# Text Ranking on BEIR Out-of-Domain (Aggregate)

Source: [Text Ranking on BEIR Out-of-Domain (Aggregate)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate>)

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

Data updated: 2026-07-02T07:18:52.799Z

Evaluation of Text Ranking performance, reporting the average score across the standard set of BEIR out-of-domain datasets (including Arguana, Climate, DBPedia, FEVER, etc.).

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 | Text Ranking |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | BEIR out-of-domain |
| Metric | Average Score (BEIR OOD) |
| Unit | PERCENT |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 27 of 27 |
| 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 Score (BEIR OOD)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=Average%20Score%20(BEIR%20OOD)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Arguana Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=Arguana%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Climate Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=Climate%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [DBPedia Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=DBPedia%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [FEVER Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=FEVER%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [FIQA Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=FIQA%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [HotpotQA Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=HotpotQA%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [NFCorpus Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=NFCorpus%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [NQ Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=NQ%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Quora Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=Quora%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [SCIDOCS Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=SCIDOCS%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [SciFact Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=SciFact%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [COVID Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=COVID%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Touche Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/text-ranking-on-beir-out-of-domain-aggregate.md?metric=Touche%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

## Recorded results

| Method | Average Score (BEIR OOD) | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TSARankLLM | 56.2 | Not recorded | 68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea |
| MonoT5 | 54.6 | Not recorded | 68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea |
| TSARankLLM | 54.5 | Not recorded | 68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea |
| RankT5 | 53.7 | Not recorded | 68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea |
| TSARankLLM | 53.7 | Not recorded | 68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea |
| MonoT5 | 53.1 | Not recorded | 68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea |
| ModernBERT-VT | 52.4 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| SPLADE-v3 | 52 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| Co-SelfDistil | 51.2 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| ESPLADE | 51.2 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| Co-EnsembleDistil | 50.9 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| BERT (Splade) | 50.6 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| MonoBERT | 50.5 | Not recorded | 68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea |
| BERT (Splade) + further MLM | 50.5 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| ColBERTv2 | 50 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| MonoT5 | 49.3 | Not recorded | 68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea |
| BM25 | 48.3 | Not recorded | 68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea |
| ModernBERT (Splade) | 47.7 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| ModernBERT (Splade) + further MLM | 47.5 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| ModernBERT (Splade) + lowercase input | 46.8 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| ModernBERT (dense) | 44.2 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| uniCOIL | 44.1 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| BM25 | 43.7 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| BERT (dense) | 42.1 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| CoCondenser | 42 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| DeepImpact | 41.5 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |
| DPR | 37.5 | Not recorded | 6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e |

### TSARankLLM

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 56.2. Result ID: 6992d8ba3a6c31484911e65e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/Alibaba-NLP/RankingGPT>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"LLM":"BLOOM","Size":"3B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### MonoT5

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 54.6. Result ID: 6992d8ba3a6c31484911e65a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67341e209131cea14b55.md>)

[Implementation](<http://anserini.io/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"LLM":"T5","Size":"3B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### TSARankLLM

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 54.5. Result ID: 6992d8ba3a6c31484911e65d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/Alibaba-NLP/RankingGPT>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"LLM":"BLOOM","Size":"1B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### RankT5

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 53.7. Result ID: 6992d8ba3a6c31484911e65b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6db91e209131cea3b97c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"LLM":"T5","Size":"770M"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### TSARankLLM

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 53.7. Result ID: 6992d8ba3a6c31484911e65c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/Alibaba-NLP/RankingGPT>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"LLM":"BLOOM","Size":"560M"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### MonoT5

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 53.1. Result ID: 6992d8ba3a6c31484911e659.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67341e209131cea14b55.md>)

[Implementation](<http://anserini.io/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"LLM":"T5","Size":"770M"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ModernBERT-VT

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 52.4. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8b7.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Teachers":"1"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SPLADE-v3

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 52. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8b1.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa72751e209131cea567ad.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/naver/splade>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Teachers":"5"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Co-SelfDistil

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 51.2. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8ae.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c8a1e209131cea34932.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Teachers":"1"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ESPLADE

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 51.2. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8b0.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Teachers":"1"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Co-EnsembleDistil

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 50.9. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8af.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c8a1e209131cea34932.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Teachers":"1"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BERT (Splade)

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 50.6. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8b2.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Teachers":"1"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### MonoBERT

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 50.5. Result ID: 6992d8ba3a6c31484911e657.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa669a1e209131cea114a6.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"LLM":"BERT","Size":"340M"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BERT (Splade) + further MLM

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 50.5. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8b3.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Teachers":"1"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ColBERTv2

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 50. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8a9.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6cf41e209131cea36cce.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/stanford-futuredata/ColBERT>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: Not recorded. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### MonoT5

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 49.3. Result ID: 6992d8ba3a6c31484911e658.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67341e209131cea14b55.md>)

[Implementation](<http://anserini.io/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"LLM":"T5","Size":"220M"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BM25

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 48.3. Result ID: 6992d8ba3a6c31484911e656.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73651e209131cea5c2ea.md>)

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

### ModernBERT (Splade)

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 47.7. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8b4.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Teachers":"1"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ModernBERT (Splade) + further MLM

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 47.5. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8b5.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Teachers":"1"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ModernBERT (Splade) + lowercase input

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 46.8. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8b6.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Teachers":"1"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ModernBERT (dense)

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 44.2. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8ad.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: Not recorded. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### uniCOIL

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 44.1. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8aa.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a441e209131cea27226.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: Not recorded. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BM25

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 43.7. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8a6.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: Not recorded. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BERT (dense)

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 42.1. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8ac.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: Not recorded. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### CoCondenser

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 42. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8a8.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6ace1e209131cea2a64e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: Not recorded. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DeepImpact

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 41.5. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8ab.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69d11e209131cea24563.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: Not recorded. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DPR

Average Score (BEIR OOD): 37.5. Result ID: 6a4610bf60b88bb33983e8a7.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a45f05edc71372d77959f8e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa686d1e209131cea1c190.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/facebookresearch/DPR>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: Not recorded. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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