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Zerank 2

State-of-the-art cross-encoder trained with novel zELO pipeline for calibrated relevance scores. First reranker with native instruction-following for domain-specific optimization, multilingual parity across 100+ languages, normalized scores with confidence statistics, and robust SQL-style aggregation query handling.

Leaderboard Rank
#1
of 11
ELO Rating
1644
#1
Win Rate
58.3%
#2
Accuracy (nDCG@10)
0.195
#9
Latency
265ms
#2

Model Information

Provider
ZeroEntropy
License
cc-by-nc-4.0
Price per 1M tokens
$0.025
Release Date
2025-11-18
Model Name
zerank-2
Total Evaluations
3000

Performance Record

Wins1748 (58.3%)
Losses1109 (37.0%)
Ties143 (4.8%)
Wins
Losses
Ties

Performance Overview

ELO ratings by dataset

Zerank 2's ELO performance varies across different benchmark datasets, showing its strengths in specific domains.

Zerank 2 - ELO by Dataset

Detailed Metrics

Dataset breakdown

Performance metrics across different benchmark datasets, including accuracy and latency percentiles.

FiQa

ELO 180460.2% WR301W-172L-27T

Accuracy Metrics

nDCG@5
0.108
nDCG@10
0.119
Recall@5
0.098
Recall@10
0.130

Latency Distribution

Mean
251ms
P50 (Median)
254ms
P90
270ms

arguana

ELO 170062.4% WR312W-176L-12T

Accuracy Metrics

nDCG@5
0.283
nDCG@10
0.355
Recall@5
0.540
Recall@10
0.760

Latency Distribution

Mean
280ms
P50 (Median)
278ms
P90
312ms

MSMARCO

ELO 162952.8% WR264W-192L-44T

Accuracy Metrics

nDCG@5
0.491
nDCG@10
0.546
Recall@5
0.620
Recall@10
0.780

Latency Distribution

Mean
233ms
P50 (Median)
228ms
P90
251ms

PG

ELO 160854.4% WR272W-226L-2T

Accuracy Metrics

nDCG@5
0.000
nDCG@10
0.000
Recall@5
0.000
Recall@10
0.000

Latency Distribution

Mean
293ms
P50 (Median)
281ms
P90
328ms

DBPedia

ELO 156665.8% WR329W-128L-43T

Accuracy Metrics

nDCG@5
0.138
nDCG@10
0.151
Recall@5
0.004
Recall@10
0.005

Latency Distribution

Mean
247ms
P50 (Median)
242ms
P90
274ms

business reports

ELO 155654.0% WR270W-215L-15T

Accuracy Metrics

nDCG@5
0.000
nDCG@10
0.000
Recall@5
0.000
Recall@10
0.000

Latency Distribution

Mean
288ms
P50 (Median)
269ms
P90
367ms

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