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ModernVBERT: Towards Smaller Visual Document Retrievers
Paul Teiletche, Quentin Macé, Max Conti +4
Retrieving specific information from a large corpus of documents is a prevalent industrial use case of modern AI, notably due to the popularity of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (R…
Context is Gold to find the Gold Passage: Evaluating and Training Contextual Document Embeddings
Max Conti, Manuel Faysse, Gautier Viaud +3
A limitation of modern document retrieval embedding methods is that they typically encode passages (chunks) from the same documents independently, often overlooking crucial context…
ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models
Manuel Faysse, Hugues Sibille, Tony Wu +4
Documents are visually rich structures that convey information through text, but also figures, page layouts, tables, or even fonts. Since modern retrieval systems mainly rely on th…
Towards Trustworthy Reranking: A Simple yet Effective Abstention Mechanism
Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef, Manuel Faysse, Emmanuel Malherbe +2
Neural Information Retrieval (NIR) has significantly improved upon heuristic-based Information Retrieval (IR) systems. Yet, failures remain frequent, the models used often being un…