@misc{weller2025theoreticallimitationsembeddingbasedretrieval,
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      year={2025},
      eprint={2508.21038},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.IR},
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}

@misc{gao2022precisezeroshotdenseretrieval,
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      eprint={2212.10496},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.IR},
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}

@misc{weller2024promptrieverinstructiontrainedretrieversprompted,
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      year={2024},
      eprint={2409.11136},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.IR},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11136}, 
}

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@misc{modernbert,
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      year={2024},
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      archivePrefix={arXiv},
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}

@misc{nussbaum2024nomic,
      title={Nomic Embed: Training a Reproducible Long Context Text Embedder}, 
      author={Zach Nussbaum and John X. Morris and Brandon Duderstadt and Andriy Mulyar},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2402.01613},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

@Misc{smolagents,
  title =        {`smolagents`: a smol library to build great agentic systems.},
  author =       {Aymeric Roucher and Albert Villanova del Moral and Thomas Wolf and Leandro von Werra and Erik Kaunismäki},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents}},
  year =         {2025}
}