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New NHNM Method Enhances Instruction-Following Retrieval Models

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Researchers have developed a new method called Natural Hard-Negative Mining (NHNM) to improve instruction-following information retrieval (IFIR). This technique repurposes original positive documents as natural instruction hard negatives, creating a more effective training dataset. When applied to the MS MARCO dataset, NHNM produced NHNM-MARCO, a set of nearly 7,000 instances. Models trained on this dataset showed strong performance on instruction-following tasks, even outperforming larger models in some scenarios. AI

IMPACT This new method could lead to more capable retrieval systems that better understand and follow user instructions.

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New NHNM Method Enhances Instruction-Following Retrieval Models

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Chaolang Li, Jingyu Li, Zhaocheng Du, Xuyang Xie, Gang Wang, Pengwen Dai ·

    Natural Hard-Negative Mining from Positives for Instruction-Following Retrieval

    arXiv:2610.36900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instruction-following information retrieval (IFIR) requires retrievers to rank documents by both a query and its instance-specific instructions, yet instruction-conditioned contrastive supervision remains scarce. Existing synthetic …

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