Sparse and Dense Retrievers Learn Better Together: Joint Sparse-Dense Optimization for Text-Image Retrieval.

@inproceedings{song-2025-sparse, author = {Jonghyun Song and Youngjune Lee and Gyu-Hwung Cho and Ilhyeon Song and Saehun Kim and Yohan Jo}, editor = {Meeyoung Cha and Carl Yang and Senjuti Basu Roy and Chanyoung Park and Zhenhui Jessie Li and Noseong Park and Carl Yang and Senjuti Basu Roy and Zhenhui Jessie Li and Jaap Kamps and Kijung Shin and Bryan Hooi and Lifang He}, title = {{Sparse and Dense Retrievers Learn Better Together: Joint Sparse-Dense Optimization for Text-Image Retrieval}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 10-14, 2025}}, pages = {5268--5272}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2025}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3746252.3760959}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3746252.3760959} }