cs.IR · 2026-05-25 · No. 9

Information Retrieval, 2026-05-25.

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01 — The papers

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    HARNESS-LM: A Three-Phase Training Recipe for Harnessing SLMs in Sponsored Search Retrieval

    Vipul Gupta, Shikhar Mohan, Lakshya Kumar, Pranjal Chitale, Nikit Begwani, Amit Singh, Manik Varma

    cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.LG

    In the competitive landscape of sponsored search, balancing retrieval quality with production latency is a critical challenge. While large retrieval models based on Small Language Models (SLMs) such as Qwen3-Embedding-4B/8B set strong upper bounds on public benchmarks, their deployment in high-throughput, latency-sensitive environments remains impractical. In this paper, we present HARNESS-LM (HLM), a three-phase training framework for...

    arxiv.org/abs/2605.23572 · PDF

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