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Drowning in Documents: Consequences of Scaling Reranker Inference
Mathew Jacob, Erik Lindgren, Matei Zaharia +3
Rerankers, typically cross-encoders, are computationally intensive but are frequently used because they are widely assumed to outperform cheaper initial IR systems. We challenge th…
cs.IR2025
FreshStack: Building Realistic Benchmarks for Evaluating Retrieval on Technical Documents
Nandan Thakur, Jimmy Lin, Sam Havens +3
We introduce FreshStack, a holistic framework for automatically building information retrieval (IR) evaluation benchmarks by incorporating challenging questions and answers. FreshS…