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Multi-task retriever fine-tuning for domain-specific and efficient RAG research paper by ServiceNow, 2025

ServiceNow · Jan 8, 2025 · Inference and efficiency · 10 upvotes · unverified 1 year ago

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Instruction-tuned retrieval encoder addresses domain-specific challenges for efficient, scalable, and fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications.

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Patrice Béchard, Orlando Marquez Ayala
arXiv
2501.04652 · PDF
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