NumColBERT: Non-Intrusive Numeracy Injection for Late-Interaction Retrieval Models.

@inproceedings{fujimaki-2026-numcolbert, author = {Haruki Fujimaki and Makoto P. Kato}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{NumColBERT: Non-Intrusive Numeracy Injection for Late-Interaction Retrieval Models}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {380--391}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809688}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809688} }