What Tracks Hard-Negative Transfer? A Study of Lexical and Semantic Signals

arXiv:2603.20990 · cs.IR, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-03-22 · Read on arXiv

cs.IR, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-03-22

Updated: 2026-10-14

Terminology

• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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