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Intuitively, these negatives are not too hard (\\emph{may be false negatives}) or too easy (\\emph{uninformative}). They are the ambiguous negatives and need more attention during training. Thus, we propose a simple ambiguous negatives sampling method, SimANS, which incorporates a new sampling probability distribution to focusing on sampling more ambiguous negatives. Extensive experiments on four public and one industry datasets show the effectiveness of our approach. Our code and data are publicly available at the link: \\url{<a class=\"link-external link-https\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/SimXNS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">this https URL<\/a>}.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sampling proper negatives from a large document pool is vital to effectively train a dense retrieval model. However, existing negative sampling strategies suffer from the uninformative or false negative problem. 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