3 papers
cs.IR2025
Exact Nearest-Neighbor Search on Energy-Efficient FPGA Devices
Patrizio Dazzi, William Guglielmo, Franco Maria Nardini +2
This paper investigates the usage of FPGA devices for energy-efficient exact kNN search in high-dimension latent spaces. This work intercepts a relevant trend that tries to support…
cs.IR2025
Blending Learning to Rank and Dense Representations for Efficient and Effective Cascades
Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto +1
We investigate the exploitation of both lexical and neural relevance signals for ad-hoc passage retrieval. Our exploration involves a large-scale training dataset in which dense ne…
cs.DC2024
Power- and Fragmentation-aware Online Scheduling for GPU Datacenters
Francesco Lettich, Emanuele Carlini, Franco Maria Nardini +2
The rise of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models is driving increased GPU usage in data centers for complex training and inference tasks, impacting operational costs,…