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bge-reranker-large

by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence BAAI/bge-reranker-large

We have updated the new reranker, supporting larger lengths, more languages, and achieving better performance. More details please refer to our Github: FlagEmbedding.

Parameters560M
Context514
Weights4.5 GB
Licensemit
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads2.8M

Runs On

What it takes to serve bge-reranker-large (560M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 1.1 GB 1.3 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.6 GB 0.7 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.3 GB 0.3 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

SAVRN's Notes on bge-reranker-large

Nobody gives a reranker its own accelerator, and at 1.3 GB in 16-bit bge-reranker-large shows why. This 560M-parameter XLM-RoBERTa sequence classifier from BAAI ranks retrieved passages for a retrieval-augmented pipeline, so we put it on the same card as that stack. On the cheapest listing the Index shows, a single MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 an hour on-demand, it occupies under one percent of the memory.

MIT terms apply, so commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed as long as the copyright and permission notices go with the files. The number to check is 514, the context length in tokens; whatever you hand it per call must fit that window, which sets chunk sizes upstream. The publisher's own page says it released newer rerankers with larger inputs and more languages on 3/18/2024; weigh that against this model's 2024-05-11 last update before standardizing.

Model Card

By Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, published under mit, revision 55611d7bca2a.

We have updated the new reranker, supporting larger lengths, more languages, and achieving better performance.

FlagEmbedding

Model List | FAQ | Usage | Evaluation | Train | Citation | License

More details please refer to our Github: FlagEmbedding.

English | 中文

FlagEmbedding focuses on retrieval-augmented LLMs, consisting of the following projects currently:

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Configuration

Architecture
XLMRobertaForSequenceClassification
Context length (tokens)
514
Layers
24
Hidden size
1,024
Feed-forward size
4,096
Attention heads
16
Vocabulary size
250,002
Stored precision
float32
Model type
xlm-roberta

Identity and Version

Repository
BAAI/bge-reranker-large
Publisher
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
Task
Feature extraction
Modality
Text
Library
transformers
Parameters
560M parameters
Languages
en, zh
Revision
55611d7bca2a7133960a6d3b71e083071bbfc312
First published
2023-09-12
Last updated
2024-05-11

Files and Weights

11 files, 6.7 GB in total. The weights are 3 files totalling 4.5 GB in bin, onnx, safetensors.

Weights3 files · 4.5 GB
Configuration2 files · 1.1 KB
Tokenizer2 files · 17.1 MB
Documentation1 file · 34.0 KB
Other2 files · 2.2 GB
Repository1 file · 1.6 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights2.2 GB c5ae4e262c60
onnx/model.onnxWeights618.5 KB 0528834a83cb
pytorch_model.binWeights2.2 GB 62129e841464
config.jsonConfiguration801 B
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration279 B
README.mdDocumentation34.0 KB
onnx/model.onnx_dataOther2.2 GB e88670fb9065
sentencepiece.bpe.modelOther5.1 MB cfc8146abe2a
.gitattributesRepository1.6 KB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer17.1 MB 9eb652ac4e40
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer443 B

License and Download

License
mit
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
4.5 GB
Download from Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

Released by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

Evaluations

Each result is shown as reported, with the conditions its reporter stated. None is a SAVRN measurement. A comparison lines two results up only when their configuration, unit and setup are all stated and identical.

BenchmarkConditionsResultReported byRevisionDate
MTEB CMedQAv1 Configuration defaultTask RerankingMetric mapComparison conditions not established 81.2721 BAAI
Publisher reported
Evaluated revision not stated
MTEB CMedQAv1 Configuration defaultTask RerankingMetric mrrComparison conditions not established 84.1424 BAAI
Publisher reported
Evaluated revision not stated
MTEB CMedQAv2 Configuration defaultTask RerankingMetric mapComparison conditions not established 84.1037 BAAI
Publisher reported
Evaluated revision not stated
MTEB CMedQAv2 Configuration defaultTask RerankingMetric mrrComparison conditions not established 86.7938 BAAI
Publisher reported
Evaluated revision not stated
MTEB MMarcoReranking Configuration defaultTask RerankingMetric mapComparison conditions not established 35.4601 BAAI
Publisher reported
Evaluated revision not stated
MTEB MMarcoReranking Configuration defaultTask RerankingMetric mrrComparison conditions not established 34.6024 BAAI
Publisher reported
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MTEB T2Reranking Configuration defaultTask RerankingMetric mapComparison conditions not established 67.2773 BAAI
Publisher reported
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MTEB T2Reranking Configuration defaultTask RerankingMetric mrrComparison conditions not established 77.1315 BAAI
Publisher reported
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Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published4.5 GB
16-bit1.1 GB
8-bit0.6 GB
4-bit0.3 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

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Questions About bge-reranker-large

How much GPU memory does bge-reranker-large need?

About 1.3 GB at 16-bit and 0.3 GB at 4-bit: the weights (560M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run bge-reranker-large on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use bge-reranker-large commercially?

Yes. bge-reranker-large is released under MIT License. The MIT License is a short permissive license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution, provided the copyright notice and permission notice are included.

What is bge-reranker-large's context length?

514 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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