Pre-training vs. Fine-tuning: A Reproducibility Study on Dense Retrieval Knowledge Acquisition.

@inproceedings{alonso-2025-pretraining, author = {Omar Alonso and Shuai Wang and Zheng Yao and Omar Alonso and Shuai Wang and Guido Zuccon}, editor = {Nicola Ferro and Maria Maistro and Gabriella Pasi and Omar Alonso and Andrew Trotman and Suzan Verberne}, title = {{Pre-training vs. Fine-tuning: A Reproducibility Study on Dense Retrieval Knowledge Acquisition}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025}}, pages = {3276--3285}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2025}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3726302.3730332}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3726302.3730332} }