Mohsen Fayyaz
mohsen-fayyaz.bsky.social
Mohsen Fayyaz
@mohsen-fayyaz.bsky.social
CS PhD, UCLA, NLP
Reposted by Mohsen Fayyaz
📄 Collapse of Dense Retrievers

Accepted to #ACL2025 main conference 🎉🎉

In this paper we uncover major vulnerabilities in dense retrievers like Contriever, showing they favor:
📌 Shorter docs
📌 Early positions
📌 Repeated entities
📌 Literal matches
...all while ignoring the answer's presence!
May 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM