LightOn ships SlideOn and mSlideOn sparse retrievers for first-stage retrieval
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-19
LightOn researchers released SlideOn and mSlideOn, two SOTA sparse retrievers designed for first-stage retrieval, to be cascaded with a multi-vector reranker and a decision model. Same release as the accompanying Hugging Face collection post.
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