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answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1 (Encode)

answerai-colbert-small-v1 is a new, proof-of-concept model by Answer.AI, showing the strong performance multi-vector models with the new JaColBERTv2.5 training recipe and some extra tweaks can reach, even with just 33 million parameters.

Architecture
BERT
Parameters
33M
Tasks
Encode
Outputs
Multi-Vec
Dimensions
Multi-Vec: 96
Max Sequence Length
512 tokens
License
apache-2.0
Languages
en

Benchmarks

CQADupstackPhysicsRetrieval

scientific retrieval en

Duplicate question retrieval from StackExchange Physics

Corpus: 38,314 Queries: 1,039
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.4154
map at 10 0.3645
mrr at 10 0.4213
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 44.9K tok/s
Corpus p50 45.2ms
Query 4.5K tok/s
Query p50 37.7ms
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CosQA

technology retrieval en

Code search with natural language queries

Corpus: 6,267 Queries: 500
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.2844
map at 10 0.2180
mrr at 10 0.2069
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 19.0K tok/s
Corpus p50 43.5ms
Query 2.3K tok/s
Query p50 40.6ms
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FiQA2018

finance retrieval en

Financial opinion mining and question answering

Corpus: 57,599 Queries: 648
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.4103
map at 10 0.3338
mrr at 10 0.4965
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 49.3K tok/s
Corpus p50 47.9ms
Query 4.5K tok/s
Query p50 40.0ms
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LegalBenchConsumerContractsQA

legal retrieval en

Question answering on consumer contracts

Corpus: 153 Queries: 396
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.7840
map at 10 0.7315
mrr at 10 0.7315
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 115.6K tok/s
Corpus p50 62.7ms
Query 6.4K tok/s
Query p50 40.8ms
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NFCorpus

medical retrieval en

Biomedical literature search from NutritionFacts.org

Corpus: 3,593 Queries: 323
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.3715
map at 10 0.1440
mrr at 10 0.5870
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 75.8K tok/s
Corpus p50 55.4ms
Query 1.9K tok/s
Query p50 41.4ms
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NanoFiQA2018Retrieval

finance retrieval en

Smaller subset of the FiQA financial QA dataset

Quality
ndcg at 10 0.5563
map at 10 0.4718
mrr at 10 0.6192
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 43.6K tok/s
Corpus p50 44.3ms
Query 4.0K tok/s
Query p50 35.0ms
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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 0.1778
map at 10 0.1046
mrr at 10 0.3078
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 59.1K tok/s
Corpus p50 47.2ms
Query 4.7K tok/s
Query p50 38.2ms
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SciFact

scientific retrieval en

Scientific claim verification using research literature

Corpus: 5,183 Queries: 300
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.7405
map at 10 0.7015
mrr at 10 0.7120
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 75.3K tok/s
Corpus p50 51.0ms
Query 6.7K tok/s
Query p50 39.6ms
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StackOverflowQA

technology retrieval en

Programming question answering from Stack Overflow

Corpus: 19,931 Queries: 1,994
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.5461
map at 10 0.5130
mrr at 10 0.5130
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 62.1K tok/s
Corpus p50 53.0ms
Query 88.2K tok/s
Query p50 52.4ms
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