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ICICLE: In-Context Retrieval for Generative Indexing

other · 2026-05-27

Generative retrieval (GR) systems integrate document identifiers within model parameters, leading to high costs for corpus expansion and risks of catastrophic forgetting. A recent arXiv publication introduces ICICLE, an in-context indexing framework that utilizes newly incorporated documents as evidence during inference. ICICLE employs a [COPY]-based routing approach, preference-based calibration, and large context adaptation to differentiate between context-grounded retrieval and parametric retrieval. Tests conducted on MS MARCO and NQ320K demonstrate enhanced retrieval performance for newly added documents.

Key facts

  • Generative retrieval maps queries to document identifiers using parametric knowledge.
  • Adding new documents to GR requires updating model parameters.
  • ICICLE is an in-context indexing framework.
  • ICICLE performs source-aware docid generation over parametric memory and context-provided pairs.
  • ICICLE uses a [COPY]-based routing mechanism.
  • ICICLE uses preference-based calibration.
  • ICICLE uses large context adaptation.
  • Experiments were conducted on MS MARCO and NQ320K datasets.

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  • arXiv

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