arXiv AI

$\mathrm{ECI}_{\mathrm{sem}}$: Semantic Residual Effective Contrastive Information for Evaluating Hard Negatives

arXiv:2603. 20990v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hard-negative source selection for dense retrieval is usually decided only after fine-tuning and downstream evaluation.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

When Hard Negatives Hurt: Bridging the Generative-Discriminative Gap in Hard Negative Synthesis for Retrieval

arXiv:2606. 01304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hard negative mining has become the dominant strategy for training retrievers, yet it faces intrinsic limitations: negatives are bounded by corpus availability, selected by retriever score rather than diagnostic value, and increasingly contaminated by false positives as the retriever improves.

By Zhicheng Zhang, Jiwei Tang, Kuicai Dong, Xiaopeng Li, Jieming Zhu, Jingyu Li, Qianhui Zhu, Fengyuan Lu, Wang Jiaheng, Gang Wang, Hai-Tao Zheng, Zhaocheng Du