Generator-Retriever-Generator: A Novel Approach to Open-domain Question Answering

Paper · arXiv 2307.11278 · Published July 21, 2023
Question Answer Search

“Open-domain question answering (QA) tasks usually require the retrieval of relevant information from a large corpus to generate accurate answers. We propose a novel approach called Generator-Retriever-Generator (GRG) that combines document retrieval techniques with a large language model (LLM), by first prompting the model to generate contextual documents based on a given question. In parallel, a dual-encoder network retrieves documents that are relevant to the question from an external corpus. The generated and retrieved documents are then passed to the second LLM, which generates the final answer. By combining document retrieval and LLM generation, our approach addresses the challenges of open domain QA, such as generating informative and contextually relevant answers.”