A Thorough Examination on Zero-shot Dense Retrieval

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.12755v2
• Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 17:11:13 GMT
• Title: A Thorough Examination on Zero-shot Dense Retrieval
• Authors: Ruiyang Ren, Yingqi Qu, Jing Liu, Wayne Xin Zhao, Qifei Wu, Yuchen Ding, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Ji-Rong Wen
• Abstract summary: We present the first thorough examination of the zero-shot capability of dense retrieval (DR) models. We discuss the effect of several key factors related to source training set, analyze the potential bias from the target dataset, and review and compare existing zero-shot DR models.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the significant advance in dense retrieval (DR) based on powerful pre-trained language models (PLM). DR models have achieved excellent performance in several benchmark datasets, while they are shown to be not as competitive as traditional sparse retrieval models (e.g., BM25) in a zero-shot retrieval setting. However, in the related literature, there still lacks a detailed and comprehensive study on zero-shot retrieval. In this paper, we present the first thorough examination of the zero-shot capability of DR models. We aim to identify the key factors and analyze how they affect zero-shot retrieval performance. In particular, we discuss the effect of several key factors related to source training set, analyze the potential bias from the target dataset, and review and compare existing zero-shot DR models. Our findings provide important evidence to better understand and develop zero-shot DR models.

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