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lightonai/GTE-ModernColBERT-v1

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Primitive: /encode · Encode · ModernBERT

This is a PyLate model trained on the ms-marco-en-bge-gemma dataset. It maps sentences & paragraphs to sequences of 128-dimensional dense vectors and can be used for semantic textual similarity using the MaxSim operator.

Long contextMulti-vector

Overview

Hardware: — drives latency, throughput & cost

Size149M params
Tasks /encode · /score
Licenseapache-2.0
Latency104 ms
Throughput28.0K tok/s
Cost$0.0079 /1M tok

Cost is approximate — computed from list GPU prices; your actual price depends on the provider you deploy SIE with.

Embedding

Output typesMulti-Vec
Dimensionsmultivector: 128
Max sequence length8,192
Inputstext

Benchmarks

CQADupstackPhysicsRetrieval

scientific retrieval en

Duplicate question retrieval from StackExchange Physics

Corpus: 38,314 Queries: 1,039
Quality
map at 10 0.3410
mrr at 10 0.3905
ndcg at 10 0.3887
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 21.7K tok/s
Corpus p50 88.1ms
Query 2.5K tok/s
Query p50 68.2ms
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CosQA

technology retrieval en

Code search with natural language queries

Corpus: 6,267 Queries: 500
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.3126
map at 10 0.2347
mrr at 10 0.2366
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 7.4K tok/s
Corpus p50 84.4ms
Query 462 tok/s
Query p50 76.3ms
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FiQA2018

finance retrieval en

Financial opinion mining and question answering

Corpus: 57,599 Queries: 648
Quality
map at 10 0.3126
mrr at 10 0.4641
ndcg at 10 0.3833
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 18.9K tok/s
Corpus p50 106.6ms
Query 2.4K tok/s
Query p50 71.9ms
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LegalBenchConsumerContractsQA

legal retrieval en

Question answering on consumer contracts

Corpus: 153 Queries: 396
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.7773
map at 10 0.7300
mrr at 10 0.7321
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 42.9K tok/s
Corpus p50 192.4ms
Query 3.6K tok/s
Query p50 70.2ms
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NFCorpus

medical retrieval en

Biomedical literature search from NutritionFacts.org

Corpus: 3,593 Queries: 323
Quality
map at 10 0.1392
mrr at 10 0.5808
ndcg at 10 0.3618
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 35.9K tok/s
Corpus p50 101.3ms
Query 1.7K tok/s
Query p50 45.7ms
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NanoFiQA2018Retrieval

finance retrieval en

Smaller subset of the FiQA financial QA dataset

Quality
ndcg at 10 0.5229
map at 10 0.4304
mrr at 10 0.5544
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SCIDOCS

scientific retrieval en

Citation prediction, document classification, and recommendation for scientific papers

Corpus: 25,656 Queries: 1,000
Quality
map at 10 0.0934
mrr at 10 0.2875
ndcg at 10 0.1608
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 30.1K tok/s
Corpus p50 96.3ms
Query 2.1K tok/s
Query p50 68.6ms
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SciFact

scientific retrieval en

Scientific claim verification using research literature

Corpus: 5,183 Queries: 300
Quality
map at 10 0.6943
mrr at 10 0.7095
ndcg at 10 0.7329
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 31.9K tok/s
Corpus p50 118.1ms
Query 3.4K tok/s
Query p50 75.1ms
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StackOverflowQA

technology retrieval en

Programming question answering from Stack Overflow

Corpus: 19,931 Queries: 1,994
Quality
ndcg at 10 0.5067
map at 10 0.4750
mrr at 10 0.4750
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 26.0K tok/s
Corpus p50 127.7ms
Query 52.9K tok/s
Query p50 91.7ms
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