Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks

Lewis et al., 2020, Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 (NeurIPS 2020))

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3 Experiments

  1. What non-parametric memory did RAG use?
    A December 2018 Wikipedia dump split into disjoint 100-word chunks, 21M passages, embedded by the DPR document encoder and indexed with FAISS (HNSW approximation); 5 or 10 documents were retrieved per query in training.

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