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Your Prompt Should Do More: Effects of Retrieval Instructions in Embedding Models
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers found that embedding models struggle to follow retrieval instructions when query-side distractors are present, and fine-tuning with such distractors improves performance.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building retrieval systems using prompted embeddings who need reliable instruction-following for asymmetric search tasks.
- Watch out
- The study focuses on a specific training scenario; results may not generalize to all embedding architectures or retrieval setups without further validation.
- retrieval
- embedding
- prompt
- attention
- eval
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