Qian Zhou
2026
Team HITS at SemEval-2026 Task 4:Enhancing narrative text embedding model training with hard negatives generation and self-distillation
Qian Zhou | Yi Fan | Wei Liu | Michael Strube
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
Qian Zhou | Yi Fan | Wei Liu | Michael Strube
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
We first use Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct model to generate hard negatives from threenarrative dimensions. We then train a Qwen3-Embedding-8B model with a multi-negativecontrastive objective and use self-distllation.