A unified evaluation finds LLM query reformulation gains are strongly conditioned on retrieval paradigm, do not consistently transfer to neural retrievers, and are not uniformly improved by larger LLMs.
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A Reproducibility Study of LLM-Based Query Reformulation
A unified evaluation finds LLM query reformulation gains are strongly conditioned on retrieval paradigm, do not consistently transfer to neural retrievers, and are not uniformly improved by larger LLMs.