Add DenseOn and LateOn results
Add DenseOn and LateOn HAKARI-Bench results
Summary
This PR adds complete standard-scope results for LightOn's paired English
retrieval models:
| Model | Method | Revision | Files | Grouped Overall nDCG@10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
lightonai/DenseOn |
dense | cb9947ebccb33862d24e3c7ca2edb25e51acd887 |
563 | 0.4232 |
lightonai/LateOn |
late interaction / exact MaxSim | c01907b70557ee5c7753680d4819a5cce1674b83 |
563 | 0.4451 |
Both submissions contain all 563 standard evaluation tasks. The Overall values
above use 381 grouped score units derived from the 550 non-overlapping Overall
task results.
NanoBEIR-en validation gate
The official Hugging Face model cards and checkpoint configs were reviewed
before evaluation. Both models were first evaluated on NanoBEIR-en and only
advanced to --all after the scores were consistent with the official 13-task
BEIR profiles.
| Model | NanoBEIR-en mean nDCG@10 | Pearson vs. official BEIR tasks | Spearman vs. official BEIR tasks |
|---|---|---|---|
lightonai/DenseOn |
0.677988 | 0.914556 | 0.901099 |
lightonai/LateOn |
0.686811 | 0.911242 | 0.857143 |
The official model-card BEIR averages are 56.20 for DenseOn and 57.22 for
LateOn. Nano sampling changes the absolute aggregate, so the per-task
correlations were used as the primary reproduction check.
Runtime and official settings
DenseOn uses the checkpoint's SentenceTransformers configuration: CLS pooling,
768 dimensions, cosine similarity, a 512-token maximum, and the registeredquery / document prompts (query: and document: ). The dense submission
contains base, int8, binary, int8_rescore, and binary_rescore for every
task.
LateOn uses PyLate exact MaxSim with 128-dimensional token embeddings, query
length 32, document length 300 (checkpoint model maximum 299), [Q] / [D]
prefixes, and query expansion disabled. It contains one exact-MaxSim base result
per task.
Both checkpoints were pinned by SHA and evaluated in fp32 with explicit SDPA.
No task failed and no batch-size or sequence-length adjustment was made.
Environment: Python 3.12.12, PyTorch 2.9.0, Transformers 5.12.1,
SentenceTransformers 5.4.1, Datasets 4.8.4, CUDA 12.8, and two NVIDIA GeForce
RTX 5090 GPUs (one independent worker per model).
Commands
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT=tmp/.venv_eval_denseon \
uv run hakari-bench evaluate from-model-card \
--model-card config/model_cards/lightonai__DenseOn.yaml \
--all --batch-size 64 --device cuda:0
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1 UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT=tmp/.venv_eval_lateon \
uv run --group pylate hakari-bench evaluate from-model-card \
--model-card config/model_cards/lightonai__LateOn.yaml \
--all --batch-size 32 --device cuda:0
Coverage and plausibility audit
- 1,126/1,126 expected
.json.xzfiles are present and readable. - Each model has 563 unique task keys, with no missing, extra, or duplicate task.
- All scores are finite and within
[0, 1]; all resolved dataset revisions are
present and internally consistent. - DenseOn has all five planned variants on every task; LateOn has the planned
exact-MaxSim base result on every task. - In the merged leaderboard database, both models have 550/550 Overall tasks.
Base retrieval means are 0.417095 for DenseOn and 0.446855 for LateOn. - Relative placement is plausible: DenseOn ranks above
BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5;
LateOn falls between LightOn's ColBERT-Zero/GTE-ModernColBERT models and the
smaller AnswerAI ColBERT baseline on Overall.
Checklist
- Results are under
hakari-results/lightonai__DenseOn/andhakari-results/lightonai__LateOn/. - Only compressed result JSON is included; no caches, DuckDB, HTML, or
scratch artifacts are submitted. - Result JSON records model/dataset revisions, runtime configuration, and
package/CUDA versions. - Official prompts, sequence lengths, attention choice, dtype, variants,
and late-interaction settings are documented above.