Cross Encoder Pairwise Reranking With Joint Encoding

via “multilingual-passage-reranking-with-cross-encoder-scoring”

text-classification model by undefined. 78,40,697 downloads.

Unique: Unified XLM-RoBERTa cross-encoder trained on 2.7B query-passage pairs across 100+ languages, enabling joint interaction modeling without language-specific model switching; v2-m3 variant optimized for 3-way classification (relevant/irrelevant/neutral) with improved calibration over v2-m2

vs others: Outperforms language-specific rerankers and dual-encoder rescoring on multilingual benchmarks while maintaining single-model deployment; 3-5x faster than ensemble approaches and more accurate than BM25-only ranking for semantic relevance