Efficient text retrieval is critical for a broad range of information retrieval applications such as search, question answering, semantic textual similarity,…
Efficient text retrieval is critical for a broad range of information retrieval applications such as search, question answering, semantic textual similarity, summarization, and item recommendation. It also plays a pivotal role in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a technique that enables large language models (LLMs) to access external context without modifying underlying parameters.