From Tokens to Concepts: Leveraging SAE for SPLADE.

@inproceedings{zong-2026-tokens, author = {Yuxuan Zong and Mathias Vast and Basile Van Cooten and Laure Soulier and Benjamin Piwowarski}, 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 = {{From Tokens to Concepts: Leveraging SAE for SPLADE}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {2622--2632}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809565}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809565} }