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Wacky Weights in Learned Sparse Representations and the Revenge of Score-at-a-Time Query Evaluation

Andrew Trotman, Jimmy Lin, Joel Mackenzie

arxiv:2110.11540 v2 · 2021-10-22 · cs.IR

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From Tokens to Concepts: Leveraging SAE for SPLADE
Understanding Wacky Weights: A Dissection of SPLADE's Learned Term Importance
The Role of Vocabularies in Learning Sparse Representations for Ranking
From Tokens to Concepts: Leveraging SAE for SPLADE
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arxiv: 2110.11540 · arxiv_version: 2110.11540v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2110.11540 · pith_short_12: OSWOTFXLEEUR · pith_short_16: OSWOTFXLEEUROHM4 · pith_short_8: OSWOTFXL
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