Challenge: Hierarchical Multilevel Contrastive Learning (HMCL) improves text representation for general large language models.
Approach: a new contrastive learning framework is developed to improve general large language models . HMCL integrates 3-level semantic differentiation and unifies contrastive and pair classification into a strategy .
Outcome: HMCL outperforms unsupervised methods and supervised fine-tuning approaches in multi-domain and multilingual benchmarks.

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