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    Search, retrieval & recommendation· 2020

    ColBERT: Efficient and Effective Passage Search via Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT

    Omar Khattab (first author) · 2020

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    arXiv 2004.12832OpenAlex W3034439313

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    Introduced token-level late interaction, balancing neural retrieval effectiveness with scalable search.

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    2020 (from arXiv 2004.12832)
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    2,653 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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    0.525 · computed rank 208 · consensus 0.63, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.818 (2020s · retrieval), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method

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