3 papers
cs.IR2026
MICE: Minimal Interaction Cross-Encoders for efficient Re-ranking
Mathias Vast, Victor Morand, Basile van Cooten +3
Cross-encoders deliver state-of-the-art ranking effectiveness in information retrieval, but have a high inference cost. This prevents them from being used as first-stage rankers, b…
cs.IR2026
Reproducing and Comparing Distillation Techniques for Cross-Encoders
Victor Morand, Mathias Vast, Basile Van Cooten +3
Recent advances in Information Retrieval have established transformer-based cross-encoders as a keystone in IR. Recent studies have focused on knowledge distillation and showed tha…
cs.IR2025
Understanding Matching Mechanisms in Cross-Encoders
Mathias Vast, Basile Van Cooten, Laure Soulier +1
Neural IR architectures, particularly cross-encoders, are highly effective models whose internal mechanisms are mostly unknown. Most works trying to explain their behavior focused…