统一处理科学文献的文档检索与问答检索,提升科研效率。
UniFAR: A Unified Facet-Aware Retrieval Framework for Scientific Documents
- 构建共享表示空间,融合短问题与长文档的多粒度编码
- 通过可学习锚点捕捉语义角色,实现跨任务联合优化
- 在多个数据集上超越基线,适配不同模型架构
科学文献检索在现代科研中至关重要,支持知识发现与基于证据的推理。其发展呈现两种范式:由文档间对比学习驱动的文档-文档(doc-doc)检索,以及由大模型和RAG催生的自然语言交互式问题-文档(q-doc)检索。实际科研工作同时依赖这两种范式,既需根据种子文献查找相关论文,也需根据用户问题定位文献。然而现有方法通常分立处理,难以发挥互补优势。为此,我们提出UniFAR——一个统一的、面向细粒度特征的检索框架,可在同一表示空间中协同支持doc-doc与q-doc检索。UniFAR引入多粒度表示与聚合模块,统一编码短问题与长文档;设计基于细粒度特征的建模机制,使用可学习锚点捕捉结构化语义角色与复杂用户意图;并采用细粒度感知的联合训练策略,整合doc-doc与q-doc对比目标及细粒度对齐约束,实现来自文档间关系与问题导向监督的统一学习。在三个基准数据集上,针对多种骨干模型,在doc-doc与q-doc双重设置下进行实验,结果表明UniFAR持续优于强基线,并展现出良好的跨模型泛化能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Scientific document retrieval (SDR) plays a critical role in modern scientific research, supporting knowledge discovery and evidence-based reasoning. It has evolved along two paradigms: document--document (doc-doc) retrieval driven by inter-document contrastive learning, and question--document (q-doc) retrieval emerging from LLMs and RAG for natural-language interaction. In practice, scientific workflows rely on both paradigms, requiring retrieval of related papers given a seed document and identifying relevant documents given a user question. However, existing methods typically treat these paradigms separately, hindering their complementary strengths. To address this, we propose UniFAR, a unified facet-aware retrieval framework that jointly supports doc-doc and q-doc retrieval within a shared representation space. UniFAR introduces a multi-granularity representation and aggregation module to unify the encoding of short questions and long documents, and a facet-level modeling mechanism with learnable anchors to capture structured semantic roles and complex user intents. It further adopts a facet-aware joint training strategy that integrates doc-doc and q-doc contrastive objectives with facet-level alignment, enabling unified learning from both inter-document relations and question-oriented supervision. Experiments on three benchmark datasets under both doc-doc and q-doc settings across multiple backbone models show that UniFAR consistently outperforms strong baselines and generalizes effectively across different backbones.
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