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Devendra Sachan

3 accepted papers

2022

Improving Passage Retrieval with Zero-Shot Question Generation

EMNLP 2022main

We propose a simple and effective re-ranking method for improving passage retrieval in open question answering. The re-ranker re-scores retrieved passages with a zero-shot question generation model, which uses a pre-trained language model to compute the probability of the input question conditioned…

2021

End-to-End Training of Neural Retrievers for Open-Domain Question Answering

ACL 2021long

Recent work on training neural retrievers for open-domain question answering (OpenQA) has employed both supervised and unsupervised approaches. However, it remains unclear how unsupervised and supervised methods can be used most effectively for neural retrievers. In this work, we systematically stud…

2018

Adaptive Methods for Nonconvex Optimization

NeurIPS 2018poster

Adaptive gradient methods that rely on scaling gradients down by the square root of exponential moving averages of past squared gradients, such RMSProp, Adam, Adadelta have found wide application in optimizing the nonconvex problems that arise in deep learning. However, it has been recently demonstr…