arXiv:2604.22180cs.IRcs.AI2026-04

用压缩段落嵌入+残差连接,让大模型排序更快更准。

ResRank: Unifying Retrieval and Listwise Reranking via End-to-End Joint Training with Residual Passage Compression

论文配图:ResRank: Unifying Retrieval and Listwise Reranking via End-to-End Joint Training with Residual Passage Compression
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  • 把每段文本压缩成一个向量,再与查询一起输入大模型排序。
  • 零生成令牌,每段只处理1个令牌,推理速度大幅提升。
  • 适合需要快速高效排序的工业级检索系统使用。

基于大语言模型(LLM)的列表式重排序已成为信息检索中实现顶尖排序效果的主流方法。然而,其依赖将完整段落文本输入大模型,带来了两个关键瓶颈:随着输入长度增加,出现“中间丢失”现象,影响排序质量;推理延迟随序列长度超线性增长,难以用于工业部署。本文提出ResRank,一种统一的检索-重排序框架,从根本上解决上述问题。受多模态大模型将视觉输入映射为紧凑标记表示的启发,ResRank采用编码器-大模型将每个候选段落压缩为单一嵌入,再与查询一同输入重排序大模型进行列表式排序。为缓解压缩表示空间与排序空间之间的错位,引入残差连接结构,将编码器嵌入与重排序器的上下文隐藏状态结合。此外,用一步余弦相似度评分机制替代传统自回归解码,彻底消除生成瓶颈。ResRank通过精心设计的两阶段、多任务端到端联合优化策略训练编码器与重排序器,实现检索与重排序目标对齐,同时显著降低训练复杂度。在TREC深度学习和八个BEIR基准数据集上的大量实验表明,ResRank在排序效果上达到或优于现有方法,且无需生成任何令牌,每段仅处理一个令牌,实现了效果与效率的根本平衡。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language model (LLM) based listwise reranking has emerged as the dominant paradigm for achieving state-of-the-art ranking effectiveness in information retrieval. However, its reliance on feeding full passage texts into the LLM introduces two critical bottlenecks: the "lost in the middle" phenomenon degrades ranking quality as input length grows, and the inference latency scales super-linearly with sequence length, rendering it impractical for industrial deployment. In this paper, we present ResRank, a unified retrieval-reranking framework that fundamentally addresses both challenges. Inspired by multimodal LLMs that project visual inputs into compact token representations, ResRank employs an Encoder-LLM to compress each candidate passage into a single embedding, which is then fed alongside the query text into a Reranker-LLM for listwise ranking. To alleviate the misalignment between the compressed representation space and the ranking space, we introduce a residual connection structure that combines encoder embeddings with contextualized hidden states from the reranker. Furthermore, we replace the conventional autoregressive decoding with a one-step cosine-similarity-based scoring mechanism, eliminating the generation bottleneck entirely. ResRank is trained through a carefully designed dual-stage, multi-task, end-to-end joint optimization strategy that simultaneously trains the encoder and reranker, achieving learning objective alignment between retrieval and reranking while substantially reducing training complexity. Extensive experiments on TREC Deep Learning and eight BEIR benchmark datasets demonstrate that ResRank achieves competitive or superior ranking effectiveness compared to existing approaches while requiring zero generated tokens and processing only one token per passage, yielding a fundamentally better balance between effectiveness and efficiency.

信息检索大模型排序高效推理

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