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DPR
Overview
Dense Passage Retrieval (DPR) is a set of tools and models for state-of-the-art open-domain Q&A research. It was introduced in Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering by Vladimir Karpukhin, Barlas Oğuz, Sewon Min, Patrick Lewis, Ledell Wu, Sergey Edunov, Danqi Chen, Wen-tau Yih.
The abstract from the paper is the following:
Open-domain question answering relies on efficient passage retrieval to select candidate contexts, where traditional sparse vector space models, such as TF-IDF or BM25, are the de facto method. In this work, we show that retrieval can be practically implemented using dense representations alone, where embeddings are learned from a small number of questions and passages by a simple dual-encoder framework. When evaluated on a wide range of open-domain QA datasets, our dense retriever outperforms a strong Lucene-BM25 system largely by 9%-19% absolute in terms of top-20 passage retrieval accuracy, and helps our end-to-end QA system establish new state-of-the-art on multiple open-domain QA benchmarks.
This model was contributed by lhoestq. The original code can be found here.
Usage tips
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DPR consists in three models:
- Question encoder: encode questions as vectors
- Context encoder: encode contexts as vectors
- Reader: extract the answer of the questions inside retrieved contexts, along with a relevance score (high if the inferred span actually answers the question).
DPRConfig
autodoc DPRConfig
DPRContextEncoderTokenizer
autodoc DPRContextEncoderTokenizer
DPRContextEncoderTokenizerFast
autodoc DPRContextEncoderTokenizerFast
DPRQuestionEncoderTokenizer
autodoc DPRQuestionEncoderTokenizer
DPRQuestionEncoderTokenizerFast
autodoc DPRQuestionEncoderTokenizerFast
DPRReaderTokenizer
autodoc DPRReaderTokenizer
DPRReaderTokenizerFast
autodoc DPRReaderTokenizerFast
DPR specific outputs
autodoc models.dpr.modeling_dpr.DPRContextEncoderOutput
autodoc models.dpr.modeling_dpr.DPRQuestionEncoderOutput
autodoc models.dpr.modeling_dpr.DPRReaderOutput
DPRContextEncoder
autodoc DPRContextEncoder - forward
DPRQuestionEncoder
autodoc DPRQuestionEncoder - forward
DPRReader
autodoc DPRReader - forward
TFDPRContextEncoder
autodoc TFDPRContextEncoder - call
TFDPRQuestionEncoder
autodoc TFDPRQuestionEncoder - call
TFDPRReader
autodoc TFDPRReader - call