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This study presents a question-based knowledge encoding approach that improves retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems without requiring fine-tuning or traditional chunking. We encode textual content using generated questions that span…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive progress in natural language processing, but their limited ability to retain long-term context constrains performance on document-level or multi-turn tasks. Retrieval-Augmented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhangyu Wang , Siyuan Gao , Rong Zhou , Hao Wang , Li Ning

We present Sampled Weighted Min-Hashing (SWMH), a randomized approach to automatically mine topics from large-scale corpora. SWMH generates multiple random partitions of the corpus vocabulary based on term co-occurrence and agglomerates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Gibran Fuentes-Pineda , Ivan Vladimir Meza-Ruiz

Generative retrieval shed light on a new paradigm of document retrieval, aiming to directly generate the identifier of a relevant document for a query. While it takes advantage of bypassing the construction of auxiliary index structures,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sunkyung Lee , Minjin Choi , Jongwuk Lee

Learning-based hashing algorithms are ``hot topics" because they can greatly increase the scale at which existing methods operate. In this paper, we propose a new learning-based hashing method called ``fast supervised discrete hashing"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Jie Gui , Tongliang Liu , Zhenan Sun , Dacheng Tao , Tieniu Tan

Hashing produces compact representations for documents, to perform tasks like classification or retrieval based on these short codes. When hashing is supervised, the codes are trained using labels on the training data. This paper first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Alexandre Sablayrolles , Matthijs Douze , Hervé Jégou , Nicolas Usunier

Due to its fast retrieval and storage efficiency capabilities, hashing has been widely used in nearest neighbor retrieval tasks. By using deep learning based techniques, hashing can outperform non-learning based hashing technique in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Zhan Yang , Osolo Ian Raymond , WuQing Sun , Jun Long

We develop a scalable algorithm to learn binary hash codes for indexing large-scale datasets. Near-isometric binary hashing (NIBH) is a data-dependent hashing scheme that quantizes the output of a learned low-dimensional embedding to obtain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Amirali Aghazadeh , Andrew Lan , Anshumali Shrivastava , Richard Baraniuk

This paper presents Semantic SentenceRank (SSR), an unsupervised scheme for automatically ranking sentences in a single document according to their relative importance. In particular, SSR extracts essential words and phrases from a text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Hao Zhang , Jie Wang

Consistent hashing is fundamental to distributed systems, but ring-based schemes can exhibit high peak-to-average load ratios unless they use many virtual nodes, while multi-probe methods improve balance at the cost of scattered memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yongjie Guan

In the era of big data, methods for improving memory and computational efficiency have become crucial for successful deployment of technologies. Hashing is one of the most effective approaches to deal with computational limitations that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Sobhan Hemati , Mohammad Hadi Mehdizavareh , Shojaeddin Chenouri , Hamid R Tizhoosh

Kernel method has been developed as one of the standard approaches for nonlinear learning, which however, does not scale to large data set due to its quadratic complexity in the number of samples. A number of kernel approximation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Lingfei Wu , Ian E. H. Yen , Jie Chen , Rui Yan

Online hashing has attracted extensive research attention when facing streaming data. Most online hashing methods, learning binary codes based on pairwise similarities of training instances, fail to capture the semantic relationship, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Mingbao Lin , Rongrong Ji , Shen Chen , Feng Zheng , Xiaoshuai Sun , Baochang Zhang , Liujuan Cao , Guodong Guo , Feiyue Huang

Hashing has emerged as a popular technique for large-scale similarity search. Most learning-based hashing methods generate compact yet correlated hash codes. However, this redundancy is storage-inefficient. Hence we propose a lossless…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Honghai Yu , Pierre Moulin , Hong Wei Ng , Xiaoli Li

Supervised cross-modal hashing has gained increasing research interest on large-scale retrieval task owning to its satisfactory performance and efficiency. However, it still has some challenging issues to be further studied: 1) most of them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Tao Yao , Xiangwei Kong , Lianshan Yan , Wenjing Tang , Qi Tian

Recently, unsupervised learning has made impressive progress on various tasks. Despite the dominance of discriminative models, increasing attention is drawn to representations learned by generative models and in particular, Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jianjin Xu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Xiaolin Hu

Unsupervised hashing can desirably support scalable content-based image retrieval (SCBIR) for its appealing advantages of semantic label independence, memory and search efficiency. However, the learned hash codes are embedded with limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Lei Zhu , Zi Huang , Zhihui Li , Liang Xie , Heng Tao Shen

Knowledge-intensive language tasks require NLP systems to both provide the correct answer and retrieve supporting evidence for it in a given corpus. Autoregressive language models are emerging as the de-facto standard for generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Michele Bevilacqua , Giuseppe Ottaviano , Patrick Lewis , Wen-tau Yih , Sebastian Riedel , Fabio Petroni

Similarity search is critical for many database applications, including the increasingly popular online services for Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval (CBMR). These services, which include image search engines, must handle an overwhelming…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-16 Thiago S. F. X. Teixeira , George Teodoro , Eduardo Valle , Joel H. Saltz

Existing unsupervised hash learning is a kind of attribute-centered calculation. It may not accurately preserve the similarity between data. This leads to low down the performance of hash function learning. In this paper, a hash algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Shichao Zhang , Jiaye Li