Binary Passage Retriever (BPR) - an efficient passage retriever for open-domain question answering

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Overview

BPR

Binary Passage Retriever (BPR) is an efficient neural retrieval model for open-domain question answering. BPR integrates a learning-to-hash technique into Dense Passage Retriever (DPR) to represent the passage embeddings using compact binary codes rather than continuous vectors. It substantially reduces the memory size without a loss of accuracy tested on Natural Questions and TriviaQA datasets.

BPR was originally developed to improve the computational efficiency of the Sōseki question answering system submitted to the Systems under 6GB track in the NeurIPS 2020 EfficientQA competition. Please refer to our ACL 2021 paper for further technical details.

Installation

BPR can be installed using Poetry:

poetry install

The virtual environment automatically created by Poetry can be activated by poetry shell.

Alternatively, you can install required libraries using pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Trained Models

(coming soon)

Reproducing Experiments

Before you start, you need to download the datasets available on the DPR website into <DPR_DATASET_DIR>.

The experimental results on the Natural Questions dataset can be reproduced by running the commands provided in this section. We used a server with 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs with 16GB memory in the experiments. The results on the TriviaQA dataset can be reproduced by changing the file names of the input dataset to the corresponding ones (e.g., nq-train.json -> trivia-train.json).

1. Building passage database

python build_passage_db.py \
    --passage_file=<DPR_DATASET_DIR>/wikipedia_split/psgs_w100.tsv \
    --output_file=<PASSAGE_DB_FILE>

2. Training BPR

python train_biencoder.py \
   --gpus=8 \
   --distributed_backend=ddp \
   --train_file=<DPR_DATASET_DIR>/retriever/nq-train.json \
   --eval_file=<DPR_DATASET_DIR>/retriever/nq-dev.json \
   --gradient_clip_val=2.0 \
   --max_epochs=40 \
   --binary

3. Building passage embeddings

python generate_embeddings.py \
   --biencoder_file=<BPR_CHECKPOINT_FILE> \
   --output_file=<EMBEDDING_FILE> \
   --passage_db_file=<PASSAGE_DB_FILE> \
   --batch_size=4096 \
   --parallel

4. Evaluating BPR

python evaluate_retriever.py \
    --binary_k=1000 \
    --biencoder_file=<BPR_CHECKPOINT_FILE> \
    --embedding_file=<EMBEDDING_FILE> \
    --passage_db_file=<PASSAGE_DB_FILE> \
    --qa_file=<DPR_DATASET_DIR>/retriever/qas/nq-test.csv \
    --parallel

5. Creating dataset for reader

python evaluate_retriever.py \
    --binary_k=1000 \
    --biencoder_file=<BPR_CHECKPOINT_FILE> \
    --embedding_file=<EMBEDDING_FILE> \
    --passage_db_file=<PASSAGE_DB_FILE> \
    --qa_file=<DPR_DATASET_DIR>/retriever/qas/nq-train.csv \
    --output_file=<READER_TRAIN_FILE> \
    --top_k=200 \
    --parallel

python evaluate_retriever.py \
    --binary_k=1000 \
    --biencoder_file=<BPR_CHECKPOINT_FILE> \
    --embedding_file=<EMBEDDING_FILE> \
    --passage_db_file=<PASSAGE_DB_FILE> \
    --qa_file=<DPR_DATASET_DIR>/retriever/qas/nq-dev.csv \
    --output_file=<READER_DEV_FILE> \
    --top_k=200 \
    --parallel

python evaluate_retriever.py \
    --binary_k=1000 \
    --biencoder_file=<BPR_CHECKPOINT_FILE> \
    --embedding_file=<EMBEDDING_FILE> \
    --passage_db_file=<PASSAGE_DB_FILE> \
    --qa_file==<DPR_DATASET_DIR>/retriever/qas/nq-test.csv \
    --output_file=<READER_TEST_FILE> \
    --top_k=200 \
    --parallel

6. Training reader

python train_reader.py \
   --gpus=8 \
   --distributed_backend=ddp \
   --train_file=<READER_TRAIN_FILE> \
   --validation_file=<READER_DEV_FILE> \
   --test_file=<READER_TEST_FILE> \
   --learning_rate=2e-5 \
   --max_epochs=20 \
   --accumulate_grad_batches=4 \
   --nq_gold_train_file=<DPR_DATASET_DIR>/gold_passages_info/nq_train.json \
   --nq_gold_validation_file=<DPR_DATASET_DIR>/gold_passages_info/nq_dev.json \
   --nq_gold_test_file=<DPR_DATASET_DIR>/gold_passages_info/nq_test.json \
   --train_batch_size=1 \
   --eval_batch_size=2 \
   --gradient_clip_val=2.0

7. Evaluating reader

python evaluate_reader.py \
    --gpus=8 \
    --distributed_backend=ddp \
    --checkpoint_file=<READER_CHECKPOINT_FILE> \
    --eval_batch_size=1

License

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Citation

If you find this work useful, please cite the following paper:

@inproceedings{yamada2021bpr,
  title={Efficient Passage Retrieval with Hashing for Open-domain Question Answering},
  author={Ikuya Yamada and Akari Asai and Hannaneh Hajishirzi},
  booktitle={ACL},
  year={2021}
}
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