Multi-Granularity Guided Fusion-in-Decoder
Eunseong Choi Hyeri Lee Jongwuk Lee
In Open-domain Question Answering (ODQA), it is essential to discern relevant
contexts as evidence and avoid spurious ones among retrieved results. The model
architecture that uses concatenated multiple contexts in the decoding phase,
i.e., Fusion-in-Decoder, demonstrates promising performance but generates
incorrect outputs from seemingly plausible contexts. To address this problem,
we propose the Multi-Granularity guided Fusion-in-Decoder (MGFiD), discerning
evidence across multiple levels of granularity. Based on multi-task learning,
MGFiD harmonizes passage re-ranking with sentence classification. It aggregates
evident sentences into an anchor vector that instructs the decoder.
Additionally, it improves decoding efficiency by reusing the results of passage
re-ranking for passage pruning. Through our experiments, MGFiD outperforms
existing models on the Natural Questions (NQ) and TriviaQA (TQA) datasets,
highlighting the benefits of its multi-granularity solution.