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[Paper Analysis] On the Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval (Warning: Rant)
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21038 Abstract: Vector embeddings have been tasked with an ever-increasing set of retrieval tasks over the years, with a nascent rise in using them for reasoning, instruction-following, coding, and more. These new benchmarks push embeddings to work for any query an...



