no code implementations • 28 Aug 2024 • Qianyi Zhao, Chen Qu, Cen Chen, Mingyuan Fan, Yanhao Wang
Specifically, FedMCP adds two lightweight adapter modules, i. e., the global adapter and the private adapter, to the frozen PLMs within clients.
1 code implementation • 29 Jul 2024 • Fengran Mo, Chen Qu, Kelong Mao, Yihong Wu, Zhan Su, Kaiyu Huang, Jian-Yun Nie
In this paper, we leverage both rewritten queries and relevance judgments in the conversational search data to train a better query representation model.
1 code implementation • 17 Mar 2024 • Fengran Mo, Bole Yi, Kelong Mao, Chen Qu, Kaiyu Huang, Jian-Yun Nie
Conversational search provides a more convenient interface for users to search by allowing multi-turn interaction with the search engine.
1 code implementation • 30 Jan 2024 • Fengran Mo, Chen Qu, Kelong Mao, Tianyu Zhu, Zhan Su, Kaiyu Huang, Jian-Yun Nie
To address the aforementioned issues, we propose a History-Aware Conversational Dense Retrieval (HAConvDR) system, which incorporates two ideas: context-denoised query reformulation and automatic mining of supervision signals based on the actual impact of historical turns.
1 code implementation • 14 Apr 2022 • Zhe Dong, Jianmo Ni, Daniel M. Bikel, Enrique Alfonseca, YuAn Wang, Chen Qu, Imed Zitouni
We further explore and explain why parameter sharing in projection layer significantly improves the efficacy of the dual encoders, by directly probing the embedding spaces of the two encoder towers with t-SNE algorithm.
2 code implementations • 15 Dec 2021 • Jianmo Ni, Chen Qu, Jing Lu, Zhuyun Dai, Gustavo Hernández Ábrego, Ji Ma, Vincent Y. Zhao, Yi Luan, Keith B. Hall, Ming-Wei Chang, Yinfei Yang
With multi-stage training, surprisingly, scaling up the model size brings significant improvement on a variety of retrieval tasks, especially for out-of-domain generalization.
Ranked #9 on Zero-shot Text Search on BEIR
1 code implementation • 9 May 2021 • Chen Qu, Hamed Zamani, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Erik Learned-Miller
We first conduct sparse retrieval with BM25 and study expanding the question with object names and image captions.
no code implementations • 15 Apr 2021 • Chen Qu, Weize Kong, Liu Yang, Mingyang Zhang, Michael Bendersky, Marc Najork
We investigate the privacy and utility implications of applying dx-privacy, a variant of Local Differential Privacy, to BERT fine-tuning in NLU applications.
1 code implementation • 3 Mar 2021 • Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Cen Chen, W. Bruce Croft, Kalpesh Krishna, Mohit Iyyer
Our method is more flexible as it can handle both span answers and freeform answers.
1 code implementation • 22 May 2020 • Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Cen Chen, Minghui Qiu, W. Bruce Croft, Mohit Iyyer
We build an end-to-end system for ORConvQA, featuring a retriever, a reranker, and a reader that are all based on Transformers.
1 code implementation • 3 Feb 2020 • Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Chen Qu, Cen Chen, Jiafeng Guo, Yongfeng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Haiqing Chen
We also perform case studies and analysis of learned user intent and its impact on response ranking in information-seeking conversations to provide interpretation of results.
2 code implementations • 26 Aug 2019 • Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Yongfeng Zhang, Cen Chen, W. Bruce Croft, Mohit Iyyer
First, we propose a positional history answer embedding method to encode conversation history with position information using BERT in a natural way.
1 code implementation • 14 May 2019 • Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, W. Bruce Croft, Yongfeng Zhang, Mohit Iyyer
One of the major challenges to multi-turn conversational search is to model the conversation history to answer the current question.
1 code implementation • 19 Apr 2019 • Liu Yang, Junjie Hu, Minghui Qiu, Chen Qu, Jianfeng Gao, W. Bruce Croft, Xiaodong Liu, Yelong Shen, Jingjing Liu
In this paper, we propose a hybrid neural conversation model that combines the merits of both response retrieval and generation methods.
no code implementations • 11 Jan 2019 • Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Bruce Croft, Falk Scholer, Yongfeng Zhang
Information retrieval systems are evolving from document retrieval to answer retrieval.
1 code implementation • 11 Jan 2019 • Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Bruce Croft, Yongfeng Zhang, Johanne R. Trippas, Minghui Qiu
Due to the limited communication bandwidth in conversational search, it is important for conversational assistants to accurately detect and predict user intent in information-seeking conversations.
no code implementations • 30 Dec 2018 • Chen Qu, Feng Ji, Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Zhiyu Min, Haiqing Chen, Jun Huang, W. Bruce Croft
Specifically, the data selector "acts" on the source domain data to find a subset for optimization of the TL model, and the performance of the TL model can provide "rewards" in turn to update the selector.
1 code implementation • 1 May 2018 • Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Chen Qu, Jiafeng Guo, Yongfeng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Jun Huang, Haiqing Chen
Our models and research findings provide new insights on how to utilize external knowledge with deep neural models for response selection and have implications for the design of the next generation of information-seeking conversation systems.
no code implementations • 23 Apr 2018 • Chen Qu, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Johanne R. Trippas, Yongfeng Zhang, Minghui Qiu
Understanding and characterizing how people interact in information-seeking conversations is crucial in developing conversational search systems.