EfficientRAG: Efficient Retriever for Multi-Hop Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04259v2
• Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:42:35 GMT
• Title: EfficientRAG: Efficient Retriever for Multi-Hop Question Answering
• Authors: Ziyuan Zhuang, Zhiyang Zhang, Sitao Cheng, Fangkai Yang, Jia Liu, Shujian Huang, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang, Qi Zhang,
• Abstract summary: We introduce EfficientRAG, an efficient retriever for multi-hop question answering. Experimental results demonstrate that EfficientRAG surpasses existing RAG methods on three open-domain multi-hop question-answering datasets.
• Score: 52.64500643247252
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods encounter difficulties when addressing complex questions like multi-hop queries. While iterative retrieval methods improve performance by gathering additional information, current approaches often rely on multiple calls of large language models (LLMs). In this paper, we introduce EfficientRAG, an efficient retriever for multi-hop question answering. EfficientRAG iteratively generates new queries without the need for LLM calls at each iteration and filters out irrelevant information. Experimental results demonstrate that EfficientRAG surpasses existing RAG methods on three open-domain multi-hop question-answering datasets.

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