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BGE Reranker v2 M3

On the AxForge API eu-se-1 · Stockholm Embeddings FlagOpen Reranker 1 build Open weights

BGE Reranker v2 M3 is an open-weight reranker from BAAI, listed on the AxForge serverless API, in Cohere's rerank shape and hosted in the EU.

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What it is

Released byBAAI
Parameters568M

How it works

How rerankers work

Question + passageswhat to orderRerankerreads each pairScoresbest answer firstA reranker reads the question together with each passage and scores how well it answers it, so the best ones come first.

Using it via the API

Call it on /v1/rerank

BGE Reranker v2 M3 answers on the API today as bge-reranker-v2-m3, in the request and answer shape Cohere and Jina use, with the same base URL and keys as every other model.

# your API key, from API Keys
export AXFORGE_API_KEY="YOUR_KEY"

curl https://api.axforge.ai/v1/rerank \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"bge-reranker-v2-m3","query":"When is the invoice due?","documents":["The office is closed on Mondays.","Payment is due within 30 days of the invoice date.","Invoices are sent by email."],"top_n":2}'
Rerank: the passages that answer a question, first

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