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Build a Domain-Specific Embedding Model in Under a Day

AchievementModelMar 21, 2026

NVIDIA published a tutorial demonstrating how to fine-tune a general-purpose embedding model for domain-specific retrieval using a single GPU in under a day. The pipeline uses synthetic data generation, hard negative mining, and contrastive learning, requiring no manual labeling. Atlassian applied the recipe to its JIRA dataset, improving Recall@60 from 0.751 to 0.951, a 26% increase. NVIDIA reported over 10% improvement in Recall@10 and NDCG@10 on its own documentation dataset.

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NVIDIACompanyAtlassianCompanySteve HanPersonRucha AptePersonSean SodhaPersonOliver HolworthyPersonHugging FaceCompany
Canonical: https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/domain-specific-embedding-finetune