Anserini: Regressions for uniCOIL on MS MARCO Passage
This page documents regression experiments for uniCOIL on the MS MARCO Passage Ranking Task, which is integrated into Anserini's regression testing framework. The uniCOIL model is described in the following paper:
Jimmy Lin and Xueguang Ma. A Few Brief Notes on DeepImpact, COIL, and a Conceptual Framework for Information Retrieval Techniques. arXiv:2106.14807.
For more complete instructions on how to run end-to-end experiments, refer to this page.
The exact configurations for these regressions are stored in this YAML file. Note that this page is automatically generated from this template as part of Anserini's regression pipeline, so do not modify this page directly; modify the template instead.
Typical indexing command:
nohup sh target/appassembler/bin/IndexCollection -collection JsonVectorCollection \
-input /path/to/msmarco-passage-unicoil \
-index indexes/lucene-index.msmarco-passage-unicoil \
-generator DefaultLuceneDocumentGenerator \
-threads 16 -impact -pretokenized \
>& logs/log.msmarco-passage-unicoil &
The directory /path/to/msmarco-passage-unicoil/
should be a directory containing the compressed jsonl
files that comprise the corpus.
See this page for additional details.
For additional details, see explanation of common indexing options.
Topics and qrels are stored in src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/
.
The regression experiments here evaluate on the 6980 dev set questions; see this page for more details.
After indexing has completed, you should be able to perform retrieval as follows:
nohup target/appassembler/bin/SearchCollection -index indexes/lucene-index.msmarco-passage-unicoil \
-topicreader TsvInt -topics src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/topics.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.unicoil.tsv.gz \
-output runs/run.msmarco-passage-unicoil.unicoil.topics.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.unicoil.tsv.gz \
-impact -pretokenized &
Evaluation can be performed using trec_eval
:
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -m map -c -m recip_rank -c -m recall.1000 -c src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.txt runs/run.msmarco-passage-unicoil.unicoil.topics.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.unicoil.tsv.gz
With the above commands, you should be able to reproduce the following results:
MAP | uniCOIL w/ doc2query-T5 expansion |
---|---|
MS MARCO Passage: Dev | 0.3574 |
MRR | uniCOIL w/ doc2query-T5 expansion |
---|---|
MS MARCO Passage: Dev | 0.3625 |
R@1000 | uniCOIL w/ doc2query-T5 expansion |
---|---|
MS MARCO Passage: Dev | 0.9582 |
The above runs are in TREC output format and evaluated with trec_eval
.
In order to reproduce results reported in the paper, we need to convert to MS MARCO output format and then evaluate:
python tools/scripts/msmarco/convert_trec_to_msmarco_run.py \
--input runs/run.msmarco-passage-unicoil.unicoil.topics.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.unicoil.tsv.gz \
--output runs/run.msmarco-passage-unicoil.unicoil.topics.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.unicoil.tsv.gz.msmarco --quiet
python tools/scripts/msmarco/msmarco_passage_eval.py \
tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.txt \
runs/run.msmarco-passage-unicoil.unicoil.topics.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.unicoil.tsv.gz.msmarco
The results should be as follows:
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MRR @10: 0.35155222404147896
QueriesRanked: 6980
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This corresponds to the effectiveness reported in the paper.