Aamir Shakir
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Latent Terms: Dense Retrievers Contain Trivially Extractable BM25-ready Zipfian Vocabularies
The paper introduces Latent Terms, a method that shows dense retrieval models implicitly learn sparse, Zipfian vocabularies that can be used for classical BM25-style sparse scoring without requiring specialized training or supervision.
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