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• Mine the Way Your Model Scores: MaxSim Hard-Negative Mining for a Late-Interaction Student

  Updated: 7 Jun, 2026

  The standard way to mine hard negatives for a late-interaction model uses a single-vector cosine teacher, even though the model itself scores with multi-vector MaxSim. So I rebuilt my miner to score the way my model does. Matched mining clearly beat training with no mined negatives, while the cosine approach was barely doing anything at all.