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"KaLM-Embedding: Superior Training Data Brings A Stronger Embedding Model"

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Clean data beats complex architecture for better multilingual embeddings

KaLM-Embedding achieves state-of-the-art performance in multilingual text embedding by focusing on superior training data quality and innovative data processing techniques.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01028

🤔 Original Problem:

→ Current embedding models often overlook training data quality, leading to suboptimal performance in multilingual retrieval tasks

→ False negatives in fine-tuning data introduce noise in representation learning

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🛠️ Solution in this Paper:

→ Leverages Qwen2-0.5B as base architecture with mean pooling and 512 token limit

→ Implements persona-based synthetic data generation using LLMs to create diverse training examples

→ Uses ranking consistency filtering to remove low-quality samples and reduce noise

→ Applies semi-homogeneous task batch sampling to balance training efficacy

→ Incorporates over 20 categories of pre-training data and 70 categories of fine-tuning data

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💡 Key Insights:

→ Data quality proves more crucial than model architecture

→ Task instructions significantly enhance model performance

→ Pre-training impact is relatively minor compared to previous studies

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📊 Results:

→ Outperforms other models under 1B parameters on MTEB benchmark

→ Achieves 64.13% on Chinese MTEB and 64.94% on English MTEB

→ Shows strong multilingual capabilities despite primary training on Chinese and English

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