Microsoft paper proves multivector embeddings offer exponential separation

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Microsoft researchers published "Retrieval Needs Multivectors", formally proving that multi-vector embeddings can be exponentially more compact than single-vector ones for ranking documents, significantly boosting retrieval efficiency.

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