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rasyosef/splade-mini

This is a SPLADE sparse retrieval model based on BERT-Mini (11M) that was trained by distilling a Cross-Encoder on the MSMARCO dataset. The cross-encoder used was ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2.

Architecture
BERT
Parameters
11M
Tasks
Encode
Outputs
Sparse
Dimensions
Sparse: 30,522
Max Sequence Length
512 tokens
License
Languages
en

Benchmarks

CQADupstackPhysicsRetrieval

scientific retrieval en

Duplicate question retrieval from StackExchange Physics

Corpus: 38,314 Queries: 1,039
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 39.6K
Corpus p50 49.1ms
Query TPS 3.8K
Query p50 44.3ms
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CosQA

technology retrieval en

Code search with natural language queries

Corpus: 6,267 Queries: 500
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 17.3K
Corpus p50 45.7ms
Query TPS 2.1K
Query p50 46.1ms
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FiQA2018

finance retrieval en

Financial opinion mining and question answering

Corpus: 57,599 Queries: 648
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 40.1K
Corpus p50 58.1ms
Query TPS 3.9K
Query p50 47.0ms
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LegalBenchConsumerContractsQA

legal retrieval en

Question answering on consumer contracts

Corpus: 153 Queries: 396
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 116.3K
Corpus p50 63.3ms
Query TPS 5.1K
Query p50 50.5ms
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NFCorpus

medical retrieval en

Biomedical literature search from NutritionFacts.org

Corpus: 3,593 Queries: 323
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.3090
map at 10 0.1164
mrr at 10 0.5183
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 69.4K
Corpus p50 59.1ms
Query TPS 1.6K
Query p50 49.6ms
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SCIDOCS

scientific retrieval en

Citation prediction, document classification, and recommendation for scientific papers

Corpus: 25,656 Queries: 1,000
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 53.3K
Corpus p50 51.6ms
Query TPS 3.8K
Query p50 45.5ms
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SciFact

scientific retrieval en

Scientific claim verification using research literature

Corpus: 5,183 Queries: 300
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 70.9K
Corpus p50 55.0ms
Query TPS 6.2K
Query p50 42.5ms
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StackOverflowQA

technology retrieval en

Programming question answering from Stack Overflow

Corpus: 19,931 Queries: 1,994
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus TPS 59.4K
Corpus p50 57.0ms
Query TPS 80.8K
Query p50 56.4ms
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