Google’s Promptagator Creates Task-Specific Neural Retrievers From Only 8 Examples | Synced

In the new paper Promptagator: Few-shot Dense Retrieval From 8 Examples, a Google Research team proposes Prompt-based Query Generation for Retriever (Promptagator), a novel and simple approach for few-shot retrieval that leverages large language model (LLM) prompting to generate synthetic task-specific training data.