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Embedding Model Fine-Tuning

Building and fine-tuning custom embedding models for domain-specific retrieval: contrastive learning with triplet loss, the SBERT architecture, MultipleNegativesRankingLoss for efficient training, hard negative mining, and Matryoshka Representation Learning for multi-size embeddings.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain why general-purpose embedding models underperform on domain-specific retrieval tasks
  • Implement contrastive learning with triplet loss (anchor, positive, negative) to train an embedding model
  • Use MultipleNegativesRankingLoss for efficient fine-tuning without explicit negative mining
  • Apply hard negative mining to select the most informative training negatives
  • Describe Matryoshka Representation Learning and when dimension truncation is useful

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contrastive learningtriplet lossSBERTsiamese networkMultipleNegativesRankingLosshard negative miningMatryoshka embeddingsRecall@KNDCGRAG retrievalFAISSsentence-transformersMTEB benchmark

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