BEIR
BEIR (Benchmarking IR) is a benchmark suite for evaluating information retrieval and vector search systems across multiple tasks and datasets. Useful for comparing vector database performance.
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BEIR
BEIR (Benchmarking IR) is a heterogeneous benchmark suite designed for evaluating information retrieval and vector search systems across a wide range of tasks and datasets. It provides a standardized framework for comparing the performance of NLP-based retrieval models and vector databases.
Features
- Heterogeneous Benchmark: Includes 15+ diverse IR (Information Retrieval) datasets covering different domains and tasks.
- Unified Evaluation Framework: Offers a consistent and easy-to-use interface for evaluating retrieval models across all included datasets.
- Dataset Variety: Datasets span various domains such as web search, question answering, fact checking, financial QA, biomedical, news, and more. Notable datasets include MSMARCO, TREC-COVID, BioASQ, NQ, HotpotQA, FiQA-2018, Quora, DBPedia, FEVER, SciFact, and others.
- Ready-to-Use Datasets: Most datasets are publicly available and can be downloaded and used directly; some datasets require reproduction due to licensing.
- Model and Dataset Integration: Integrates with Hugging Face for models and datasets, facilitating easy experimentation.
- Leaderboard: Maintains a public leaderboard for performance comparison via Eval AI.
- Extensive Documentation: Provides a wiki with quick start guides, dataset details, metrics, and tutorials.
- Python Support: Installable via pip, compatible with Python 3.9+.
- Community Collaboration: Open to contributions and dataset/model submissions from the community.
Pricing
- BEIR is an open-source project and is free to use.
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- benchmarks-evaluation
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benchmark, evaluation, vector-search, datasets
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