Advancing continual lifelong learning in neural information retrieval: definition, dataset, framework, and empirical evaluation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08378v2
• Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:45:30 GMT
• Title: Advancing continual lifelong learning in neural information retrieval: definition, dataset, framework, and empirical evaluation
• Authors: Jingrui Hou, Georgina Cosma, Axel Finke,
• Abstract summary: A systematic task formulation of continual neural information retrieval is presented. A comprehensive continual neural information retrieval framework is proposed. Empirical evaluations illustrate that the proposed framework can successfully prevent catastrophic forgetting in neural information retrieval.
• Score: 3.2340528215722553
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Continual learning refers to the capability of a machine learning model to learn and adapt to new information, without compromising its performance on previously learned tasks. Although several studies have investigated continual learning methods for information retrieval tasks, a well-defined task formulation is still lacking, and it is unclear how typical learning strategies perform in this context. To address this challenge, a systematic task formulation of continual neural information retrieval is presented, along with a multiple-topic dataset that simulates continuous information retrieval. A comprehensive continual neural information retrieval framework consisting of typical retrieval models and continual learning strategies is then proposed. Empirical evaluations illustrate that the proposed framework can successfully prevent catastrophic forgetting in neural information retrieval and enhance performance on previously learned tasks. The results indicate that embedding-based retrieval models experience a decline in their continual learning performance as the topic shift distance and dataset volume of new tasks increase. In contrast, pretraining-based models do not show any such correlation. Adopting suitable learning strategies can mitigate the effects of topic shift and data augmentation.

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