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lightonai/Reason-ModernColBERT

Reason-ModernColBERT is a late interaction model trained on the reasonir-hq dataset. It achieves extremely competitive performance on the BRIGHT benchmark aimed at evaluating reasoning-intensive retrieval performance, outperforming all existing models up to 7B (more than 45 times its size) and ev...

Architecture
ModernBERT
Parameters
149M
Tasks
Encode
Outputs
Multi-Vec
Dimensions
Multi-Vec: 128
Max Sequence Length
8,192 tokens
License
cc-by-nc-4.0
Languages
en

Benchmarks

CQADupstackPhysicsRetrieval

scientific retrieval en

Duplicate question retrieval from StackExchange Physics

Corpus: 38,314 Queries: 1,039
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.4382
map at 10 0.3824
mrr at 10 0.4397
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 29.6K
Corpus p50 61.0ms
Query TPS 2.9K
Query p50 57.8ms
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CosQA

technology retrieval en

Code search with natural language queries

Corpus: 6,267 Queries: 500
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.3443
map at 10 0.2641
mrr at 10 0.2620
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 12.7K
Corpus p50 60.8ms
Query TPS 1.6K
Query p50 59.1ms
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FiQA2018

finance retrieval en

Financial opinion mining and question answering

Corpus: 57,599 Queries: 648
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.4081
map at 10 0.3315
mrr at 10 0.4936
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 30.7K
Corpus p50 71.5ms
Query TPS 3.0K
Query p50 59.6ms
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LegalBenchConsumerContractsQA

legal retrieval en

Question answering on consumer contracts

Corpus: 153 Queries: 396
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.7777
map at 10 0.7287
mrr at 10 0.7307
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 50.0K
Corpus p50 144.2ms
Query TPS 4.2K
Query p50 60.7ms
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NFCorpus

medical retrieval en

Biomedical literature search from NutritionFacts.org

Corpus: 3,593 Queries: 323
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.3580
map at 10 0.1342
mrr at 10 0.5702
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 44.6K
Corpus p50 89.2ms
Query TPS 1.4K
Query p50 56.3ms
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SCIDOCS

scientific retrieval en

Citation prediction, document classification, and recommendation for scientific papers

Corpus: 25,656 Queries: 1,000
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.1710
map at 10 0.0986
mrr at 10 0.2991
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 27.0K
Corpus p50 80.8ms
Query TPS 2.8K
Query p50 60.8ms
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SciFact

scientific retrieval en

Scientific claim verification using research literature

Corpus: 5,183 Queries: 300
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.7380
map at 10 0.6953
mrr at 10 0.7076
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 41.6K
Corpus p50 83.7ms
Query TPS 4.1K
Query p50 60.4ms
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StackOverflowQA

technology retrieval en

Programming question answering from Stack Overflow

Corpus: 19,931 Queries: 1,994
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.5934
map at 10 0.5591
mrr at 10 0.5591
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 35.4K
Corpus p50 84.4ms
Query TPS 62.1K
Query p50 75.3ms
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