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Robust04
The goal of the Robust track is to improve the consistency of retrieval technology by focusing on poorly performing topics. In addition, the track brings back a classic, ad hoc retrieval task in TREC that provides a natural home for new participants. An ad hoc task in TREC investigates the performance of systems that search a static set of documents using previously-unseen topics. For each topic, participants create a query and submit a ranking of the top 1000 documents for that topic.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Ad-Hoc Information Retrieval | TREC Robust04 | monoT5-3B (zero-shot) nDCG@20 0.6091 | Document Ranking with a Pretrained Sequence-to-Sequence Model | castorini/pygaggle +1 | 21 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
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Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
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Variants archive 2025-07-28
- TREC Robust04
- Robust04
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