Naver Labs Europe @ WSDM CUP | Multilingual Retrieval

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20986v1
• Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:09:01 GMT
• Title: Naver Labs Europe @ WSDM CUP | Multilingual Retrieval
• Abstract summary: This report presents our participation to the WSDM Cup 2026 shared task on multilingual document retrieval from English queries.<n>The task provides a challenging benchmark for cross-lingual generalization.<n>It also provides a natural testbed for evaluating SPLARE, our recently proposed learned sparse retrieval model.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: This report presents our participation to the WSDM Cup 2026 shared task on multilingual document retrieval from English queries. The task provides a challenging benchmark for cross-lingual generalization. It also provides a natural testbed for evaluating SPLARE, our recently proposed learned sparse retrieval model, which produces generalizable sparse latent representations and is particularly well suited to multilingual retrieval settings. We evaluate five progressively enhanced runs, starting from a SPLARE-7B model and incorporating lightweight improvements, including reranking with Qwen3-Reranker-4B and simple score fusion strategies. Our results demonstrate the strength of SPLARE compared to state-of-the-art dense baselines such as Qwen3-8B-Embed. More broadly, our submission highlights the continued relevance and competitiveness of learned sparse retrieval models beyond English-centric scenarios.

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