diff --git a/mteb/evaluation/evaluators/RetrievalEvaluator.py b/mteb/evaluation/evaluators/RetrievalEvaluator.py
index be2f5af1f0..9e088aacdf 100644
--- a/mteb/evaluation/evaluators/RetrievalEvaluator.py
+++ b/mteb/evaluation/evaluators/RetrievalEvaluator.py
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ def __call__(
                 self.top_k,
                 task_name=self.task_name,  # type: ignore
                 instructions=instructions,
+                score_function="bm25",
                 **kwargs,
             )
         else:
diff --git a/mteb/evaluation/evaluators/model_classes.py b/mteb/evaluation/evaluators/model_classes.py
index b05de30d7f..b2d2c54be8 100644
--- a/mteb/evaluation/evaluators/model_classes.py
+++ b/mteb/evaluation/evaluators/model_classes.py
@@ -332,9 +332,19 @@ def _full_corpus_search(
             query_embeddings = torch.as_tensor(query_embeddings).to(device)
             sub_corpus_embeddings = torch.as_tensor(sub_corpus_embeddings).to(device)
 
-            score_function = (
-                self.model.similarity if hasattr(self.model, "similarity") else cos_sim
-            )
+            if hasattr(self.model.model, "mteb_model_meta") or hasattr(
+                self.model, "similarity"
+            ):
+                score_function = (
+                    self.model.similarity
+                    if hasattr(self.model, "similarity")
+                    else self.model.model.mteb_model_meta.get_similarity_function()
+                )
+            else:
+                logger.warning(
+                    "The model does not provide `mteb_model_meta`; defaulting to the cosine similarity function."
+                )
+                score_function = cos_sim
 
             with torch.inference_mode():
                 scores = score_function(query_embeddings, sub_corpus_embeddings)
diff --git a/mteb/evaluation/evaluators/utils.py b/mteb/evaluation/evaluators/utils.py
index e01e0ec463..14ca673ce9 100644
--- a/mteb/evaluation/evaluators/utils.py
+++ b/mteb/evaluation/evaluators/utils.py
@@ -70,6 +70,34 @@ def _cos_sim_core(a_tensor, b_tensor):
         return _cos_sim_core(a, b)
 
 
+def max_sim(a: np.ndarray, b: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Computes the max-similarity max_sim(a[i], b[j]) for all i and j.
+        Works with a Tensor of the shape (batch_size, num_tokens, token_dim)
+
+    Return:
+        Matrix with res[i][j]  = max_sim(a[i], b[j])
+    """  # noqa: D402
+    if not isinstance(a, torch.Tensor):
+        a = torch.tensor(a, dtype=torch.float32)
+
+    if not isinstance(b, torch.Tensor):
+        b = torch.tensor(b, dtype=torch.float32)
+
+    if len(a.shape) == 2:
+        a = a.unsqueeze(0)
+
+    if len(b.shape) == 2:
+        b = b.unsqueeze(0)
+
+    scores = torch.einsum(
+        "ash,bth->abst",
+        a,
+        b,
+    )
+
+    return scores.max(axis=-1).values.sum(axis=-1)
+
+
 def dot_score(a: torch.Tensor, b: torch.Tensor):
     """Computes the dot-product dot_prod(a[i], b[j]) for all i and j.
     :return: Matrix with res[i][j]  = dot_prod(a[i], b[j])
diff --git a/mteb/model_meta.py b/mteb/model_meta.py
index 1754ab4bbb..bb063e7ba3 100644
--- a/mteb/model_meta.py
+++ b/mteb/model_meta.py
@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@
 from functools import partial
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, Literal
 
+import numpy as np
 from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict
 
 from mteb.abstasks.AbsTask import AbsTask
 from mteb.abstasks.TaskMetadata import STR_DATE, STR_URL
 from mteb.encoder_interface import Encoder
+from mteb.evaluation.evaluators.utils import cos_sim, dot_score, max_sim
 
 from .languages import ISO_LANGUAGE_SCRIPT
 
@@ -30,7 +32,6 @@
     "PyLate",
     "ColBERT",
 ]
-DISTANCE_METRICS = Literal["cosine", "max_sim", "dot"]
 
 
 def sentence_transformers_loader(
@@ -51,6 +52,9 @@ def get_loader_name(
     return loader.__name__
 
 
+DISTANCE_METRICS = Literal["cosine", "MaxSim", "dot"]
+
+
 class ModelMeta(BaseModel):
     """The model metadata object.
 
@@ -106,6 +110,16 @@ class ModelMeta(BaseModel):
     superseded_by: str | None = None
     citation: str | None = None
 
+    def get_similarity_function(self) -> Callable[[np.ndarray, np.ndarray], np.ndarray]:
+        if self.similarity_fn_name == "cosine":
+            return cos_sim
+        elif self.similarity_fn_name == "dot":
+            return dot_score
+        elif self.similarity_fn_name == "MaxSim":
+            return max_sim
+        elif self.similarity_fn_name is None:
+            raise ValueError("Similarity function not specified.")
+
     def to_dict(self):
         dict_repr = self.model_dump()
         loader = dict_repr.pop("loader", None)
diff --git a/mteb/models/colbert_models.py b/mteb/models/colbert_models.py
index 8753791bff..6ce7ca6fb9 100644
--- a/mteb/models/colbert_models.py
+++ b/mteb/models/colbert_models.py
@@ -100,10 +100,13 @@ def encode(
             )
         logger.info(f"Encoding {len(sentences)} sentences.")
 
+        if "request_qid" in kwargs:
+            kwargs.pop("request_qid")
         pred = self.model.encode(
             sentences,
             prompt_name=prompt_name,
             is_query=True if prompt_type == PromptType.query else False,
+            convert_to_tensor=True,
             **kwargs,
         )
 
@@ -158,7 +161,7 @@ def similarity(self, a: np.ndarray, b: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
     max_tokens=180,  # Reduced for Benchmarking - see ColBERT paper
     embed_dim=None,  # Bag of Embeddings (128) for each token
     license="mit",
-    similarity_fn_name="max_sim",
+    similarity_fn_name="MaxSim",
     framework=["PyLate", "ColBERT"],
     reference="https://huggingface.co/colbert-ir/colbertv2.0",
     use_instructions=False,
@@ -209,7 +212,7 @@ def similarity(self, a: np.ndarray, b: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
     max_tokens=8192,
     embed_dim=None,  # Bag of Embeddings (128) for each token
     license="cc-by-nc-4.0",
-    similarity_fn_name="max_sim",
+    similarity_fn_name="MaxSim",
     framework=["PyLate", "ColBERT"],
     reference="https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-colbert-v2",
     use_instructions=False,
diff --git a/mteb/models/overview.py b/mteb/models/overview.py
index 4e19bed19c..e9774cacd9 100644
--- a/mteb/models/overview.py
+++ b/mteb/models/overview.py
@@ -157,9 +157,12 @@ def get_model(model_name: str, revision: str | None = None, **kwargs: Any) -> En
     model = meta.load_model(**kwargs)
 
     # If revision not available in the modelmeta, try to extract it from sentence-transformers
-    if meta.revision is None and isinstance(model, SentenceTransformer):
-        _meta = model_meta_from_sentence_transformers(model)
-        meta.revision = _meta.revision if _meta.revision else meta.revision
+    if isinstance(model.model, SentenceTransformer):
+        _meta = model_meta_from_sentence_transformers(model.model)
+        if meta.revision is None:
+            meta.revision = _meta.revision if _meta.revision else meta.revision
+        if not meta.similarity_fn_name:
+            meta.similarity_fn_name = _meta.similarity_fn_name
 
     model.mteb_model_meta = meta  # type: ignore
     return model
diff --git a/mteb/models/sentence_transformer_wrapper.py b/mteb/models/sentence_transformer_wrapper.py
index 9ec25a9896..bb47467838 100644
--- a/mteb/models/sentence_transformer_wrapper.py
+++ b/mteb/models/sentence_transformer_wrapper.py
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ def __init__(
         model: str | SentenceTransformer | CrossEncoder,
         revision: str | None = None,
         model_prompts: dict[str, str] | None = None,
-        similarity_fn_name: str | None = None,
         **kwargs,
     ) -> None:
         """Wrapper for SentenceTransformer models.
@@ -33,7 +32,6 @@ def __init__(
                 First priority is given to the composed prompt of task name + prompt type (query or passage), then to the specific task prompt,
                 then to the composed prompt of task type + prompt type, then to the specific task type prompt,
                 and finally to the specific prompt type.
-            similarity_fn_name: A similarity function to use.
             **kwargs: Additional arguments to pass to the SentenceTransformer model.
         """
         if isinstance(model, str):
@@ -61,9 +59,7 @@ def __init__(
         if isinstance(self.model, CrossEncoder):
             self.predict = self.handle_instructions_predict
 
-        if similarity_fn_name:
-            self.similarity = self.get_similarity_function(similarity_fn_name)
-        elif hasattr(self.model, "similarity") and callable(self.model.similarity):
+        if hasattr(self.model, "similarity") and callable(self.model.similarity):
             self.similarity = self.model.similarity
 
     def encode(
diff --git a/mteb/models/wrapper.py b/mteb/models/wrapper.py
index 76b31ba529..956071d3dc 100644
--- a/mteb/models/wrapper.py
+++ b/mteb/models/wrapper.py
@@ -3,12 +3,9 @@
 import logging
 from typing import Callable, get_args
 
-import numpy as np
-
 import mteb
 from mteb.abstasks.TaskMetadata import TASK_TYPE
 from mteb.encoder_interface import PromptType
-from mteb.evaluation.evaluators.utils import cos_sim, dot_score
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -67,18 +64,6 @@ def get_prompt_name(
         )
         return None
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def get_similarity_function(
-        similarity_fn_name: str,
-    ) -> Callable[[np.ndarray, np.ndarray], np.ndarray]:
-        if similarity_fn_name == "cosine":
-            return cos_sim
-        if similarity_fn_name == "dot":
-            return dot_score
-        raise ValueError(
-            "Invalid similarity function. Should be one of ['cosine', 'dot']"
-        )
-
     @staticmethod
     def validate_task_to_prompt_name(
         task_to_prompt_name: dict[str, str] | None,
diff --git a/tests/test_benchmark/test_models.py b/tests/test_benchmark/test_models.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ee5bed091b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_benchmark/test_models.py
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pytest
+
+import mteb
+from mteb import MTEB
+from mteb.abstasks import AbsTask
+
+from .mock_tasks import MockRetrievalTask
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model", ["colbert-ir/colbertv2.0"])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("task", [MockRetrievalTask()])
+def test_colbert_model_e2e(task: AbsTask, model: str):
+    pytest.importorskip("pylate", reason="pylate not installed")
+    eval_splits = ["test"]
+    model = mteb.get_model(model)
+    evaluation = MTEB(tasks=[task])
+
+    results = evaluation.run(
+        model,
+        eval_splits=eval_splits,
+        corpus_chunk_size=500,
+    )
+    result = results[0]
+
+    assert result.scores["test"][0]["ndcg_at_1"] == 1.0
+
+
+def test_bm25s_e2e():
+    # fails for dataset smaller then 1000
+    pytest.importorskip("bm25s", reason="bm25s not installed")
+    pytest.importorskip("Stemmer", reason="PyStemmer not installed")
+
+    model = mteb.get_model("bm25s")
+    tasks = mteb.get_tasks(tasks=["NFCorpus"])
+    eval_splits = ["test"]
+
+    evaluation = MTEB(tasks=tasks)
+
+    results = evaluation.run(model, eval_splits=eval_splits)
+    result = results[0]
+
+    assert result.scores["test"][0]["ndcg_at_1"] == 0.42879