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Naver Labs Europe presents SPLADE

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Presented SPLADE — a first-stage ranker based on explicit sparsity regularization

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The strand that made lexical retrieval learnable by neural networks. Broke down the dense-versus-sparse dichotomy

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05720

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