Rank-DistiLLM: Closing the Effectiveness Gap Between Cross-Encoders and LLMs for Passage Re-ranking.

@inproceedings{schlatt-2025-rankdistillm, author = {Ferdinand Schlatt and Maik Fr\"{o}be and Harrisen Scells and Shengyao Zhuang and Bevan Koopman and Guido Zuccon and Benno Stein and Martin Potthast and Matthias Hagen}, editor = {Claudia Hauff and Craig Macdonald and Dietmar Jannach and Gabriella Kazai and Franco Maria Nardini and Fabio Pinelli and Fabrizio Silvestri and Nicola Tonellotto}, title = {{Rank-DistiLLM: Closing the Effectiveness Gap Between Cross-Encoders and LLMs for Passage Re-ranking}}, booktitle = {{Advances in Information Retrieval - 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2025, Lucca, Italy, April 6-10, 2025, Proceedings, Part III}}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {15574}, pages = {323--334}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2025}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88714-7_31}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88714-7_31} }