Understanding Wacky Weights: A Dissection of SPLADE's Learned Term Importance.

@inproceedings{polyakov-2026-understanding, author = {Gregory Polyakov and Harrisen Scells and Carsten Eickhoff}, 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 = {{Understanding Wacky Weights: A Dissection of SPLADE's Learned Term Importance}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {3028--3038}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808562}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808562} }