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A Parametric Memory Head for Continual Generative Retrieval

sigir26-200 · Full research paper · Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Yubao Tang, Maarten de Rijke
Generative Retrieval · 50% Generative Retrieval Efficiency · 50%
Abstract

Generative information retrieval (GenIR) consolidates retrieval into a single neural model that decodes document identifiers (docids) directly from queries. While this model-as-index paradigm offers architectural simplicity, it is poorly suited to dynamic document collections. Unlike modular systems, where indexes are easily updated, GenIR's knowledge is parametrically encoded in its weights; consequently, standard adaptation methods such as full and parameter-efficient fine-tuning can induce catastrophic forgetting. We show that sequential adaptation improves retrieval on newly added documents but substantially degrades performance on earlier slices, exposing a pronounced stability-plasticity trade-off. To address this, we propose post-adaptation memory tuning (PAMT), a memory-only stabilization stage that augments an adapted model with a modular parametric memory head (PMH). PAMT freezes the backbone and attaches a product-key memory with fixed addressing. During prefix-trie constrained decoding, decoder hidden states sparsely query PMH to produce residual corrections in hidden space; these corrections are mapped to score adjustments via the frozen output embedding matrix, computed only over trie-valid tokens. This guides docid generation while keeping routing and backbone parameters fixed. To limit cross-slice interference, PAMT updates only a fixed budget of memory values selected using decoding-time access statistics, prioritizing entries frequently activated by the current slice and rarely used in prior sessions. Experiments on MS MARCO and Natural Questions under sequential, disjoint corpus increments show that PAMT substantially improves retention on earlier slices with minimal impact on retrieval performance for newly added documents, while modifying only a sparse subset of memory values per session.

Assigned reviewers

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1 Yujia Zhou 0002
57
79 Generative Retrieval via Term Set Generation (2024) Generative Retrieval
79 NOVO: Learnable and Interpretable Document Identifiers for Model-Based IR (2023) Generative Retrieval
79 WebUltron: An Ultimate Retriever on Webpages Under the Model-Centric Paradigm (2024) Generative Retrieval
2 Yongqi Li 0001
49
79 Exploring Training and Inference Scaling Laws in Generative Retrieval (2025) Generative Retrieval
79 Multiview Identifiers Enhanced Generative Retrieval (2023) Generative Retrieval
65 Learning to Rank in Generative Retrieval (2024) Generative Retrieval

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Xiaoxi Li 0005 50
Area-chair candidates (6)
Xiaoxi Li 0005 assigned 5015 papers
Xiaoxue Zang 414 papers
Jun Xu 0001 COI: co-author 412 papers
Xiaoyi Zeng 3911 papers
Chenyan Xiong 3815 papers
Fernando Diaz 0001 COI: co-author 3812 papers

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