[Question] Using T5 as a retriveal model in BeIR

[rahmanidashti]

Hi there,

Is there any way or approach to use the T5 model as a retrieval model in BeIR?

[thakur-nandan]

@rahmanidashti,

Do you have any specific T5 retrieval model you wish to use? Are the model weights publicly available on Huggingface?

Thanks,
Nandan

[rahmanidashti]

@thakur-nandan

Thanks, Nandan! No, I do not have any specific model in mind, can we use the same T5 model that we use to generate the synthetic queries for the ranking? Can we use it to estimate the joint probability of passage and query?

Thanks,
Saeed