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title = "Leveraging Passage Retrieval with Generative Models for Open Domain Question Answering",
author = "Izacard, Gautier and
Grave, Edouard",
editor = "Merlo, Paola and
Tiedemann, Jorg and
Tsarfaty, Reut",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume",
month = apr,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.74",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.74",
pages = "874--880",
abstract = "Generative models for open domain question answering have proven to be competitive, without resorting to external knowledge. While promising, this approach requires to use models with billions of parameters, which are expensive to train and query. In this paper, we investigate how much these models can benefit from retrieving text passages, potentially containing evidence. We obtain state-of-the-art results on the Natural Questions and TriviaQA open benchmarks. Interestingly, we observe that the performance of this method significantly improves when increasing the number of retrieved passages. This is evidence that sequence-to-sequence models offers a flexible framework to efficiently aggregate and combine evidence from multiple passages.",
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%T Leveraging Passage Retrieval with Generative Models for Open Domain Question Answering
%A Izacard, Gautier
%A Grave, Edouard
%Y Merlo, Paola
%Y Tiedemann, Jorg
%Y Tsarfaty, Reut
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%D 2021
%8 April
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%C Online
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Markdown (Informal)
[Leveraging Passage Retrieval with Generative Models for Open Domain Question Answering](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.74) (Izacard & Grave, EACL 2021)
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