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BEIR (Benchmarking IR)
BEIR (Benchmarking IR) is a heterogeneous benchmark containing different information retrieval (IR) tasks. Through BEIR, it is possible to systematically study the zero-shot generalization capabilities of multiple neural retrieval approaches.
The benchmark contains a total of 9 information retrieval tasks (Fact Checking, Citation Prediction, Duplicate Question Retrieval, Argument Retrieval, News Retrieval, Question Answering, Tweet Retrieval, Biomedical IR, Entity Retrieval) from 19 different datasets:
- MS MARCO
- TREC-COVID
- NFCorpus
- BioASQ
- Natural Questions
- HotpotQA
- FiQA-2018
- Signal-1M
- TREC-News
- ArguAna
- Touche 2020
- CQADupStack
- Quora Question Pairs
- DBPedia
- SciDocs
- FEVER
- Climate-FEVER
- SciFact
- Robust04
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 10 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
Papers archive 2025-07-28
8 shown of 8 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 311. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exploring ℓ₀ Sparsification for Inference-free Sparse Retrievers | 1 | 2 | 21 Apr 2025 | ran 0 of 4 samples (4 unverified) |
| Towards Competitive Search Relevance For Inference-Free Learned Sparse Retrievers | 1 | 1 | 7 Nov 2024 | not harvested |
| SPLADE-v3: New baselines for SPLADE | 1 | 1 | 11 Mar 2024 | ran 3 of 3 samples (0 unverified; 3 pointer-only for licence) |
| BM25 Query Augmentation Learned End-to-End | 0 | 1 | 23 May 2023 | not harvested |
| No Parameter Left Behind: How Distillation and Model Size Affect Zero-Shot Retrieval | 1 | 8 | 6 Jun 2022 | not harvested |
| SGPT: GPT Sentence Embeddings for Semantic Search | 1 | 23 | 17 Feb 2022 | ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified) |
| SPLADE v2: Sparse Lexical and Expansion Model for Information Retrieval | 2 | 1 | 21 Sep 2021 | not harvested |
| BEIR: A Heterogenous Benchmark for Zero-shot Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models | 3 | 21 | 17 Apr 2021 | ran 3 of 4 samples (1 unverified) |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
93 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
Multiple licenses
Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- CQADupStack (BEIR)
- TREC-NEWS (BEIR)
- TREC-COVID (BEIR)
- Tóuche-2020 (BEIR)
- Signal-1M (RT) (BEIR)
- SciFact (BEIR)
- SciDocs (BEIR)
- Quora (BEIR)
- NQ (BEIR)
- NFCorpus (BEIR)
- MSMARCO (BEIR)
- HotpotQA (BEIR)
- FiQA-2018 (BEIR)
- FEVER (BEIR)
- DBpedia (BEIR)
- CLIMATE-FEVER (BEIR)
- BioASQ (BEIR)
- ArguAna (BEIR)
- BEIR
19 variant names, as the archive lists them.
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