Ori Kelner


2024

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Streamlining Conformal Information Retrieval via Score Refinement
Yotam Intrator | Regev Cohen | Ori Kelner | Roman Goldenberg | Ehud Rivlin | Daniel Freedman
Proceedings of the Seventh Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER)

Information retrieval (IR) methods, like retrieval augmented generation, are fundamental to modern applications but often lack statistical guarantees. Conformal prediction addresses this by retrieving sets guaranteed to include relevant information, yet existing approaches produce large-sized sets, incurring high computational costs and slow response times. In this work, we introduce a score refinement method that applies a simple monotone transformation to retrieval scores, leading to significantly smaller conformal sets while maintaining their statistical guarantees. Experiments on various BEIR benchmarks validate the effectiveness of our approach in producing compact sets containing relevant information.