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  "definition": "Retrieval in which a query, an indexed item, or both are represented by multiple vectors rather than a single vector.",
  "id": "multi-vector-retrieval",
  "kind": "Representation",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "modifiedAt": "2026-09-12T21:39:00Z",
  "prefLabel": "Multi-Vector Retrieval",
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    "url": "https://searchplex.net/"
  },
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    },
    {
      "note": "Multi-vector retrieval uses multiple vectors for a query, item, or both; single-vector retrieval collapses each query or item to one vector.",
      "target": "single-vector-retrieval",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
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    {
      "target": "vector-search",
      "type": "related"
    }
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    "json": "https://id.searchplex.net/multi-vector-retrieval.json",
    "jsonld": "https://id.searchplex.net/multi-vector-retrieval.jsonld"
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  "scheme": "https://id.searchplex.net/scheme/",
  "scopeNote": "Late interaction commonly uses multi-vector representations, but multi-vector retrieval is a broader representational pattern and does not by itself imply ColBERT-style interaction.",
  "status": "published",
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}