Stéphane Clinchant

Background

Stéphane Clinchant is a research scientist at NAVER LABS Europe and co-author of the SPLADE paper alongside Thibault Formal and Benjamin Piwowarski.

Articles in This Vault

• SPLADE - sparse bi-encoder BERT model for first-stage ranking 1

Key Contributions

• Co-invented SPLADE — sparse neural retrieval via BERT masked language modeling
• Research on sparse vs. dense retrieval tradeoffs
• SPLADE-V3 (March 2024)

Concepts

• SPLADE
• Sparse Vector Retrieval
• Hybrid Search

Collaborators

• Thibault Formal — co-author