Preprint
Oct 2026
FLINT: Fixed-budget Late Interaction
This work introduces FLINT (Fixed-budget Late INTeraction), an architecture that uses attention-based pooling to represent each query and document with a fixed number of embedding vectors, and demonstrates that FLINT's effectiveness-efficiency benefits extend across encoder architectures.
H. Handa, Negar Arabzadeh, Matei A. Zaharia
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