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On the Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval

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Main Authors:	Weller, Orion, Boratko, Michael, Naim, Iftekhar, Lee, Jinhyuk
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Information Retrieval Computation and Language Machine Learning
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