AGC Paper Outperforms hpool with Attention-Learned Pooling
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-07-07
Following their pooling paper, several methods have emerged to compress ColBERT models into fewer tokens. A recent Attention-Guided Clustering (AGC) paper demonstrates that learning pooling via attention yields better information retention than hpool.
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