Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks

Bolt a retriever to a generator and train them together — knowledge moves out of the weights.

Lewis et al. · NeurIPS 2020 · Reasoning & RL. Read the paper ↗

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What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks?

Bolt a retriever to a generator and train them together — knowledge moves out of the weights.

Who published Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks, and where?

Lewis et al. — NeurIPS 2020 (arXiv:2005.11401).

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