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Retrieval

Unlimiformer

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Unlimiformer
The curator’s take

Long-range Transformers with unlimited length input via external datastores.

Key points
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External datastore: Augments pre-trained encoder-decoder Transformers with a kNN datastore to support arbitrary-length input.

02

Training-free: No additional training required - works with existing pretrained Transformers.

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Long-document tasks: Demonstrates usefulness in long-document summarization where context spans many thousands of tokens.

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RAG-enhancer: Could improve the performance of retrieval-enhanced LLMs by providing unlimited lookback over long conversations or documents.

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