Pathway to Relevance: How Cross-Encoders Implement a Semantic Variant of BM25

Meng Lu, Catherine Chen 0001, Carsten Eickhoff. Pathway to Relevance: How Cross-Encoders Implement a Semantic Variant of BM25. In Christos Christodoulopoulos 0001, Tanmoy Chakraborty 0002, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng, editors, Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China, November 4-9, 2025. pages 25525-25547, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. [doi]

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