Ranx

🔥 News

• 📌 [April 4, 2023] ranxhub, the ranx's companion repository, will be featured in SIGIR 2023!
  On ranxhub, you can download and share pre-computed runs for Information Retrieval datasets, such as MSMARCO Passage Ranking.

• [May 1 2023] ranx 0.3.8 is out!
  This release adds early support for results plotting. Specifically, it is now possible to plot Interpolated Precision-Recall Curve. Click here for further details.

⚡️ Introduction

ranx ([raŋks]) 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 was featured in ECIR 2022 and CIKM 2022.

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

For a quick overview, follow the Usage section.

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

✨ Features

Metrics

• Hits
• Hit Rate
• Precision
• Recall
• F1
• r-Precision
• Bpref
• Rank-biased Precision (RBP)
• Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR)
• Mean Average Precision (MAP)
• Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG)

The metrics have been tested against TREC Eval for correctness.

Statistical Tests

• Paired Student's t-Test (default)
• Fisher's Randomization Test
• Tukey's HSD Test

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

Please, refer to the documentation for further details.

Normalization Strategies

• Min-Max Norm
• Max Norm
• Sum Norm
• ZMUV Norm
• Rank Norm
• Borda Norm

Please, refer to the documentation for further details.

🔌 Requirements

python>=3.8

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

💾 Installation

pip install ranx

💡 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, "[email protected]")
>>> 0.7861

# Compute scores for multiple metrics at once
evaluate(qrels, run, ["[email protected]", "mrr"])
>>> {"[email protected]": 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=["[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]"],
    max_p=0.01  # P-value threshold
)

Output:

print(report)

#    Model    [email protected]    [email protected]    [email protected]
---  -------  --------   --------   ---------
a    model_1  0.320ᵇ     0.320ᵇ     0.368ᵇᶜ
b    model_2  0.233      0.234      0.239
c    model_3  0.308ᵇ     0.309ᵇ     0.330ᵇ
d    model_4  0.366ᵃᵇᶜ   0.367ᵃᵇᶜ   0.408ᵃᵇᶜ
e    model_5  0.405ᵃᵇᶜᵈ  0.406ᵃᵇᶜᵈ  0.451ᵃᵇᶜᵈ

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="[email protected]",  # 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,
)

📖 Examples

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

📚 Documentation

Browse the documentation for more details and examples.

🎓 Citation

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

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ecir/Bassani22,
  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}
}

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

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/cikm/BassaniR22,
  author    = {Elias Bassani and
              Luca Romelli},
  title     = {ranx.fuse: {A} Python Library for Metasearch},
  booktitle = {{CIKM}},
  pages     = {4808--4812},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2022}
}

🎁 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.

📄 License

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