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 …

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 …

Re-reading improves reasoning in language models

X Xu, C Tao, T Shen, C Xu, H Xu, G Long… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Reasoning presents a significant and challenging issue for Large Language Models (LLMs).
The predominant focus of research has revolved around developing diverse prompting …

Llatrieval: Llm-verified retrieval for verifiable generation

X Li, C Zhu, L Li, Z Yin, T Sun, X Qiu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.07838, 2023 - arxiv.org
Verifiable generation aims to let the large language model (LLM) generate text with
corresponding supporting documents, which enables the user to flexibly verify the answer …

Instructor: Instructing unsupervised conversational dense retrieval with large language models

Z Jin, P Cao, Y Chen, K Liu, J Zhao - Findings of the Association …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Compared to traditional single-turn ad-hoc retrieval, conversational retrieval needs to
handle the multi-turn conversation and understand the user's real query intent. However …

Unims-rag: A unified multi-source retrieval-augmented generation for personalized dialogue systems

H Wang, W Huang, Y Deng, R Wang, Z Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) has shown exceptional capabilities in many natual
language understanding and generation tasks. However, the personalization issue still …

ICXML: An in-context learning framework for zero-shot extreme multi-label classification

Y Zhu, H Zamani - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09649, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper focuses on the task of Extreme Multi-Label Classification (XMC) whose goal is to
predict multiple labels for each instance from an extremely large label space. While existing …

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 …

Cognitive personalized search integrating large language models with an efficient memory mechanism

Y Zhou, Q Zhu, J Jin, Z Dou - Proceedings of the ACM on Web …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Traditional search engines usually provide identical search results for all users, overlooking
individual preferences. To counter this limitation, personalized search has been developed …

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 …