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Test-Time Compute for Dense Retrieval: Agentic Program Generation with Frozen Embedding Models
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2605.11374v1 Announce Type: new Test-time compute is widely believed to benefit only large reasoning models. We show it also helps small embedding models. Most modern embedding checkpoints are distilled from large LLM backbones and inherit their representation space; a frozen embedding model should. therefore. benefit from extra inference compute without re