 Introduction ptt5-base-msmarco-pt-100k-v1 is a T5-based model pretrained in the BrWac corpus, finetuned on Portuguese translated version of MS MARCO passage dataset. In the version v1, the Portuguese dataset was translated using [Helsinki](https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP) NMT model. This model was finetuned for 100k steps.  Further information about the dataset or the translation method can be found on our [**mMARCO: A Multilingual Version of MS MARCO Passage Ranking Dataset**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13897) and [mMARCO](https://github.com/unicamp-dl/mMARCO) repository.  