@article{whenhardnegativeshurtbridgingthegenerati,
  title = {When Hard Negatives Hurt: Bridging the Generative-Discriminative Gap in Hard Negative Synthesis for Retrieval},
  author = {Zhicheng Zhang and Jiwei Tang and Kuicai Dong and Xiaopeng Li and Jieming Zhu and Jingyu Li and Qianhui Zhu and Fengyuan Lu and Wang Jiaheng and Gang Wang and Hai-Tao Zheng and Zhaocheng Du},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2606.01304},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01304},
}