ERNIE-Search: Bridging Cross-Encoder with Dual-Encoder via Self On-the-fly Distillation for Dense Passage Retrieval

no code implementations • 18 May 2022 • Yuxiang Lu, Yiding Liu, Jiaxiang Liu, Yunsheng Shi, Zhengjie Huang, Shikun Feng Yu Sun, Hao Tian, Hua Wu, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Haifeng Wang

Our method 1) introduces a self on-the-fly distillation method that can effectively distill late interaction (i. e., ColBERT) to vanilla dual-encoder, and 2) incorporates a cascade distillation process to further improve the performance with a cross-encoder teacher.

Knowledge Distillation Open-Domain Question Answering +2