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title = "Adaptive Contrastive Decoding in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Handling Noisy Contexts",
author = "Kim, Youna and
Kim, Hyuhng Joon and
Park, Cheonbok and
Park, Choonghyun and
Cho, Hyunsoo and
Kim, Junyeob and
Yoo, Kang Min and
Lee, Sang-goo and
Kim, Taeuk",
editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser and
Bansal, Mohit and
Chen, Yun-Nung",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.136/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.136",
pages = "2421--2431",
abstract = "When using large language models (LLMs) in knowledge-intensive tasks, such as open-domain question answering, external context can bridge the gap between external knowledge and the LLMs' parametric knowledge.Recent research has been developed to amplify contextual knowledge over the parametric knowledge of LLMs with contrastive decoding approaches.While these approaches could yield truthful responses when relevant context is provided, they are prone to vulnerabilities when faced with noisy contexts.We extend the scope of previous studies to encompass noisy contexts and propose adaptive contrastive decoding (ACD) to leverage contextual influence effectively.ACD demonstrates improvements in open-domain question answering tasks compared to baselines, especially in robustness by remaining undistracted by noisy contexts in retrieval-augmented generation."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Adaptive Contrastive Decoding in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Handling Noisy Contexts
%A Kim, Youna
%A Kim, Hyuhng Joon
%A Park, Cheonbok
%A Park, Choonghyun
%A Cho, Hyunsoo
%A Kim, Junyeob
%A Yoo, Kang Min
%A Lee, Sang-goo
%A Kim, Taeuk
%Y Al-Onaizan, Yaser
%Y Bansal, Mohit
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
%D 2024
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Miami, Florida, USA
%F kim-etal-2024-adaptive
%X When using large language models (LLMs) in knowledge-intensive tasks, such as open-domain question answering, external context can bridge the gap between external knowledge and the LLMs’ parametric knowledge.Recent research has been developed to amplify contextual knowledge over the parametric knowledge of LLMs with contrastive decoding approaches.While these approaches could yield truthful responses when relevant context is provided, they are prone to vulnerabilities when faced with noisy contexts.We extend the scope of previous studies to encompass noisy contexts and propose adaptive contrastive decoding (ACD) to leverage contextual influence effectively.ACD demonstrates improvements in open-domain question answering tasks compared to baselines, especially in robustness by remaining undistracted by noisy contexts in retrieval-augmented generation.
%R 10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.136
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.136/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.136
%P 2421-2431
Markdown (Informal)
[Adaptive Contrastive Decoding in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Handling Noisy Contexts](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.136/) (Kim et al., Findings 2024)
ACL
- Youna Kim, Hyuhng Joon Kim, Cheonbok Park, Choonghyun Park, Hyunsoo Cho, Junyeob Kim, Kang Min Yoo, Sang-goo Lee, and Taeuk Kim. 2024. Adaptive Contrastive Decoding in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Handling Noisy Contexts. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 2421–2431, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.