# Medical Information Retrieval on R2MED (original queries)

Source: [Medical Information Retrieval on R2MED (original queries)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/medical-information-retrieval-on-r2med-original-queries>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2026-04-21T11:15:55.962Z

Evaluation of Medical Information Retrieval performance using the original query set of the R2MED dataset, measured using various nDCG@10 sub-metrics.

A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage.

| Scope | Recorded value |
| --- | --- |
| Task | Medical Information Retrieval |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | R2MED (original queries) |
| Metric | Average (nDCG@10) |
| Unit | PERCENT |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 19 of 19 |
| Coverage | All results currently returned for this benchmark |

Evaluation settings may differ between results. The original papers and recorded configurations are needed to establish comparability. A shared metric name alone does not establish an identical protocol.

## Metrics

- [Average (nDCG@10)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/medical-information-retrieval-on-r2med-original-queries.md?metric=Average%20(nDCG%4010)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Biology (nDCG@10)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/medical-information-retrieval-on-r2med-original-queries.md?metric=Biology%20(nDCG%4010)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Bioin. (nDCG@10)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/medical-information-retrieval-on-r2med-original-queries.md?metric=Bioin.%20(nDCG%4010)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [MedS. (nDCG@10)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/medical-information-retrieval-on-r2med-original-queries.md?metric=MedS.%20(nDCG%4010)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [MedE. (nDCG@10)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/medical-information-retrieval-on-r2med-original-queries.md?metric=MedE.%20(nDCG%4010)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [MedD. (nDCG@10)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/medical-information-retrieval-on-r2med-original-queries.md?metric=MedD.%20(nDCG%4010)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [PMCT. (nDCG@10)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/medical-information-retrieval-on-r2med-original-queries.md?metric=PMCT.%20(nDCG%4010)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [PMCC. (nDCG@10)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/medical-information-retrieval-on-r2med-original-queries.md?metric=PMCC.%20(nDCG%4010)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [IIYiC. (nDCG@10)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/medical-information-retrieval-on-r2med-original-queries.md?metric=IIYiC.%20(nDCG%4010)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

## Recorded results

| Method | Average (nDCG@10) | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ReasonEmbed-Qwen3-8B | 43.18 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| ReasonEmbed-Llama-3.1-8B | 42.76 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| ReasonEmbed-Qwen3-8B | 42.36 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| ReasonEmbed-Llama-3.1-8B | 41.98 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| ReasonEmbed-Qwen3-4B | 41.16 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| ReasonEmbed-Qwen3-4B | 39.94 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| RaDeR-gte-Qwen2-7B | 35.19 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| Qwen3-Embedding-8B | 34.22 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| gte-Qwen2-7B-instruct | 32.56 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| DIVER-Retriever | 32.23 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| Qwen3-Embedding-4B | 31.75 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| NV-Embed-v2 | 31.43 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| GritLM-7B | 31.12 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| OpenAI-3-Large | 28.57 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| ReasonIR-8B | 27.94 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| Qwen3-8B-ms | 24.15 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| Qwen3-4B-ms | 23.09 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| Llama-3.1-8B-ms | 22.34 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |
| BM25 | 15.13 | Not recorded | 68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0 |

### ReasonEmbed-Qwen3-8B

Average (nDCG@10): 43.18. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce837e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"8B","Training":"Redapter (self-adaptive RI-InfoNCE loss)"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ReasonEmbed-Llama-3.1-8B

Average (nDCG@10): 42.76. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce837f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"8B","Training":"Redapter (self-adaptive RI-InfoNCE loss)"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ReasonEmbed-Qwen3-8B

Average (nDCG@10): 42.36. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce837b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"8B","Training":"InfoNCE loss"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ReasonEmbed-Llama-3.1-8B

Average (nDCG@10): 41.98. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce837c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"8B","Training":"InfoNCE loss"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ReasonEmbed-Qwen3-4B

Average (nDCG@10): 41.16. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce837d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"4B","Training":"Redapter (self-adaptive RI-InfoNCE loss)"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ReasonEmbed-Qwen3-4B

Average (nDCG@10): 39.94. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce837a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"4B","Training":"InfoNCE loss"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### RaDeR-gte-Qwen2-7B

Average (nDCG@10): 35.19. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce8378.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa78de1e209131cea7ae72.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"7B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Qwen3-Embedding-8B

Average (nDCG@10): 34.22. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce8373.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa79601e209131cea7d516.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"8B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### gte-Qwen2-7B-instruct

Average (nDCG@10): 32.56. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce8371.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa703b1e209131cea49c20.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"7B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DIVER-Retriever

Average (nDCG@10): 32.23. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce8379.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7acf1e209131cea853c0.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Qwen3-Embedding-4B

Average (nDCG@10): 31.75. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce8372.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa79601e209131cea7d516.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### NV-Embed-v2

Average (nDCG@10): 31.43. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce8370.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa771b1e209131cea71079.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"7B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GritLM-7B

Average (nDCG@10): 31.12. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce836f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773b1e209131cea71ddd.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"7B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### OpenAI-3-Large

Average (nDCG@10): 28.57. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce836e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"-"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ReasonIR-8B

Average (nDCG@10): 27.94. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce8377.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa78561e209131cea77ca8.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"8B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Qwen3-8B-ms

Average (nDCG@10): 24.15. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce8375.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa788e1e209131cea79116.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"8B","Status":"reproduced"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Qwen3-4B-ms

Average (nDCG@10): 23.09. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce8374.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa788e1e209131cea79116.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"4B","Status":"reproduced"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Llama-3.1-8B-ms

Average (nDCG@10): 22.34. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce8376.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa75d11e209131cea6a028.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-agentic-system>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"8B","Status":"reproduced"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BM25

Average (nDCG@10): 15.13. Result ID: 69e75a8247f34ce924ce836d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c071e209131cea8bfb0.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Size":"-"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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