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  • [August 3 2023] ranx 0.3.16 is out!
    This release adds support for importing Qrels and Runs from parquet files, exporting them as pandas.DataFrame and save them as parquet files. Any dependence on trec_eval have been removed to make ranx truly MIT-compliant.

⚑️ Introduction

ranx ([raΕ‹ks]) is a library of fast ranking evaluation metrics implemented in Python, leveraging Numba for high-speed vector operations and automatic parallelization. It offers a user-friendly interface to evaluate and compare Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems. ranx allows you to perform statistical tests and export LaTeX tables for your scientific publications. Moreover, ranx provides several fusion algorithms and normalization strategies, and an automatic fusion optimization functionality. ranx also have a companion repository of pre-computed runs to facilitated model comparisons called ranxhub. On ranxhub, you can download and share pre-computed runs for Information Retrieval datasets, such as MSMARCO Passage Ranking. ranx was featured in ECIR 2022, CIKM 2022, and SIGIR 2023.

If you use ranx to evaluate results or conducting experiments involving fusion for your scientific publication, please consider citing it: evaluation bibtex, fusion bibtex, ranxhub bibtex.

NB: ranx is not suited for evaluating classifiers. Please, refer to the FAQ for further details.

For a quick overview, follow the Usage section.

For a in-depth overview, follow the Examples section.

✨ Features

Metrics

The metrics have been tested against TREC Eval for correctness.

Statistical Tests

Please, refer to Smucker et al., Carterette, and Fuhr for additional information on statistical tests for Information Retrieval.

Off-the-shelf Qrels

You can load qrels from ir-datasets as simply as:

qrels = Qrels.from_ir_datasets("msmarco-document/dev")
A full list of the available qrels is provided here.

Off-the-shelf Runs

You can load runs from ranxhub as simply as:

run = Run.from_ranxhub("run-id")
A full list of the available runs is provided here.

Fusion Algorithms

Name Name Name Name Name
CombMIN CombMNZ RRF MAPFuse BordaFuse
CombMED CombGMNZ RBC PosFuse Weighted BordaFuse
CombANZ ISR WMNZ ProbFuse Condorcet
CombMAX Log_ISR Mixed SegFuse Weighted Condorcet
CombSUM LogN_ISR BayesFuse SlideFuse Weighted Sum

Please, refer to the documentation for further details.

Normalization Strategies

Please, refer to the documentation for further details.

πŸ”Œ Requirements

python>=3.8
As of v.0.3.5, ranx requires python>=3.8.

πŸ’Ύ Installation

pip install ranx

πŸ’‘ Usage

Create Qrels and Run

from ranx import Qrels, Run

qrels_dict = { "q_1": { "d_12": 5, "d_25": 3 },
               "q_2": { "d_11": 6, "d_22": 1 } }

run_dict = { "q_1": { "d_12": 0.9, "d_23": 0.8, "d_25": 0.7,
                      "d_36": 0.6, "d_32": 0.5, "d_35": 0.4  },
             "q_2": { "d_12": 0.9, "d_11": 0.8, "d_25": 0.7,
                      "d_36": 0.6, "d_22": 0.5, "d_35": 0.4  } }

qrels = Qrels(qrels_dict)
run = Run(run_dict)

Evaluate

from ranx import evaluate

# Compute score for a single metric
evaluate(qrels, run, "ndcg@5")
>>> 0.7861

# Compute scores for multiple metrics at once
evaluate(qrels, run, ["map@5", "mrr"])
>>> {"map@5": 0.6416, "mrr": 0.75}

Compare

from ranx import compare

# Compare different runs and perform Two-sided Paired Student's t-Test
report = compare(
    qrels=qrels,
    runs=[run_1, run_2, run_3, run_4, run_5],
    metrics=["map@100", "mrr@100", "ndcg@10"],
    max_p=0.01  # P-value threshold
)
Output:
print(report)
#    Model    MAP@100    MRR@100    NDCG@10
---  -------  --------   --------   ---------
a    model_1  0.320ᡇ     0.320ᡇ     0.368α΅‡αΆœ
b    model_2  0.233      0.234      0.239
c    model_3  0.308ᡇ     0.309ᡇ     0.330ᡇ
d    model_4  0.366α΅ƒα΅‡αΆœ   0.367α΅ƒα΅‡αΆœ   0.408α΅ƒα΅‡αΆœ
e    model_5  0.405α΅ƒα΅‡αΆœα΅ˆ  0.406α΅ƒα΅‡αΆœα΅ˆ  0.451α΅ƒα΅‡αΆœα΅ˆ

Fusion

from ranx import fuse, optimize_fusion

best_params = optimize_fusion(
    qrels=train_qrels,
    runs=[train_run_1, train_run_2, train_run_3],
    norm="min-max",     # The norm. to apply before fusion
    method="wsum",      # The fusion algorithm to use (Weighted Sum)
    metric="ndcg@100",  # The metric to maximize
)

combined_test_run = fuse(
    runs=[test_run_1, test_run_2, test_run_3],  
    norm="min-max",       
    method="wsum",        
    params=best_params,
)

πŸ“– Examples

Name Link
Overview Open In Colab
Qrels and Run Open In Colab
Evaluation Open In Colab
Comparison and Report Open In Colab
Fusion Open In Colab
Plot Open In Colab
Share your runs with ranxhub Open In Colab

πŸ“š Documentation

Browse the documentation for more details and examples.

πŸŽ“ Citation

If you use ranx to evaluate results for your scientific publication, please consider citing our ECIR 2022 paper:

BibTeX
@inproceedings{ranx,
  author       = {Elias Bassani},
  title        = {ranx: {A} Blazing-Fast Python Library for Ranking Evaluation and Comparison},
  booktitle    = {{ECIR} {(2)}},
  series       = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume       = {13186},
  pages        = {259--264},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  year         = {2022},
  doi          = {10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7\_30}
}

If you use the fusion functionalities provided by ranx for conducting the experiments of your scientific publication, please consider citing our CIKM 2022 paper:

BibTeX
@inproceedings{ranx.fuse,
  author    = {Elias Bassani and
              Luca Romelli},
  title     = {ranx.fuse: {A} Python Library for Metasearch},
  booktitle = {{CIKM}},
  pages     = {4808--4812},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2022},
  doi       = {10.1145/3511808.3557207}
}

If you use pre-computed runs from [ranxhub]((https://amenra.github.io/ranxhub) to make comparison for your scientific publication, please consider citing our SIGIR 2023 paper:

BibTeX
@inproceedings{ranxhub,
  author       = {Elias Bassani},
  title        = {ranxhub: An Online Repository for Information Retrieval Runs},
  booktitle    = {{SIGIR}},
  pages        = {3210--3214},
  publisher    = {{ACM}},
  year         = {2023},
  doi          = {10.1145/3539618.3591823}
}

🎁 Feature Requests

Would you like to see other features implemented? Please, open a feature request.

🀘 Want to contribute?

Would you like to contribute? Please, drop me an e-mail.

πŸ“„ License

ranx is an open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.