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cs.IR2026
Efficiency Optimizations for Superblock-based Sparse Retrieval
Parker Carlson, Wentai Xie, Rohil Shah +1
Learned sparse retrieval (LSR) is a popular method for first-stage retrieval because it combines the semantic matching of language models with efficient CPU-friendly algorithms. Pr…
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…