@lateinteraction: "late interaction is better yeah but it needs a lot of storage" bros in shambles
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A tweet discusses the storage concerns of late interaction models and shares interesting results on hierarchical pooling and asymmetric quantization techniques.
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“late interaction is better yeah but it needs a lot of storage” bros in shambles
Youngjoon Jang (@yjoonjang): Results for hierarchical pooling + asymmetric quantization is also interesting! cc @tomaarsen
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