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A Heterogeneous Benchmark for Information Retrieval. Easy to use, evaluate your models across 15+ diverse IR datasets.

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Evaluate your information retrieval models using over 15 different datasets.

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A Heterogeneous Benchmark for Information Retrieval. Easy to use, evaluate your models across 15+ diverse IR datasets.

beir has 2.3k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 251 times. beir is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2021. beir is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are benchmark, bert, colbert, dataset.

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What is beir?

A Heterogeneous Benchmark for Information Retrieval. Easy to use, evaluate your models across 15+ diverse IR datasets.

Is beir open source?

beir is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Is beir free?

Yes. beir is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does beir use?

beir is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

What language is beir written in?

beir is written mainly in Python.

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