The data behind the measurements

Real text. Real questions.

Two retrieval datasets provide shared documents, questions, and relevance judgments for every database.

SciFact

Scientific claims paired with research abstracts and evidence judgments. The workload uses 4,000 immutable documents.

Cached documents
5,183
Selected questions
100
Vector dimensions
384

License: Corpus: ODC-By-1.0; claims/evidence: CC-BY-4.0

BEIR and original dataset authors; Wikipedia contributors for NQ, SciFact authors and cited article authors for SciFact.

200-word title+text prefix; seeded reservoir of documents with relevant documents for selected test queries retained at front. Simulated mutations; no historical replay.

Natural Questions

Questions from real search users paired with Wikipedia passages. Workloads use 10,000 or 100,000 immutable documents.

Cached documents
124,000
Selected questions
100
Vector dimensions
384

License: CC-BY-SA-3.0

BEIR and original dataset authors; Wikipedia contributors for NQ, SciFact authors and cited article authors for SciFact.

200-word title+text prefix; seeded reservoir of documents with relevant documents for selected test queries retained at front. Simulated mutations; no historical replay.

How the subsets are prepared

A fixed seed selects 100 test questions. All documents judged relevant to those questions are retained first; remaining documents are selected with a seeded reservoir. This deliberately preserves relevance judgments inside the tested collection. The resulting scores are not full BEIR scores.

One embedding model, outside the clock

We cache normalized 384-dimensional float32 vectors from all-MiniLM-L6-v2 at revision 1110a243fdf4706b3f48f1d95db1a4f5529b4d41. Input is limited to a 200-word prefix followed by the model’s 256-token limit. Model license: Apache-2.0.

The reference vectors were prepared on Apple MPS. Regeneration on other devices can change floating-point values. Use the exact cache download for byte-identical input data, or report your regenerated cache hash.

The MIT code license does not replace dataset terms. See the full attribution and transformation notice.

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