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New benchmarks evaluate Portuguese text embedding models, revealing performance gaps

Two new benchmarks, MTEB-PT and MTEB-PT (Brazilian Portuguese), have been released to evaluate text embedding models specifically for the Portuguese language. These benchmarks address the underrepresentation of Portuguese in existing evaluations, which often rely on translated datasets or multilingual averages. The new benchmarks comprise numerous native Portuguese tasks across various categories, including semantic textual similarity, classification, retrieval, and reranking. Initial evaluations show that model performance is highly task-dependent, and rankings on multilingual benchmarks do not reliably predict Portuguese-specific performance, highlighting the need for language-native evaluations. AI

IMPACT These benchmarks will enable more accurate evaluation of language models for Portuguese, leading to better model selection and development for this language.

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COVERAGE [4]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Lucas Hideki Takeuchi Okamura, Alexandre Alcoforado, Anna Helena Reali Costa ·

    Beyond Multilingual Averages: MTEB-PT, a Benchmark for Portuguese Sentence Encoders

    arXiv:2607.04071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Portuguese remains underrepresented in text embedding evaluation, despite being one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. As a result, embedding models are often selected based on English or multilingual metrics, while…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Tardelli Ronan Coelho Stekel ·

    MTEB-PT: A Text Embedding Benchmark for Brazilian Portuguese

    arXiv:2607.04581v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text embeddings for Portuguese have no dedicated benchmark: evaluation rests on translated corpora such as English MS MARCO or on thin multilingual coverage, with native tasks scattered and unconsolidated. We introduce MTEB-PT, a be…

  3. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Tardelli Ronan Coelho Stekel ·

    MTEB-PT: A Text Embedding Benchmark for Brazilian Portuguese

    Text embeddings for Portuguese have no dedicated benchmark: evaluation rests on translated corpora such as English MS MARCO or on thin multilingual coverage, with native tasks scattered and unconsolidated. We introduce MTEB-PT, a benchmark of 22 native Brazilian-Portuguese tasks …

  4. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Tardelli Ronan Coelho Stekel ·

    MTEB-BR: A Text Embedding Benchmark for Brazilian Portuguese

    Text embeddings for Portuguese have no dedicated benchmark: evaluation rests on translated corpora such as English MS MARCO or on thin multilingual coverage, with native tasks scattered and unconsolidated. We introduce MTEB-BR, a benchmark of 22 native Brazilian-Portuguese tasks …