multilingual-retrieval-lab-e5s

intfloat/multilingual-e5-small fine-tuned with InfoNCE on GermanDPR (article-disjoint from its test split) and a SQuAD sample, with BM25-mined hard negatives and 50 % machine-translated German queries for English passages (seed 1 of 3). Use the e5 prefixes query: and passage: , mean pooling, cosine similarity.

nDCG@10 (%)	GermanDPR test	XQuAD en->en	XQuAD de->en
multilingual-e5-small	78.0	87.8	76.2
this model (seed 1)	80.5	87.4	78.8

XQuAD is scored against all 2,069 SQuAD v1.1 dev paragraphs. Training data licences: GermanDPR CC BY 4.0, SQuAD CC BY-SA 4.0. Code, all runs and limits: https://github.com/pavanyadava007/multilingual-retrieval-lab (author: Pavan Yadava Annappa).