Inference-time attention calibration with partial strength reduces positional bias in dense retrievers on SQuAD-PosQ, FineWeb-PosQ and PosIR while preserving nDCG@10.
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Attention Calibration for Position-Fair Dense Information Retrieval
Inference-time attention calibration with partial strength reduces positional bias in dense retrievers on SQuAD-PosQ, FineWeb-PosQ and PosIR while preserving nDCG@10.