23.3 30.4 30.6 30.1 30.2 31.4 31.2 31.7 31.1 31.6 31.6 30.8 31.1 29.9 31.3 30.1 48.7 56.0 59.0 59.5 62.3 66.6 62.4 63.1 63.6 64.2 60.4 61.0 62.3 64.6 61.4 62.4 and BigPatent 8 (Sharma et al., 2019). Results are presented in Table 4. Similar to (Gunther et al., 2024), we report the V-scores and NDCG10 for the clustering and retrieval datasets respectively. Across sequence lengths and tasks, nomic-embedtext-v1 beats or ties jina-embeddings-v2-base on all datasets at 8k context length. Additionally, nomic-embed-text-v1 beats text-embedding-ada002 on two of the four datasets. We also report similar results to (Gunther et al., 2024) on WikiCitiesClustering that sequence length hurts performance, suggesting that longer sequence lengths are not necessary to perform well on the test.

TV episode transcripts, and scientific research papers. We include the QASPER Abstract Articles dataset for completeness, but would like to highlight that many models seem to oversaturate the benchmark and approach 1.0 NDCG10. Results are presented in Table 6. nomic-embed-textv1 beats jina-embeddings-v2-base-en across sequence lengths. nomic-embed-text-v1 beats M2Bert at 2048 and is competitive at 8192. At sequence length 4096, nomic-embed-text-v1 is competitive with E5 Mistral while being significantly smaller. 5.4 Few-Shot Evaluation of BEIR 5.3.2 LoCo Benchmark The LoCo Benchmark consists of 5 retrieval datasets, 3 from (Shaham et al., 2022) and 2 from (Dasigi et al., 2021). The benchmark tests retrieval across meeting transcripts, national policy reports, 8

, 2023), GTE (Li et al., 2023), and E5-Mistral (Wang et al., 2023b) report training on train splits of BEIR benchmark datasets such as FEVER and HotpotQA. To understand the impact of this on our Model Seq NarrativeQA WikiCities SciFact BigPatent Avg nomic-embed-text-v1 128 nomic-embed-text-v1-ablated 128 jina-embeddings-base-v2 128 text-embedding-ada-002 128 text-embedding-3-small 128 text-embedding-3-large 128 20.1 20.8 19.6 25.4 29.5 45.6 90.0 86.8 79.9 84.9 87.5 87.9 65.4 65.2 62.1 68.8 68.8 74.8 18.5 17.5 14.4 16.6 15.0 16.5

9 25.7 21.3 25.5 32.2 48.1 88.7 81.9 79.3 84.8 89.0 89.9 70.5 71.5 66.7 72.6 73.2 77.6 25.3 23.7 21.9 23.0 23.6 23.6