aggretriever-distilbert

Aggretriever is an encoder to aggregate both lexical and semantic text information into a single-vector dense vector for dense retrieval, which is finetued on MS MARCO corpus with BM25 negative sampling, following the approach described in Aggretriever: A Simple Approach to Aggregate Textual Representation for Robust Dense Passage Retrieval.

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The associated GitHub repository for fine-tuning is available here and the reproduce from pyserini is [here]. The following variants are also available:

Usage (HuggingFace Transformers)

Using the model directly available in HuggingFace transformers. We use the implemented Aggretriever from pyserini here.

from pyserini.encode._aggretriever import AggretrieverQueryEncoder
from pyserini.encode._aggretriever import AggretrieverDocumentEncoder

model_name = '/store/scratch/s269lin/experiments/aggretriever/hf_model/aggretriever-distilbert'
query_encoder = AggretrieverQueryEncoder(model_name, device='cpu')
context_encoder = AggretrieverDocumentEncoder(model_name, device='cpu')

query =  "Where was Marie Curie born?"
contexts = [
    "Maria Sklodowska, later known as Marie Curie, was born on November 7, 1867.",
    "Born in Paris on 15 May 1859, Pierre Curie was the son of Eugène Curie, a doctor of French Catholic origin from Alsace."
]
# Compute embeddings
query_emb = query_encoder.encode(query)
ctx_emb = context_encoder.encode(contexts)
# Compute similarity scores using dot product
score1 = query_emb @ ctx_emb[0]  # 47.667152
score2 = query_emb @ ctx_emb[1]  # 39.054127