Perplexity Releases Q2D-Web: A Benchmark with 190M Documents and 70k Agent-Reformulated Queries

antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-09-10

Perplexity introduces Q2D-Web (Query2Doc-Web), a benchmark and public leaderboard for evaluating retrieval in agentic RAG systems. Unlike common setups that focus on nDCG@10, it targets Recall@1000, measuring how embedding models perform on large-scale web search.

The benchmark scales up the earlier Q2D benchmark (released alongside pplx-embed-v1) by 7x, featuring 70k agent-reformulated queries and a 190M-document web corpus. The team hopes it becomes the modern "MS MARCO".

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