cs.IR · 2026-05-25 · No. 9
Information Retrieval, 2026-05-25.
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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...
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