Optimizing their performance while managing computational resources is a crucial challenge in an era of increasingly powerful language models. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Washington explored an innovative strategy that compresses recovered documents into concise textual summaries. By employing both extractive and abstractive compressors, their approach successfully improves the efficiency of linguistic models.
Efficiency improvements in retrieval augmented language models (RALM) are a focal point, focusing on improving retrieval components through techniques such as data warehouse compression and dimensionality reduction. Strategies to reduce retrieval frequency include selective retrieval and the use of longer strides. Their article “RECOMP” provides a novel approach by compressing recovered documents into succinct textual summaries. His approach not only reduces computational costs but also improves the performance of the language model.
Addressing the limitations of RALMs, their study presents RECOMP (Recover, Compress, Prepend), a novel approach to improve their efficiency. RECOMP involves compressing recovered documents into textual summaries before augmentation in context. Their process uses both an extractive compressor to select relevant sentences from documents and an abstractive compressor to synthesize information into a concise summary.
Their method introduces two specialized compressors, an extractive and an abstractive compressor, designed to improve the performance of language models (LMs) in final tasks by creating concise summaries from retrieved documents. The extractive compressor selects relevant sentences, while the abstractive compressor synthesizes data from multiple documents. Both compressors are trained to optimize LM performance when their generated digests are added to the LM input. The assessment includes language modeling and open-domain question answering tasks, and transferability across multiple LMs is demonstrated.
Their approach is evaluated on language modeling and open domain question answering tasks, achieving a remarkable 6% compression rate with minimal performance loss, outperforming standard summarization models. The extractive compressor excels in language models, while the abstractive compressor works best with the least perplexity. In open domain question answering, all recall augmentation methods improve performance. Extractive Oracle leads and DPR performs well among extractive baselines. The trained compressors are transferred between language models in language modeling tasks.
RECOMP is introduced to compress recovered documents into textual summaries, improving the performance of LM. Two compressors are used, extractive and abstractive. Compressors are effective in language modeling and open domain question answering tasks. In conclusion, compressing retrieved documents into textual summaries improves LM performance while reducing computational costs.
Future research directions, including adaptive augmentation with extractive summarizer, improve compressor performance on different language models and tasks, explore different compression rates, consider neural network-based compression models, experiment with a wider range of features and data sets, evaluate generalization to other domains and languages, and integrate other retrieval methods such as document embeddings or query expansion to improve augmented retrieval language models.
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