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Optimizing What Matters: AUC-Driven Learning for Robust Neural Retrieval research paper by ServiceNow, 2025

ServiceNow · Retrieval and data · Sep 30, 2025 · 0 citations · 4 upvotes · unverified

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A new training objective, MW loss, is introduced to improve retriever calibration and ranking quality by directly optimizing the Area under the ROC Curve (AUC), outperforming Contrastive Loss in retrieval-augmented generation tasks.

By Nima Sheikholeslami, Erfan Hosseini, Patrice Bechard and 2 more · arXiv 2510.00137 · PDF

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