Zero-shot Retrieval: Augmenting Pre-trained Models with Search Engines

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17949v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 05:33:28 GMT
• Title: Zero-shot Retrieval: Augmenting Pre-trained Models with Search Engines
• Authors: Hamed Damirchi, Cristian Rodr\'iguez-Opazo, Ehsan Abbasnejad, Damien Teney, Javen Qinfeng Shi, Stephen Gould, Anton van den Hengel
• Abstract summary: Large pre-trained models can dramatically reduce the amount of task-specific data required to solve a problem, but they often fail to capture domain-specific nuances out of the box. This paper shows how to leverage recent advances in NLP and multi-modal learning to augment a pre-trained model with search engine retrieval.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large pre-trained models can dramatically reduce the amount of task-specific data required to solve a problem, but they often fail to capture domain-specific nuances out of the box. The Web likely contains the information necessary to excel on any specific application, but identifying the right data a priori is challenging. This paper shows how to leverage recent advances in NLP and multi-modal learning to augment a pre-trained model with search engine retrieval. We propose to retrieve useful data from the Web at test time based on test cases that the model is uncertain about. Different from existing retrieval-augmented approaches, we then update the model to address this underlying uncertainty. We demonstrate substantial improvements in zero-shot performance, e.g. a remarkable increase of 15 percentage points in accuracy on the Stanford Cars and Flowers datasets. We also present extensive experiments that explore the impact of noisy retrieval and different learning strategies.

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