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X-Embedding framework boosts multilingual patent retrieval accuracy

Researchers have developed X-Embedding, a novel two-stage framework designed to enhance multilingual patent prior-art retrieval. The first stage focuses on learning domain-specific representations by aligning patent sections across different languages, while the second stage optimizes for X-category relevance using examination report citations. This approach, which incorporates Matryoshka representation learning, significantly outperforms existing methods like Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B and RoBERTa, achieving a 21.25 percentage point improvement in overall macro Hit@100. AI

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X-Embedding framework boosts multilingual patent retrieval accuracy

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Yuanxiang Huangfu ·

    X-Embedding: Two-Stage Training for Multilingual Patent Prior-Art Retrieval

    Multilingual patent prior-art retrieval requires identifying X-category references that are particularly relevant to the novelty or inventive step of a claimed invention, beyond topical similarity across languages and document views. We present X-Embedding, a two-stage framework …