LightOn open-sources SlideOn, SOTA sparse retrievers at just 174M and 339M params
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-20
LightOn R&D released SlideOn and mSlideOn, fully open-source SOTA sparse retrievers at 174M and 339M parameters. The team frames it as the next wave after dense and late-interaction retrieval; model weights and an accompanying blog post are available.
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