Model: cosDPR-distil with quantized HNSW indexes (using cached queries)
This page describes regression experiments, integrated into Anserini's regression testing framework, using the cosDPR-distil model on the MS MARCO passage ranking task, as described in the following paper:
Xueguang Ma, Tommaso Teofili, and Jimmy Lin. Anserini Gets Dense Retrieval: Integration of Lucene's HNSW Indexes. Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023), October 2023, pages 5366–5370, Birmingham, the United Kingdom.
In these experiments, we are using cached queries (i.e., cached results of query encoding).
The exact configurations for these regressions are stored in this YAML file.
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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 msmarco-v1-passage.cos-dpr-distil.hnsw-int8.cachedWe make available a version of the MS MARCO Passage Corpus that has already been encoded with cosDPR-distil.
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 msmarco-v1-passage.cos-dpr-distil.hnsw-int8.cachedThe 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 the corpus and unpack into collections/:
wget https://rgw.cs.uwaterloo.ca/pyserini/data/msmarco-passage-cos-dpr-distil.tar -P collections/
tar xvf collections/msmarco-passage-cos-dpr-distil.tar -C collections/To confirm, msmarco-passage-cos-dpr-distil.tar is 57 GB and has MD5 checksum e20ffbc8b5e7f760af31298aefeaebbd.
With the corpus downloaded, the following command will perform the remaining steps below:
python src/main/python/run_regression.py --index --verify --search --regression msmarco-v1-passage.cos-dpr-distil.hnsw-int8.cached \
--corpus-path collections/msmarco-passage-cos-dpr-distilSample indexing command, building quantized HNSW indexes:
bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
-threads 16 \
-collection JsonDenseVectorCollection \
-input /path/to/msmarco-passage-cos-dpr-distil \
-generator DenseVectorDocumentGenerator \
-index indexes/lucene-hnsw-int8.msmarco-v1-passage.cos-dpr-distil/ \
-M 16 -efC 100 -quantize.int8 \
>& logs/log.msmarco-passage-cos-dpr-distil &The path /path/to/msmarco-passage-cos-dpr-distil/ should point to the corpus downloaded above.
Upon completion, we should have an index with 8,841,823 documents.
Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's NoMergePolicy merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
Furthermore, we are using Lucene's Automatic Byte Quantization feature, which increase the on-disk footprint of the indexes since we're storing both the int8 quantized vectors and the float32 vectors, but only the int8 quantized vectors need to be loaded into memory.
See issue #2292 for some experiments reporting the performance impact.
Topics and qrels are stored here, which is linked to the Anserini repo as a submodule. 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 using HNSW indexes:
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchHnswDenseVectors \
-index indexes/lucene-hnsw-int8.msmarco-v1-passage.cos-dpr-distil/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.cos-dpr-distil.jsonl.gz \
-topicReader JsonIntVector \
-output runs/run.msmarco-passage-cos-dpr-distil.cos-dpr-distil-hnsw-int8-cached.topics.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.cos-dpr-distil.jsonl.txt \
-hits 1000 -efSearch 1000 -threads 16 &Evaluation can be performed using trec_eval:
bin/trec_eval -c -m map tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.txt runs/run.msmarco-passage-cos-dpr-distil.cos-dpr-distil-hnsw-int8-cached.topics.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.cos-dpr-distil.jsonl.txt
bin/trec_eval -c -M 10 -m recip_rank tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.txt runs/run.msmarco-passage-cos-dpr-distil.cos-dpr-distil-hnsw-int8-cached.topics.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.cos-dpr-distil.jsonl.txt
bin/trec_eval -c -m recall.100 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.txt runs/run.msmarco-passage-cos-dpr-distil.cos-dpr-distil-hnsw-int8-cached.topics.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.cos-dpr-distil.jsonl.txt
bin/trec_eval -c -m recall.1000 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.txt runs/run.msmarco-passage-cos-dpr-distil.cos-dpr-distil-hnsw-int8-cached.topics.msmarco-passage.dev-subset.cos-dpr-distil.jsonl.txtWith the above commands, you should be able to reproduce the following results:
| AP@1000 | cosDPR-distil |
|---|---|
| MS MARCO Passage: Dev | 0.394 |
| RR@10 | cosDPR-distil |
| MS MARCO Passage: Dev | 0.390 |
| R@100 | cosDPR-distil |
| MS MARCO Passage: Dev | 0.908 |
| R@1000 | cosDPR-distil |
| MS MARCO Passage: Dev | 0.980 |
The above figures are from running brute-force search with cached queries on non-quantized flat indexes. With cached queries on quantized HNSW indexes, observed results are likely to differ; scores may be lower by up to 0.01, sometimes more. Note that both HNSW indexing and quantization are non-deterministic (i.e., results may differ slightly between trials).
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