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Information Retrieval (IR) systems are crucial tools for users to access information, which have long been dominated by traditional methods relying on similarity matching. With the advancement of pre-trained language models, generative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xiaoxi Li , Jiajie Jin , Yujia Zhou , Yuyao Zhang , Peitian Zhang , Yutao Zhu , Zhicheng Dou

Generative retrieval represents a novel approach to information retrieval. It uses an encoder-decoder architecture to directly produce relevant document identifiers (docids) for queries. While this method offers benefits, current approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yubao Tang , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Wei Chen , Xueqi Cheng

Generative information retrieval (IR) has experienced substantial growth across multiple research communities (e.g., information retrieval, computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning), and has been highly visible in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Gabriel Bénédict , Ruqing Zhang , Donald Metzler

Generative retrieval (GR) reformulates information retrieval (IR) by framing it as the generation of document identifiers (docids), thereby enabling end-to-end optimization and seamless integration with generative language models (LMs).…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Weiwei Sun , Keyi Kong , Xinyu Ma , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren , Yiming Yang

Generative retrieval constitutes an innovative approach in information retrieval, leveraging generative language models (LM) to generate a ranked list of document identifiers (docid) for a given query. It simplifies the retrieval pipeline…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Penghao Lu , Xin Dong , Yuansheng Zhou , Lei Cheng , Chuan Yuan , Linjian Mo

In book search, relevant book information should be returned in response to a query. Books contain complex, multi-faceted information such as metadata, outlines, and main text, where the outline provides hierarchical information between…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yubao Tang , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Shihao Liu , Shuaiqing Wang , Dawei Yin , Xueqi Cheng

Leveraging generative retrieval (GR) techniques to enhance search systems is an emerging methodology that has shown promising results in recent years. In GR, a text-to-text model maps string queries directly to relevant document identifiers…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Yanjing Wu , Yinfu Feng , Jian Wang , Wenji Zhou , Yunan Ye , Rong Xiao , Jun Xiao

Generative retrieval (GR) reframes document retrieval as an end-to-end task of generating sequential document identifiers (DocIDs). Existing GR methods predominantly rely on left-to-right auto-regressive decoding, which suffers from two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xinpeng Zhao , Zhaochun Ren , Yukun Zhao , Zhenyang Li , Mengqi Zhang , Jun Feng , Ran Chen , Ying Zhou , Zhumin Chen , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Xin Xin

Generative retrieval (GR) directly predicts the identifiers of relevant documents (i.e., docids) based on a parametric model. It has achieved solid performance on many ad-hoc retrieval tasks. So far, these tasks have assumed a static…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jiangui Chen , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Wei Chen , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

Benchmarking the performance of information retrieval (IR) is mostly conducted with a fixed set of documents (static corpora). However, in realistic scenarios, this is rarely the case and the documents to be retrieved are constantly updated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Chaeeun Kim , Soyoung Yoon , Hyunji Lee , Joel Jang , Sohee Yang , Minjoon Seo

Generative models for Information Retrieval, where ranking of documents is viewed as the task of generating a query from a document's language model, were very successful in various IR tasks in the past. However, with the advent of modern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Xiaofei Ma , Ramesh Nallapati , Zhiheng Huang , Bing Xiang

In this chapter, we consider generative information retrieval evaluation from two distinct but interrelated perspectives. First, large language models (LLMs) themselves are rapidly becoming tools for evaluation, with current research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Marwah Alaofi , Negar Arabzadeh , Charles L. A. Clarke , Mark Sanderson

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

Generative retrieval (GR) has emerged as a new paradigm in neural information retrieval, offering an alternative to dense retrieval (DR) by directly generating identifiers of relevant documents. In this paper, we theoretically and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yingchen Zhang , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

Generative Retrieval (GR), autoregressively decoding relevant document identifiers given a query, has been shown to perform well under the setting of small-scale corpora. By memorizing the document corpus with model parameters, GR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Peiwen Yuan , Xinglin Wang , Shaoxiong Feng , Boyuan Pan , Yiwei Li , Heda Wang , Xupeng Miao , Kan Li

Generative retrieval (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm in information retrieval (IR). However, most existing GR models are developed and evaluated using a static document collection, and their performance in dynamic corpora where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhen Zhang , Xinyu Ma , Weiwei Sun , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Generative retrieval (GR) has gained significant attention as an effective paradigm that integrates the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). It generally consists of two stages: constructing discrete semantic identifiers (IDs) for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Xiaoyu Liu , Fuwei Zhang , Yiqing Wu , Xinyu Jia , Zenghua Xia , Fuzhen Zhuang , Zhao Zhang , Fei Jiang , Wei Lin

Recent research has shown that transformer networks can be used as differentiable search indexes by representing each document as a sequences of document ID tokens. These generative retrieval models cast the retrieval problem to a document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Hansi Zeng , Chen Luo , Bowen Jin , Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar , Tianxin Wei , Hamed Zamani

Generative Information Retrieval (GenIR) is a novel paradigm in which a transformer encoder-decoder model predicts document rankings based on a query in an end-to-end fashion. These GenIR models have received significant attention due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Anja Reusch , Yonatan Belinkov

Generative retrieval introduces a groundbreaking paradigm to document retrieval by directly generating the identifier of a pertinent document in response to a specific query. This paradigm has demonstrated considerable benefits and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mingming Li , Huimu Wang , Zuxu Chen , Guangtao Nie , Yiming Qiu , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Jingwei Zhuo
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