DEX-Comp Compresses RAG Context 16x While Matching or Beating Uncompressed Baselines
_reachsumit · x · 2026-09-07
A new arXiv paper proposes DEX-Comp, a two-stage training recipe for soft context compression in RAG that breaks past the ceiling of distillation-only approaches:
- Pure Distillation: warm-starts the compression model via imitation on correct responses from uncompressed RAG only;
- Hard Exploration: runs reinforcement learning solely on queries where uncompressed RAG fails, pushing the model toward computation patterns better suited to compressed representations.
Across five open-domain QA benchmarks at retrieval depths from top-5 to top-30, DEX-Comp compresses retrieved contexts 16x, speeds up inference 4x–24x, and matches or exceeds the uncompressed RAG baseline. Ablations confirm each stage's contribution and generalization across datasets and backbones.
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