Shamane Siriwardhana

Shamane Siriwardhana has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Question answering, Information retrieval & search; often with Vladimir Karpukhin.

2 papers in our library · 2023–2024

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Improving the Domain Adaptation of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Models for Open Domain Question Answering (2023 · 403 citations)
RAG combines a DPR retriever with a BART generator and an external knowledge base. It was developed and tested only with Wikipedia, and its passage encodings and index stay frozen during fine-tuning. This makes its transfer to specialized fields uncertain. The authors present RAG-end2end, which jointly trains the…
Arcee's MergeKit: A Toolkit for Merging Large Language Models (2024 · 101 citations)
Fine-tuning a separate LLM for every task is costly to store and deploy. It can also erode general abilities through catastrophic forgetting, and it stops related tasks from benefiting one another. Model merging addresses this by combining the parameters of existing checkpoints into a single model with no extra…

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Papers of our library cite their works 178 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 12 citing papers with a page here →.

Updated 24 October 2026