Dense Retrievers Can Fail on Simple Queries: Revealing The Granularity Dilemma of Embeddings

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Main Authors:	Xu, Liyan, Su, Zhenlin, Yu, Mo, Li, Jiangnan, Meng, Fandong, Zhou, Jie
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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