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Calibrating Document-Local Boundaries for Contextual Chunk Retrieval
首次提交 2026-11-09 17:17
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摘要
Late Chunking encodes an entire document before pooling at chunk boundaries, preserving document context in local retrieval units. Chunk-level post-training improves context-dependent retrieval, but shared context can make semantically similar same-document negatives difficult to distinguish. We study the local decision boundary between a gold chunk and its hardest sibling. Starting from InSeNT, we analyze InSeNT's within-document gradients and show that the entropy of the conditional negative allocation decreases monotonically with the scaling factor at fixed logits. We propose a two-part framework for calibrating document-local chunk boundaries. The first component adapts the discriminative scale from within-document margins, while the second exposes chunk partitions to attention during document encoding. Experiments on ConTEB and NanoBEIR show that the resulting model improves contextual chunk retrieval across the evaluated encoder settings while retaining competitive passage-level retrieval quality; ablations further characterize the distinct roles of adaptive scaling and chunk-aware routing.
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Calibrating Document-Local Boundaries for Contextual Chunk Retrieval
Late Chunking encodes an entire document before pooling at chunk boundaries, preserving document context in local retrieval units. Chunk-level post-training improves context-dependent retrieval, but shared context can make semantically similar same-document negatives difficult to distinguish. We study the local decision boundary between a gold chunk and its hardest sibling. Starting from InSeNT, we analyze InSeNT's within-document gradients and show that the entropy of the conditional negative allocation decreases monotonically with the scaling factor at fixed logits. We propose a two-part framework for calibrating document-local chunk boundaries. The first component adapts the discriminative scale from within-document margins, while the second exposes chunk partitions to attention during document encoding. Experiments on ConTEB and NanoBEIR show that the resulting model improves contextual chunk retrieval across the evaluated encoder settings while retaining competitive passage-level retrieval quality; ablations further characterize the distinct roles of adaptive scaling and chunk-aware routing.
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