SPLATE: Sparse Late Interaction Retrieval — mentioned by jbellis

Thu, 08 May 2025 15:24:52 GMT

I'm kind of disappointed in this article, Splade is a cool way to improve results of a TF/IDF index with minimally invasive changes and this obscures that more than it clarifies. > Next, my SPLADE implementation in Elasticsearch is oversimplified. If you scroll back up to get_splade_embedding, we extract non-zero elements from vec_np (the SPLADE tokens) but discard their associated weights. This is a missed opportunity. The SPLADE papers use these weights for scoring matches. Yes, exactly, that is the whole point of Splade. Probably easier to demonstrate if you drop down a level to Lucene, I…

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SPLATE: Sparse Late Interaction Retrieval — mentioned by jbellis