One LLM mechanism handles both retrieval and long-context evidence selection

UNREAL uses a frozen language model’s internal representations to rank evidence across prompts and a 21-million-chunk Wikipedia index.

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Edan Kinderman · Elad Hoffer · Yochai Blau · Brian Chmiel · Ron Banner · Daniel Soudry · +1 more

NVIDIA · Technion

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Kinderman et al.

The authors trained a soft prompt and layer-weighting parameters with a contrastive objective, while leaving the underlying language model unchanged.

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A single frozen LLM with fewer than 500K trainable parameters handles both corpus retrieval and long-context evidence selection.

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