IFIR: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Instruction-Following in Expert-Domain Information Retrieval

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04644v1
• Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:32:22 GMT
• Title: IFIR: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Instruction-Following in Expert-Domain Information Retrieval
• Authors: Tingyu Song, Guo Gan, Mingsheng Shang, Yilun Zhao,
• Abstract summary: We introduce IFIR, the first comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate instruction-following information retrieval in expert domains.<n>IFIR includes 2,426 high-quality examples and covers eight subsets across four specialized domains: finance, law, healthcare, and science literature.
• Score: 11.978909077813556
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce IFIR, the first comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate instruction-following information retrieval (IR) in expert domains. IFIR includes 2,426 high-quality examples and covers eight subsets across four specialized domains: finance, law, healthcare, and science literature. Each subset addresses one or more domain-specific retrieval tasks, replicating real-world scenarios where customized instructions are critical. IFIR enables a detailed analysis of instruction-following retrieval capabilities by incorporating instructions at different levels of complexity. We also propose a novel LLM-based evaluation method to provide a more precise and reliable assessment of model performance in following instructions. Through extensive experiments on 15 frontier retrieval models, including those based on LLMs, our results reveal that current models face significant challenges in effectively following complex, domain-specific instructions. We further provide in-depth analyses to highlight these limitations, offering valuable insights to guide future advancements in retriever development.

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