3 papers
cs.CL2025
MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark
Kenneth Enevoldsen, Isaac Chung, Imene Kerboua +83
Text embeddings are typically evaluated on a limited set of tasks, which are constrained by language, domain, and task diversity. To address these limitations and provide a more co…
cs.IR2025
LIR: The First Workshop on Late Interaction and Multi Vector Retrieval @ ECIR 2026
Benjamin Clavié, Xianming Li, Antoine Chaffin +4
Late interaction retrieval methods, pioneered by ColBERT, have emerged as a powerful alternative to single-vector neural IR. By leveraging fine-grained, token-level representations…
cs.CL2024
Smarter, Better, Faster, Longer: A Modern Bidirectional Encoder for Fast, Memory Efficient, and Long Context Finetuning and Inference
Benjamin Warner, Antoine Chaffin, Benjamin Clavié +11
Encoder-only transformer models such as BERT offer a great performance-size tradeoff for retrieval and classification tasks with respect to larger decoder-only models. Despite bein…