Misnaming 'Late Interaction' as 'Multi-vector' obscures the real issue
lateinteraction · x · 2026-08-25
The author argues that the community often mislabels the 'Late Interaction' paradigm as 'multi-vector retrieval'. The core issue is not the number of vectors but the scoring function. This misnaming may obscure the technical nuances of the approach.
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