Model: uniCOIL (without any expansions) zero-shot
This page describes baseline experiments, integrated into Anserini's regression testing framework, on the TREC 2021 Deep Learning Track passage ranking task using the MS MARCO V2 passage collection. Here, we cover experiments with the uniCOIL model trained on the MS MARCO V1 passage ranking test collection, applied in a zero-shot manner, without any expansions.
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.
Note that the NIST relevance judgments provide far more relevant passages per topic, unlike the "sparse" judgments provided by Microsoft (these are sometimes called "dense" judgments to emphasize this contrast). For additional instructions on working with MS MARCO V2 passage collection, 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.
From one of our Waterloo servers (e.g., orca), the following command will perform the complete regression, end to end:
python src/main/python/run_regression.py --index --verify --search --regression dl21-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shotWe make available a version of the MS MARCO passage corpus that has already been processed with uniCOIL, i.e., we have performed model inference on every document and stored the output sparse vectors. Thus, no neural inference is involved.
From any machine, the following command will download the corpus and perform the complete regression, end to end:
python src/main/python/run_regression.py --download --index --verify --search --regression dl21-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shotThe run_regression.py script automates the following steps, but if you want to perform each step manually, simply copy/paste from the commands below and you'll obtain the same regression results.
Download, unpack, and prepare the corpus:
# Download
wget https://rgw.cs.uwaterloo.ca/JIMMYLIN-bucket0/data/msmarco_v2_passage_unicoil_noexp_0shot.tar -P collections/
# Unpack
tar -xvf collections/msmarco_v2_passage_unicoil_noexp_0shot.tar -C collections/
# Rename (indexer is expecting corpus under a slightly different name)
mv collections/msmarco_v2_passage_unicoil_noexp_0shot collections/msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shotTo confirm, msmarco_v2_passage_unicoil_noexp_0shot.tar is 24 GB and has an MD5 checksum of d9cc1ed3049746e68a2c91bf90e5212d.
With the corpus downloaded, the following command will perform the remaining steps below:
python src/main/python/run_regression.py --index --verify --search --regression dl21-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot \
--corpus-path collections/msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shotSample indexing command:
target/appassembler/bin/IndexCollection \
-collection JsonVectorCollection \
-input /path/to/msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot \
-index indexes/lucene-index.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot/ \
-generator DefaultLuceneDocumentGenerator \
-threads 24 -impact -pretokenized -storeRaw \
>& logs/log.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot &
The path /path/to/msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot/ should point to the corpus downloaded above.
The important indexing options to note here are -impact -pretokenized: the first tells Anserini not to encode BM25 doclengths into Lucene's norms (which is the default) and the second option says not to apply any additional tokenization on the uniCOIL tokens.
Upon completion, we should have an index with 138,364,198 documents.
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 53 topics for which NIST has provided judgments as part of the TREC 2021 Deep Learning Track.
The original data can be found here.
After indexing has completed, you should be able to perform retrieval as follows:
target/appassembler/bin/SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot/ \
-topics src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.tsv.gz \
-topicreader TsvInt \
-output runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt \
-impact -pretokenized &
target/appassembler/bin/SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot/ \
-topics src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.tsv.gz \
-topicreader TsvInt \
-output runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot+rm3.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt \
-impact -pretokenized -rm3 -collection JsonVectorCollection &
target/appassembler/bin/SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot/ \
-topics src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.tsv.gz \
-topicreader TsvInt \
-output runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot+rocchio.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt \
-impact -pretokenized -rocchio -collection JsonVectorCollection &
Evaluation can be performed using trec_eval:
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -M 100 -m map -l 2 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -M 100 -m recip_rank -l 2 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -m ndcg_cut.10 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -m recall.100 -l 2 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -m recall.1000 -l 2 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -M 100 -m map -l 2 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot+rm3.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -M 100 -m recip_rank -l 2 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot+rm3.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -m ndcg_cut.10 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot+rm3.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -m recall.100 -l 2 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot+rm3.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -m recall.1000 -l 2 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot+rm3.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -M 100 -m map -l 2 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot+rocchio.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -M 100 -m recip_rank -l 2 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot+rocchio.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -m ndcg_cut.10 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot+rocchio.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -m recall.100 -l 2 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot+rocchio.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -c -m recall.1000 -l 2 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.dl21-passage.txt runs/run.msmarco-v2-passage-unicoil-noexp-0shot.unicoil-noexp-0shot+rocchio.topics.dl21.unicoil-noexp.0shot.txt
With the above commands, you should be able to reproduce the following results:
| MAP@100 | uniCOIL (noexp) zero-shot | +RM3 | +Rocchio |
|---|---|---|---|
| DL21 (Passage) | 0.2193 | 0.2599 | 0.2666 |
| MRR@100 | uniCOIL (noexp) zero-shot | +RM3 | +Rocchio |
| DL21 (Passage) | 0.6991 | 0.7144 | 0.7526 |
| nDCG@10 | uniCOIL (noexp) zero-shot | +RM3 | +Rocchio |
| DL21 (Passage) | 0.5756 | 0.5933 | 0.6088 |
| R@100 | uniCOIL (noexp) zero-shot | +RM3 | +Rocchio |
| DL21 (Passage) | 0.4246 | 0.4811 | 0.4728 |
| R@1000 | uniCOIL (noexp) zero-shot | +RM3 | +Rocchio |
| DL21 (Passage) | 0.6897 | 0.7309 | 0.7509 |
This run roughly corresponds to run d_unicoil0 submitted to the TREC 2021 Deep Learning Track under the "baseline" group.
The difference is that here we are using pre-encoded queries, whereas the official submission performed query encoding on the fly.
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