SeaKR: Self-aware Knowledge Retrieval for Adaptive Retrieval Augmented Generation
<|reference_start|>SeaKR: Self-aware Knowledge Retrieval for Adaptive Retrieval Augmented Generation: This paper introduces Self-aware Knowledge Retrieval (SeaKR), a novel adaptive RAG model that extracts self-aware uncertainty of LLMs from their internal states. SeaKR activates retrieval when the LLMs present high self-aware uncertainty for generation. To effectively integrate retrieved knowledge snippets, SeaKR re-ranks them based on LLM's self-aware uncertainty to preserve the snippet that reduces their uncertainty to the utmost. To facilitate solving complex tasks that require multiple retrievals, SeaKR utilizes their self-aware uncertainty to choose among different reasoning strategies. Our experiments on both complex and simple Question Answering datasets show that SeaKR outperforms existing adaptive RAG methods. We release our code at https://github.com/THU-KEG/SeaKR.<|reference_end|>
@article{yao2024seakr:,
    title={SeaKR: Self-aware Knowledge Retrieval for Adaptive Retrieval Augmented
  Generation},
    author={Zijun Yao and Weijian Qi and Liangming Pan and Shulin Cao and Linmei
  Hu and Weichuan Liu and Lei Hou and Juanzi Li},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19215},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.19215},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}