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Primitive: /encode · Encode · BERT

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.

Sparse

Overview

Hardware: — drives latency, throughput & cost

Size11M params
Tasks /encode
Licensemit
Languagesen
Latency56 ms
Throughput56.3K tok/s
Cost$0.0039 /1M tok

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

Embedding

Output typesSparse
Dimensionssparse: 30,522
Max sequence length512
Inputstext

Benchmarks

CQADupstackPhysicsRetrieval

scientific retrieval en

Duplicate question retrieval from StackExchange Physics

Corpus: 38,314 Queries: 1,039
Performance L4 b1 c16
Corpus 39.6K tok/s
Corpus p50 49.1ms
Query 3.8K tok/s
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 17.3K tok/s
Corpus p50 45.7ms
Query 2.1K tok/s
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 40.1K tok/s
Corpus p50 58.1ms
Query 3.9K tok/s
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 116.3K tok/s
Corpus p50 63.3ms
Query 5.1K tok/s
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 69.4K tok/s
Corpus p50 59.1ms
Query 1.6K tok/s
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 53.3K tok/s
Corpus p50 51.6ms
Query 3.8K tok/s
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 70.9K tok/s
Corpus p50 55.0ms
Query 6.2K tok/s
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 59.4K tok/s
Corpus p50 57.0ms
Query 80.8K tok/s
Query p50 56.4ms
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