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Raw static token vectors are a poor fit for MaxSim

Markewich advises against scoring raw static token vectors with MaxSim: it performed worse than standard pooling in the team’s exploration, changes the training target, and assumes contextualized vectors that static embeddings do not provide.

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Exploring Static Embedding Retrieval

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Don't score raw static token vectors with MaxSim. It's worse than the standard pooling, the scoring method is technically changing the training target. MaxSim assumes contextualized vectors and static embeddings are not contextual.

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