@antoine_chaffin: Party is over, time to regularize ColBERT models to fix efficient ANN MUVERA and SMVE promised to simplify multi-vector…
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The authors found that regularizing ColBERT models fixes the efficient ANN methods MUVERA and SMVE, which had broken on modern ColBERT models, simplifying multi-vector retrieval infrastructure in an unexpected way.
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Party is over, time to regularize ColBERT models to fix efficient ANN MUVERA and SMVE promised to simplify multi-vector retrieval infrastructure but broke on modern ColBERT models We found a fix, and it does the exact opposite of what we expected https://t.co/R3JOJ8kVU3
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