# Visual Document Retrieval on ViDoRe Biomed 2 (val)

Source: [Visual Document Retrieval on ViDoRe Biomed 2 (val)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/visual-document-retrieval-on-vidore-biomed-2-val>)

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

Data updated: 2026-04-08T07:49:47.722Z

Evaluation of Visual Document Retrieval performance on the validation split of the ViDoRe Biomed 2 dataset, using ranking metrics like nDCG@5.

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 | Visual Document Retrieval |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | ViDoRe Biomed 2 (val) |
| Metric | nDCG@5 |
| Unit | SCALAR |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 18 of 18 |
| 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

- [nDCG@5](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/visual-document-retrieval-on-vidore-biomed-2-val.md?metric=nDCG%405>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [nDCG@5 Delta](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/visual-document-retrieval-on-vidore-biomed-2-val.md?metric=nDCG%405%20Delta>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

## Recorded results

| Method | nDCG@5 | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joint Adaptation | 61.2 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Policy Optimization | 60 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Joint Adaptation | 59.6 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Retriever fine-tuning | 59.3 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Retriever fine-tuning | 58.9 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Policy Optimization | 58.9 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Zero-shot Transformation | 58.8 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Policy Optimization | 58.5 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Policy Optimization | 58.5 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Zero-shot Transformation | 57.8 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Zero-shot Transformation | 57 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Policy Optimization | 55.5 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Joint Adaptation | 55.2 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Zero-shot Transformation | 54.4 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Zero-shot Transformation | 53.8 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Retriever fine-tuning | 53 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Policy Optimization | 17.2 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |
| Zero-shot Transformation | 16.7 | Not recorded | 69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c |

### Joint Adaptation

nDCG@5: 61.2. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be5608.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"Jina-Colbert-V2"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Policy Optimization

nDCG@5: 60. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be55fc.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"OpenAI text-emb-large"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Joint Adaptation

nDCG@5: 59.6. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be5604.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"Qwen3-Emb-4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Retriever fine-tuning

nDCG@5: 59.3. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be5607.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"Jina-Colbert-V2"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Retriever fine-tuning

nDCG@5: 58.9. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be5603.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"Qwen3-Emb-4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Policy Optimization

nDCG@5: 58.9. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be5606.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"Jina-Colbert-V2"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Zero-shot Transformation

nDCG@5: 58.8. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be5601.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"Qwen3-Emb-4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Policy Optimization

nDCG@5: 58.5. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be55fe.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"Qwen3-Emb-0.6B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Policy Optimization

nDCG@5: 58.5. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be5602.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"Qwen3-Emb-4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Zero-shot Transformation

nDCG@5: 57.8. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be5605.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"Jina-Colbert-V2"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Zero-shot Transformation

nDCG@5: 57. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be55fb.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"OpenAI text-emb-large"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Policy Optimization

nDCG@5: 55.5. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be55fa.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"OpenAI text-emb-small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Joint Adaptation

nDCG@5: 55.2. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be5600.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"Qwen3-Emb-0.6B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Zero-shot Transformation

nDCG@5: 54.4. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be55fd.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"Qwen3-Emb-0.6B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Zero-shot Transformation

nDCG@5: 53.8. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be55f9.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"OpenAI text-emb-small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Retriever fine-tuning

nDCG@5: 53. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be55ff.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"Qwen3-Emb-0.6B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Policy Optimization

nDCG@5: 17.2. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be55f8.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"BM25"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Zero-shot Transformation

nDCG@5: 16.7. Result ID: 69d6089247f34ce924be55f7.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69d5e1237d0172140ec75b3c.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Retriever":"BM25"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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