2 papers
cs.IR2025
ColBERT-serve: Efficient Multi-Stage Memory-Mapped Scoring
Kaili Huang, Thejas Venkatesh, Uma Dingankar +9
We study serving retrieval models, specifically late interaction models like ColBERT, to many concurrent users at once and under a small budget, in which the index may not fit in m…
cs.IR2025
WARP: An Efficient Engine for Multi-Vector Retrieval
Jan Luca Scheerer, Matei Zaharia, Christopher Potts +2
Multi-vector retrieval methods such as ColBERT and its recent variant, the ConteXtualized Token Retriever (XTR), offer high accuracy but face efficiency challenges at scale. To add…