3 papers
cs.IR2026
FLASH-MAXSIM: IO-Aware Fused Kernels for Late-Interaction Retrieval
Roi Pony, Daniel Ezer, Adi Raz Goldfarb +3
Late-interaction retrieval (ColBERT, ColPali) scores a query against a document via the MaxSim operator. The standard PyTorch implementation materialises the full query-token x doc…
cs.IR2026
Col-Bandit: Query-Time Top- Estimation for Late-Interaction Retrieval
Roi Pony, Adi Raz Goldfarb, Oshri Naparstek +3
Multi-vector late-interaction retrievers such as ColBERT achieve state-of-the-art quality, but their query-time cost is dominated by exhaustively computing token-level MaxSim inter…
cs.CV2026
VAREX: A Benchmark for Multi-Modal Structured Extraction from Documents
Udi Barzelay, Ophir Azulai, Inbar Shapira +4
We introduce VAREX (VARied-schema EXtraction), a benchmark for evaluating multimodal foundation models on structured data extraction from government forms. VAREX employs a Reverse…