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    "abstract": "Late-interaction retrieval models like ColBERT achieve superior accuracy by enabling token-level interactions, but their computational cost hinders scalability and integration with Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS). We introduce FastLane, a novel retrieval framework that dynamically routes queries to their most informative representations, eliminating redundant token comparisons. FastLane employs a learnable routing mechanism optimized alongside the embedding model, leveraging self-attention and differentiable selection to maximize efficiency. Our approach reduces computational complexity by up to 30x while maintaining competitive retrieval performance. By bridging late-interaction models with ANNS, FastLane enables scalable, low-latency retrieval, making it feasible for large-scale applications such as search engines, recommendation systems, and question-answering platforms. This work opens pathways for multi-lingual, multi-modal, and long-context retrieval, pushing the frontier of efficient and adaptive information retrieval.",
    "arxiv_id": "2601.06389",
    "authors": [
      "Ramnath Kumar",
      "Prateek Jain",
      "Cho-Jui Hsieh"
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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "title": "FastLane: Efficient Routed Systems for Late-Interaction Retrieval",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06389",
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