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E2Rank: Unifying Text Embedding and Listwise Reranking for Effective and Efficient Search
arXiv:2510.22733v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text embedding models deliver competitive retrieval performance with high efficiency, but their ranking fidelity remains limited compared to LLM-bas
arXiv:2510.22733v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text embedding models deliver competitive retrieval performance with high efficiency, but their ranking fidelity remains limited compared to LLM-based listwise rerankers, which capture fine-grained query-document and document-document interactions at high computational cost. We propose E2Rank (Efficient Embedding-based Ranking), a unified framework that extends a single text embedding model to perform both retrieval and listwise reranking via continued training under a listwise ranking objective. The key insight is to treat the listwise prompt---constructed from the query and its top-K candidates---as a pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) query, enabling reranking via cosine similarity against precomputed document embeddings without autoregressive decoding. Empirically, E2Rank achieves state-of-the-art results on BEIR, competitive performance on the reasoning-intensive BRIGHT benchmark, significantly lower latency than existing LLM-based rerankers, and improved embedding performance on MTEB---all within a single model.
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Source: arXiv cs.CL | 2026-08-27