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BGE-Reranker

A reranking model based on a cross-encoder that performs fine-grained scoring of query-document pairs. Its accuracy exceeds that of vector similarity, and it is used in the reranking stage of two-stage retrieval in RAG systems.

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Oct 13

Reranking uses a cross-encoder to score query-document pairs one by one, with accuracy far higher than vector similarity but at higher computational cost, so fine ranking is done only on the small number of candidates after coarse ranking, forming a two-stage architecture of coarse ranking plus fine ranking.

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Oct 11

Common open-source re-ranking models include Cohere Rerank, BGE-Reranker, and the ms-marco series.

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Sep 12

Common open-source reranking options include BGE-Reranker, the Cohere Rerank API, and others.

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Sep 11

Commonly used open-source reranking models include the BGE-Reranker series and models released by BAAI.

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Aug 27

Reranking is typically implemented using cross-encoders, which concatenate the query and candidate documents before feeding them in together; it usually reranks only the Top-50 to Top-100 candidates and finally selects Top-3 to Top-5 to pass to the generative model.

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