LightOn open-sources SlideOn, SOTA sparse retrievers at 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.
Framing it as the next step after the dense and late-interaction waves, the team positions sparse retrieval as the new frontier. Model weights and a technical blog post are both publicly available.
Related event: LightOn Open-Sources SOTA Sparse Retrievers SlideOn and mSlideOn(25 posts)→
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