@article{conventionalcontrastivelearningoftenfall, title = {Conventional Contrastive Learning Often Falls Short: Improving Dense Retrieval with Cross-Encoder Listwise Distillation and Synthetic Data}, author = {Manveer Singh Tamber and Suleman Kazi and Vivek Sourabh and Jimmy Lin}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2505.19274}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19274v1}, }