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most citedRepresentation Sparsification with Hybrid Thresholding for Fast SPLADE-based Document Retrieval

11 citations · 11 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.IR2026

Adaptive Sparsity Optimization with Learnable Soft Top-K and Per-Term Thresholding for Efficient Retrieval

Wentai Xie, Parker Carlson, Shanxiu He +1

Recent work on neural sparse retrieval has demonstrated strong relevance by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for semantic term expansion. However, learned models paired with…

cs.IR2025

Dynamic Superblock Pruning for Fast Learned Sparse Retrieval

Parker Carlson, Wentai Xie, Shanxiu He +1

This paper proposes superblock pruning (SP) during top-k online document retrieval for learned sparse representations. SP structures the sparse index as a set of superblocks on a s…

cs.IR2025

LSTM-based Selective Dense Text Retrieval Guided by Sparse Lexical Retrieval

Yingrui Yang, Parker Carlson, Yifan Qiao +3

This paper studies fast fusion of dense retrieval and sparse lexical retrieval, and proposes a cluster-based selective dense retrieval method called CluSD guided by sparse lexical…

cs.IR2024

Weighted KL-Divergence for Document Ranking Model Refinement

Yingrui Yang, Yifan Qiao, Shanxiu He +1

Transformer-based retrieval and reranking models for text document search are often refined through knowledge distillation together with contrastive learning. A tight distribution…

cs.IR2024

Approximate Cluster-Based Sparse Document Retrieval with Segmented Maximum Term Weights

Yifan Qiao, Shanxiu He, Yingrui Yang +2

This paper revisits cluster-based retrieval that partitions the inverted index into multiple groups and skips the index partially at cluster and document levels during online infer…

cs.IR2023★ 11 cited

Representation Sparsification with Hybrid Thresholding for Fast SPLADE-based Document Retrieval

Yifan Qiao, Yingrui Yang, Shanxiu He +1

Learned sparse document representations using a transformer-based neural model has been found to be attractive in both relevance effectiveness and time efficiency. This paper descr…