e5-mistral is essentially a distillation from gpt-4 to a smaller model. You can see here https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/blob/16da2f193b9c1dab0a692c6e4380bd4

e5-mistral is essentially a distillation from gpt-4 to a smaller model. You can see here https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/blob/16da2f193b9c1dab0a692c6e4380bd43e70a40cd/e5/utils.py#L93 https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/blob/16da2f193b9c1dab0a69... they actually have custom prompts for each dataset being tested. Question would be, if you haven't seen the task before, what is a good prompt to prepend for your task? IMO e5-mistral is overfit to MTEB