metadata

language:
  - en
  - de
  - es
  - fr
tags:
  - clir
  - colbertx
  - plaidx
  - xlm-roberta-large
datasets:
  - ms_marco
  - hltcoe/tdist-msmarco-scores
task_categories:
  - text-retrieval
  - information-retrieval
task_ids:
  - passage-retrieval
  - cross-language-retrieval
license: mit

ColBERT-X for English-German/Spanish/French MLIR using Multilingual Translate-Distill

CLIR Model Setting

Query language: English
Query length: 32 token max
Document language: German/Spanish/French
Document length: 180 token max (please use MaxP to aggregate the passage score if needed)

Model Description

Multilingual Translate-Distill is a training technique that produces state-of-the-art MLIR dense retrieval model through translation and distillation. plaidx-large-clef-mtd-mix-passages-mt5xxl-engeng is trained with KL-Divergence from the mt5xxl MonoT5 reranker unicamp-dl/mt5-13b-mmarco-100k inferenced on English MS MARCO training queries and passages. The teacher scores can be found in hltcoe/tdist-msmarco-scores.

Training Parameters

learning rate: 5e-6
update steps: 200,000
nway (number of passages per query): 6 (randomly selected from 50; 2 if using round-robin-entires, see below)
per device batch size (number of query-passage set): 8
training GPU: 8 NVIDIA V100 with 32 GB memory

Mixing Strategies

mix-passages: languages are randomly assigned to the 6 sampled passages for a given query during training.
mix-entries: all passages in the a given query-passage set are randomly assigned to the same language.
round-robin-entires: for each query, the query-passage set is repeated n times to iterate through all languages.

Usage

To properly load ColBERT-X models from Huggingface Hub, please use the following version of PLAID-X.

pip install PLAID-X>=0.3.1

Following code snippet loads the model through Huggingface API.

from colbert.modeling.checkpoint import Checkpoint
from colbert.infra import ColBERTConfig

Checkpoint('hltcoe/plaidx-large-clef-mtd-mix-passages-mt5xxl-engeng', colbert_config=ColBERTConfig())

For full tutorial, please refer to the PLAID-X Jupyter Notebook, which is part of the SIGIR 2023 CLIR Tutorial.

BibTeX entry and Citation Info

Please cite the following two papers if you use the model.

@inproceedings{mtt,
    title = {Neural Approaches to Multilingual Information Retrieval},
    author = {Dawn Lawrie and Eugene Yang and Douglas W Oard and James Mayfield},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)},
    year = {2023},
    doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-28244-7_33},
    url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01335}
}

@inproceedings{mtd,
    author = {Eugene Yang and Dawn Lawrie and James Mayfield},
    title = {Distillation for Multilingual Information Retrieval},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) (Short Paper) (Accepted)},
    year = {2024}
}