arXiv:2512.17164cs.IR2025-12

用大模型对查询和文档进行主题聚焦的双向扩展,提升检索精准度。

TCDE: Topic-Centric Dual Expansion of Queries and Documents with Large Language Models for Information Retrieval

  • 基于大模型设计双路径提示模板,分别生成子主题伪文档和核心话题句。
  • 在SciFact数据集上相对提升2.8% NDCG@10,优于现有先进方法。
  • 适合需要高精度检索的场景,如学术问答与专业信息查找。

查询扩展(QE)和文档扩展(DE)常被独立应用,但可能导致扩展后查询与文档间的语义错位。为此,我们提出TCDE,一种基于大语言模型(LLM)的主题中心双向扩展策略。在查询侧,通过提示引导LLM识别每个查询中的子主题,并为每个子主题生成聚焦的伪文档;在文档侧,引导LLM将每篇文档提炼为一组核心话题句子。这些输出用于扩展原始查询和文档,建立查询与相关文档间的语义桥梁,提升下游检索模型的匹配效果。在TREC Deep Learning和BEIR两个挑战性基准上的实验表明,TCDE显著优于现有主流扩展基线。尤其在密集检索任务中表现突出,在SciFact数据集上实现NDCG@10相对提升2.8%。结果验证了主题中心与双向扩展策略的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Query Expansion (QE) enriches queries and Document Expansion (DE) enriches documents, and these two techniques are often applied separately. However, such separate application may lead to semantic misalignment between the expanded queries (or documents) and their relevant documents (or queries). To address this serious issue, we propose TCDE, a dual expansion strategy that leverages large language models (LLMs) for topic-centric enrichment on both queries and documents. In TCDE, we design two distinct prompt templates for processing each query and document. On the query side, an LLM is guided to identify distinct sub-topics within each query and generate a focused pseudo-document for each sub-topic. On the document side, an LLM is guided to distill each document into a set of core topic sentences. The resulting outputs are used to expand the original query and document. This topic-centric dual expansion process establishes semantic bridges between queries and their relevant documents, enabling better alignment for downstream retrieval models. Experiments on two challenging benchmarks, TREC Deep Learning and BEIR, demonstrate that TCDE achieves substantial improvements over strong state-of-the-art expansion baselines. In particular, on dense retrieval tasks, it outperforms several state-of-the-art methods, with a relative improvement of 2.8\% in NDCG@10 on the SciFact dataset. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of our topic-centric and dual expansion strategy.

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