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Improving Dense Passage Retrieval with Multiple Positive Passages

Aug 13, 2025

Current dense passage retrieval (DPR) training paradigms typically rely on a single positive passage per query, overlooking the realistic many-to-one semantic relationship between a query and multiple relevant passages. This work presents the first systematic investigation into multi-positive training for DPR and proposes a multi-positive contrastive learning framework built upon the dual-encoder architecture: for each query, it jointly optimizes representations against all annotated positive passages, thereby strengthening negative contrast and enhancing semantic discriminability. Experiments demonstrate that our method significantly improves retrieval accuracy—achieving MRR@10 gains of 1.2–2.8 points—on standard benchmarks including MSMARCO and Natural Questions, without increasing GPU memory consumption. It maintains training stability even under small batch sizes, enabling efficient single-GPU training. The core contribution lies in empirically validating and realizing the effectiveness and practicality of multi-positive supervision for dense retrieval modeling.

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Improving Dense Passage Retrieval with Multiple Positive Passages

Aug 13, 2025

Current dense passage retrieval (DPR) training paradigms typically rely on a single positive passage per query, overlooking the realistic many-to-one semantic relationship between a query and multiple relevant passages. This work presents the first systematic investigation into multi-positive training for DPR and proposes a multi-positive contrastive learning framework built upon the dual-encoder architecture: for each query, it jointly optimizes representations against all annotated positive passages, thereby strengthening negative contrast and enhancing semantic discriminability. Experiments demonstrate that our method significantly improves retrieval accuracy—achieving MRR@10 gains of 1.2–2.8 points—on standard benchmarks including MSMARCO and Natural Questions, without increasing GPU memory consumption. It maintains training stability even under small batch sizes, enabling efficient single-GPU training. The core contribution lies in empirically validating and realizing the effectiveness and practicality of multi-positive supervision for dense retrieval modeling.

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