https://www.kshivendu.dev/blog Kumar Shivendu's blog en-us hi@kshivendu.dev (Kumar Shivendu) hi@kshivendu.dev (Kumar Shivendu) Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.kshivendu.dev/blog/if-splade https://www.kshivendu.dev/blog/if-splade Inference-free SPLADE nearly matches full SPLADE quality at 13× lower query latency, no GPU needed at query time. Benchmarked against full SPLADE and BM25 on Qdrant and pyserini. Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT hi@kshivendu.dev (Kumar Shivendu) searchsparse-retrievalnlpinformation-retrieval