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Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) can enhance average retrieval effectiveness over a sufficiently large number of queries. However, PRF often introduces a drift into the original information need, thus hurting the retrieval effectiveness of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Suchana Datta , Debasis Ganguly , Sean MacAvaney , Derek Greene

Pseudo relevance feedback (PRF) automatically performs query expansion based on top-retrieved documents to better represent the user's information need so as to improve the search results. Previous PRF methods mainly select expansion terms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Handong Ma , Jiawei Hou , Chenxu Zhu , Weinan Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Jincai Lai , Jieming Zhu , Xiuqiang He , Yong Yu

Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) is a classical approach to address lexical mismatch by enriching the query using first-pass retrieval. Moreover, recent work on generative-relevance feedback (GRF) shows that query expansion models using text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Iain Mackie , Shubham Chatterjee , Jeffrey Dalton

Information-seeking conversation systems are increasingly popular in real-world applications, especially for e-commerce companies. To retrieve appropriate responses for users, it is necessary to compute the matching degrees between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Haojie Pan , Cen Chen , Chengyu Wang , Minghui Qiu , Liu Yang , Feng Ji , Jun Huang

Query expansion is the reformulation of a user query by adding semantically related information, and is an essential component of monolingual and cross-lingual information retrieval used to ensure that relevant documents are not missed.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Olivia Macmillan-Scott , Roksana Goworek , Eda B. Özyiğit

Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) is commonly used to boost the performance of traditional information retrieval (IR) models by using top-ranked documents to identify and weight new query terms, thereby reducing the effect of query-document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Canjia Li , Yingfei Sun , Ben He , Le Wang , Kai Hui , Andrew Yates , Le Sun , Jungang Xu

Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) has proven to be an effective query reformulation technique to improve retrieval accuracy. It aims to alleviate the mismatch of linguistic expressions between a query and its potential relevant documents.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yunchang Zhu , Liang Pang , Yanyan Lan , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Recent approaches that leverage large language models (LLMs) for pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) have generally not utilized well-established feedback models like Rocchio and RM3 when expanding queries for sparse retrievers like BM25.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Nour Jedidi , Jimmy Lin

Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) methods built on large language models (LLMs) can be organized along two key design dimensions: the feedback source, which is where the feedback text is derived from and the feedback model, which is how the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Nour Jedidi , Jimmy Lin

Vector Pseudo Relevance Feedback (VPRF) has shown promising results in improving BERT-based dense retrieval systems through iterative refinement of query representations. This paper investigates the generalizability of VPRF to Large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Hang Li , Shengyao Zhuang , Bevan Koopman , Guido Zuccon

Query rewriting is a fundamental technique in information retrieval (IR). It typically employs the retrieval result as relevance feedback to refine the query and thereby addresses the vocabulary mismatch between user queries and relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yiteng Tu , Weihang Su , Yujia Zhou , Yiqun Liu , Fen Lin , Qin Liu , Qingyao Ai

Query Expansion using Pseudo Relevance Feedback is a useful and a popular technique for reformulating the query. In our proposed query expansion method, we assume that relevant information can be found within a document near the central…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Rekha Vaidyanathan , Sujoy Das , Namita Srivastava

Query-expansion via pseudo-relevance feedback is a popular method of overcoming the problem of vocabulary mismatch and of increasing average retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we develop a new method that estimates a query topic model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Ronan Cummins

Query expansion is a widely used technique to improve the recall of search systems. In this paper, we propose an approach to query expansion that leverages the generative abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Unlike traditional query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Rolf Jagerman , Honglei Zhuang , Zhen Qin , Xuanhui Wang , Michael Bendersky

Scaling dense retrievers to larger large language model (LLM) backbones has been a dominant strategy for improving their retrieval effectiveness. However, this has substantial cost implications: larger backbones require more expensive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Hang Li , Xiao Wang , Bevan Koopman , Guido Zuccon

Current query expansion models use pseudo-relevance feedback to improve first-pass retrieval effectiveness; however, this fails when the initial results are not relevant. Instead of building a language model from retrieved results, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Iain Mackie , Shubham Chatterjee , Jeffrey Dalton

Query expansion has been employed for a long time to improve the accuracy of query retrievers. Earlier works relied on pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) techniques, which augment a query with terms extracted from documents retrieved in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Muhammad Shihab Rashid , Jannat Ara Meem , Yue Dong , Vagelis Hristidis

Large vision-language models (VLMs) enable intuitive visual search using natural language queries. However, improving their performance often requires fine-tuning and scaling to larger model variants. In this work, we propose a mechanism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Bulat Khaertdinov , Mirela Popa , Nava Tintarev

This paper introduces a simple yet effective query expansion approach, denoted as query2doc, to improve both sparse and dense retrieval systems. The proposed method first generates pseudo-documents by few-shot prompting large language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Liang Wang , Nan Yang , Furu Wei

Query expansion with pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) is a powerful approach to enhance the effectiveness in information retrieval. Recently, with the rapid advance of deep learning techniques, neural text generation has achieved promising…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Minghui Huang , Dong Wang , Shuang Liu , Meizhen Ding
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