arXiv:2608.08940cs.IR2026-08中稿 · CIKM 2026

根据查询难易度动态加权多个推理视角,提升时间检索准确率。

Difficulty-Gated Fusion of Reasoning Views for Temporal Retrieval

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  • 用八维特征捕捉每个查询重写版本的得分分布特性,自适应生成权重。
  • 在Tempo基准上,所有六种检索器性能均提升,最强达nDCG@10=0.303。
  • 无需标注、微调或重排序,适合部署在各类检索系统中。

基于时间推理的时序检索需匹配依赖共享时间逻辑而非词汇重叠的相关文档。将查询扩展为多个显式表达其时间意图的重写版本并分别检索,可提供推理信息,但等权融合排名会浪费精度:对任一查询,仅部分重写版本可靠。本文提出基于查询难度的推理视角门控融合方法。从每个视角提取由软最大熵、得分差、离散度等预测量构成的八维得分分布签名,并通过约一千参数的门控网络映射为每查询的视角权重。融合排名在推理时无需相关性标签、无需重排序、无需微调检索器;门控网络采用留一任务外训练。在 extsc{Tempo} 基准上,该方法提升全部六种检索器表现,涵盖BERT编码器至7B解码器检索器,弱模型收益最大。最强检索器达到nDCG@10=0.297和0.303,配对置换检验显示每查询增益显著(p<0.001)。每查询最优门控可达0.364,当前实现为0.297,揭示尚有提升空间,表明每查询视角选择是下一步关键方向。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reasoning-intensive temporal retrieval requires matching a query to documents whose relevance depends on shared temporal reasoning rather than lexical overlap. Expanding a query into several reformulations that make its temporal intent explicit, and retrieving with each, supplies this reasoning, but fusing the resulting rankings with equal weights wastes accuracy: for any single query, only some reformulations are reliable. We propose query-difficulty-gated fusion of reasoning views. From each view we read an eight-dimensional signature of its score distribution, built from query-performance-prediction quantities such as softmax entropy, score gaps, and dispersion, and a gate of roughly one thousand parameters maps these signatures to per-query view weights. The fused ranking uses no relevance labels at inference, no re-ranking, and no fine-tuning of the retriever; the gate is trained leave-one-task-out. On the \textsc{Tempo} benchmark, the method improves all six retrievers we evaluate, from BERT encoders to 7B decoder retrievers, with the largest gains on the weaker backbones. The strongest retrievers reach $0.297$ and $0.303$ nDCG@10, and the per-query gain over the original query is significant under a paired bootstrap ($p<0.001$). A per-query oracle reaches $0.364$ against our realized $0.297$, exposing headroom that identifies per-query view selection as a concrete next step.

时序检索多视角融合门控机制Tempo

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