Thibault Formal

Background

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

Articles in This Vault

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

Key Contributions

• Co-invented SPLADE
• SPLADE v2 improvements (max pooling, document-only encoding)

Concepts

• SPLADE
• Sparse Vector Retrieval

Collaborators

• Stéphane Clinchant — co-author