Lighting the Way for BRIGHT: Reproducible Baselines with Anserini, Pyserini, and RankLLM
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| author | Sharifymoghaddam, Sahel Ge, Yijun Lin, Jimmy |
| author_facet | Sharifymoghaddam, Sahel Ge, Yijun Lin, Jimmy |
| contents | Retrieval benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) should reflect the long, reasoning-intensive queries typical of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). We present a systematic study of BRIGHT, a reasoning-focused retrieval benchmark, along with strong, reproducible reference methods integrated into Anserini, Pyserini, and RankLLM. We evaluate lexical, sparse, dense, and fusion-based retrievers, as well as LLM rerankers, under long-query settings. In reproducing BRIGHT's lexical baseline, we identify a key under-documented detail: query-side BM25 (BM25Q), which applies BM25 weighting to the query itself. On long, multi-sentence queries, BM25Q consistently outperforms standard BM25, making it the strongest lexical baseline for reasoning-oriented retrieval. We further audit the BRIGHT corpus, uncovering data quality issues that impact evaluation, and offer mitigation. Finally, we study the generalizability of BM25Q across five additional benchmarks, finding its gains largely specific to BRIGHT, while fusion with standard BM25 provides the most consistent improvements across datasets. |
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| spellingShingle | Lighting the Way for BRIGHT: Reproducible Baselines with Anserini, Pyserini, and RankLLM Sharifymoghaddam, Sahel Ge, Yijun Lin, Jimmy Information Retrieval Retrieval benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) should reflect the long, reasoning-intensive queries typical of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). We present a systematic study of BRIGHT, a reasoning-focused retrieval benchmark, along with strong, reproducible reference methods integrated into Anserini, Pyserini, and RankLLM. We evaluate lexical, sparse, dense, and fusion-based retrievers, as well as LLM rerankers, under long-query settings. In reproducing BRIGHT's lexical baseline, we identify a key under-documented detail: query-side BM25 (BM25Q), which applies BM25 weighting to the query itself. On long, multi-sentence queries, BM25Q consistently outperforms standard BM25, making it the strongest lexical baseline for reasoning-oriented retrieval. We further audit the BRIGHT corpus, uncovering data quality issues that impact evaluation, and offer mitigation. Finally, we study the generalizability of BM25Q across five additional benchmarks, finding its gains largely specific to BRIGHT, while fusion with standard BM25 provides the most consistent improvements across datasets. |
| title | Lighting the Way for BRIGHT: Reproducible Baselines with Anserini, Pyserini, and RankLLM |
| topic | Information Retrieval |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02558 |