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How do you adapt an embedding model to a specialized domain?

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Fine-tune on query-passage pairs from your search logs or synthetic pairs from a teacher LLM.

LLMs use tokens (not full words) because it helps them:

This is a process

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Stable token IDs

Each piece maps to a number the network can learn.

Fits the model

Fixed pieces are what transformers expect as input.

Before the model can read a sentence, it goes through these steps:

1
Fine-tune on query-passage pairs
from your search logs or synthetic pairs from a teacher LLM.
2
Hard negatives matter more
than raw volume.
3
After adaptation you must
rebuild the entire vector index.
4
Context mix
Attention looks at nearby tokens together.
5
Next token
The model scores what should come next.
6
Decode
IDs turn back into readable text.

Let's see how a real sentence is tokenized (tokens may vary by model):

Input text

“Hard negatives matter more than raw volume.”

Tokenized output

Hardnegativesmattermorethanraw

Token IDs (example)

2987408337471632900

Note: Actual tokens and IDs depend on the tokenizer (e.g., GPT, Llama, etc.).

Fine-tune on query-passage pairs from your search logs or synthetic pairs from a teacher LLM. Hard negatives matter more than raw volume.