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Hall of Cone

Baseline embedders ranked by effective rank on a fixed evaluation panel.

Hall of Cone
Lowest effective rank wins. Reference panel for baseline embedders.
#ModeleranknDCG@10Collapse score
Plain InfoNCE
control
3.80.39
Dumbness Score96 · Maximum cone
2
text-embedding-3-small
commercial
11.20.48
Dumbness Score71 · Pretty dumb
3
e5-large-v2
Microsoft
14.60.51
Dumbness Score62 · SOTA-ish
4
BGE-M3
BAAI
18.40.54
Dumbness Score54 · SOTA-ish
5
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B
Alibaba
22.10.56
Dumbness Score44 · Trying
6
Blue Hen RE · ASN org
Blue Hen RE
49.60.61
Dumbness Score11 · Suspiciously smart

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