

Y Tang, R Zhang, J Guo, M de Rijke - … in Information Retrieval in the Asia …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Generative retrieval (GR) has become a highly active area of information retrieval (IR) that
has witnessed significant growth recently. Compared to the traditional “index-retrieve-then …

Evaluating generative ad hoc information retrieval

L Gienapp, H Scells, N Deckers, J Bevendorff… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recent advances in large language models have enabled the development of viable
generative retrieval systems. Instead of a traditional document ranking, generative retrieval …

Master: Multi-task pre-trained bottlenecked masked autoencoders are better dense retrievers

K Zhou, X Liu, Y Gong, WX Zhao, D Jiang… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - Springer
Pre-trained Transformers (eg, BERT) have been commonly used in existing dense retrieval
methods for parameter initialization, and recent studies are exploring more effective pre …

Generative retrieval as multi-vector dense retrieval

S Wu, W Wei, M Zhang, Z Chen, J Ma, Z Ren… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
For a given query generative retrieval generates identifiers of relevant documents in an end-
to-end manner using a sequence-to-sequence architecture. The relation between …

Generative Retrieval via Term Set Generation

P Zhang, Z Liu, Y Zhou, Z Dou, F Liu… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recently, generative retrieval has emerged as a promising alternative to the traditional
retrieval paradigms. It assigns each document a unique identifier, known as the DocID, and …

Genetic Generative Information Retrieval

H Kulkarni, Z Young, N Goharian, O Frieder… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Documents come in all shapes and sizes and are created by many different means,
including now-a-days, generative language models. We demonstrate that a simple genetic …