Naver Labs Europe presents SPLADE
Presented SPLADE — a first-stage ranker based on explicit sparsity regularization
Why it matters
The strand that made lexical retrieval learnable by neural networks. Broke down the dense-versus-sparse dichotomy
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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05720Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week