E-SENS: Exclusion-Sensitive Penalization for Negative-Constraint Retrieval

E‑SENS is a training‑free reranking technique designed to improve negative‑constraint retrieval in retrieval‑augmented language models. It works by extracting a compact ‘trap query’ that represents the excluded concept and subtracting the similarity of this trap query from the original retrieval score, thereby reducing the influence of documents that mention the excluded concept. Experiments on the ExcluIR benchmark demonstrate that E‑SENS achieves a clear recall‑violation trade‑off across four embedding models and effectively reduces trap retrieval while preserving recall.

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