让信息检索具备逻辑推理能力,打通从查资料到做判断的瓶颈。
Tutorial on Reasoning for IR & IR for Reasoning
- 构建统一框架,梳理检索中的推理核心要素
- 整合多类方法,揭示不同技术的优劣与互补性
- 适合想提升系统推理能力的研究者和开发者
信息检索长期聚焦于通过语义相关性排序文档,但许多现实需求要求更强的能力:逻辑约束执行、多步推理、多源证据融合。这本质上是推理问题。当前人工智能领域正发展多种推理解决方案,涵盖推理时策略、大模型后训练、神经符号系统、贝叶斯与概率框架、几何表示及能量模型等。这些方法均致力于超越模式匹配,实现结构化、可验证的推理。然而它们分散在不同学科中,使信息检索研究者难以识别相关进展。本教程首先在信息检索背景下定义推理,并据此构建统一分析框架,将现有方法映射到反映核心组件的坐标轴上。通过全面综述近期方法并定位其在框架中的位置,揭示其权衡与互补关系,指出信息检索如何受益于跨学科突破,并说明检索过程本身可在更广泛的推理系统中发挥核心作用。教程将为参与者提供概念框架与实践指导,推动具备推理能力的信息检索系统发展,并确立信息检索在推理方法演进中的双向贡献地位。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Information retrieval has long focused on ranking documents by semantic relatedness. Yet many real-world information needs demand more: enforcement of logical constraints, multi-step inference, and synthesis of multiple pieces of evidence. Addressing these requirements is, at its core, a problem of reasoning. Across AI communities, researchers are developing diverse solutions for the problem of reasoning, from inference-time strategies and post-training of LLMs, to neuro-symbolic systems, Bayesian and probabilistic frameworks, geometric representations, and energy-based models. These efforts target the same problem: to move beyond pattern-matching systems toward structured, verifiable inference. However, they remain scattered across disciplines, making it difficult for IR researchers to identify the most relevant ideas and opportunities. To help navigate the fragmented landscape of research in reasoning, this tutorial first articulates a working definition of reasoning within the context of information retrieval and derives from it a unified analytical framework. The framework maps existing approaches along axes that reflect the core components of the definition. By providing a comprehensive overview of recent approaches and mapping current methods onto the defined axes, we expose their trade-offs and complementarities, highlight where IR can benefit from cross-disciplinary advances, and illustrate how retrieval process itself can play a central role in broader reasoning systems. The tutorial will equip participants with both a conceptual framework and practical guidance for enhancing reasoning-capable IR systems, while situating IR as a domain that both benefits and contributes to the broader development of reasoning methodologies.
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