EfficientRAG: Efficient Retriever for Multi-Hop Question Answering
Paper • 2408.04259 • Published • 2
Filter component of EfficientRAG — constructs next-hop queries via token selection.
Given the original question + extracted useful tokens, the Filter selects which tokens to keep in the next retrieval query. This is extractive (no generation) — it picks words from the input.
microsoft/mdeberta-v3-base (86M params, multilingual)DebertaV2ForTokenClassification with 2 labels (keep/discard)| Data | 5,691 samples (HotpotQA EN + Dragon-derec RU) |
| Epochs | 2 |
| Batch size | 4 |
| LR | 1e-5 |
| Max length | 128 |
| Hardware | Apple M3 Pro, ~17 minutes |
Base model
microsoft/mdeberta-v3-base