Reranker

More details please refer to our Github: FlagEmbedding.

• Model List
• Usage
• Fine-tuning
• Evaluation
• Citation

Different from embedding model, reranker uses question and document as input and directly output similarity instead of embedding. You can get a relevance score by inputting query and passage to the reranker. And the score can be mapped to a float value in [0,1] by sigmoid function.

Model List

You can select the model according your senario and resource.

• For multilingual, utilize BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 and BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma

• For Chinese or English, utilize BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 and BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-minicpm-layerwise.

• For efficiency, utilize BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 and the low layer of BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-minicpm-layerwise.

• For better performance, recommand BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-minicpm-layerwise and BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma

Usage

Using FlagEmbedding

pip install -U FlagEmbedding

For normal reranker (bge-reranker-base / bge-reranker-large / bge-reranker-v2-m3 )

Get relevance scores (higher scores indicate more relevance):

from FlagEmbedding import FlagReranker
reranker = FlagReranker('BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3', use_fp16=True) # Setting use_fp16 to True speeds up computation with a slight performance degradation
score = reranker.compute_score(['query', 'passage'])
print(score) # -5.65234375
# You can map the scores into 0-1 by set "normalize=True", which will apply sigmoid function to the score
score = reranker.compute_score(['query', 'passage'], normalize=True)
print(score) # 0.003497010252573502
scores = reranker.compute_score([['what is panda?', 'hi'], ['what is panda?', 'The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), sometimes called a panda bear or simply panda, is a bear species endemic to China.']])
print(scores) # [-8.1875, 5.26171875]
# You can map the scores into 0-1 by set "normalize=True", which will apply sigmoid function to the score
scores = reranker.compute_score([['what is panda?', 'hi'], ['what is panda?', 'The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), sometimes called a panda bear or simply panda, is a bear species endemic to China.']], normalize=True)
print(scores) # [0.00027803096387751553, 0.9948403768236574]

For LLM-based reranker

from FlagEmbedding import FlagLLMReranker
reranker = FlagLLMReranker('BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma', use_fp16=True) # Setting use_fp16 to True speeds up computation with a slight performance degradation
# reranker = FlagLLMReranker('BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma', use_bf16=True) # You can also set use_bf16=True to speed up computation with a slight performance degradation
score = reranker.compute_score(['query', 'passage'])
print(score)
scores = reranker.compute_score([['what is panda?', 'hi'], ['what is panda?', 'The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), sometimes called a panda bear or simply panda, is a bear species endemic to China.']])
print(scores)

For LLM-based layerwise reranker

from FlagEmbedding import LayerWiseFlagLLMReranker
reranker = LayerWiseFlagLLMReranker('BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-minicpm-layerwise', use_fp16=True) # Setting use_fp16 to True speeds up computation with a slight performance degradation
# reranker = LayerWiseFlagLLMReranker('BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-minicpm-layerwise', use_bf16=True) # You can also set use_bf16=True to speed up computation with a slight performance degradation
score = reranker.compute_score(['query', 'passage'], cutoff_layers=[28]) # Adjusting 'cutoff_layers' to pick which layers are used for computing the score.
print(score)
scores = reranker.compute_score([['what is panda?', 'hi'], ['what is panda?', 'The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), sometimes called a panda bear or simply panda, is a bear species endemic to China.']], cutoff_layers=[28])
print(scores)

Using Huggingface transformers

For normal reranker (bge-reranker-base / bge-reranker-large / bge-reranker-v2-m3 )

Get relevance scores (higher scores indicate more relevance):

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3')
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained('BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3')
model.eval()
pairs = [['what is panda?', 'hi'], ['what is panda?', 'The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), sometimes called a panda bear or simply panda, is a bear species endemic to China.']]
with torch.no_grad():
    inputs = tokenizer(pairs, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt', max_length=512)
    scores = model(**inputs, return_dict=True).logits.view(-1, ).float()
    print(scores)

For LLM-based reranker

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
def get_inputs(pairs, tokenizer, prompt=None, max_length=1024):
    if prompt is None:
        prompt = "Given a query A and a passage B, determine whether the passage contains an answer to the query by providing a prediction of either 'Yes' or 'No'."
    sep = "\n"
    prompt_inputs = tokenizer(prompt,
                              return_tensors=None,
                              add_special_tokens=False)['input_ids']
    sep_inputs = tokenizer(sep,
                           return_tensors=None,
                           add_special_tokens=False)['input_ids']
    inputs = []
    for query, passage in pairs:
        query_inputs = tokenizer(f'A: {query}',
                                 return_tensors=None,
                                 add_special_tokens=False,
                                 max_length=max_length * 3 // 4,
                                 truncation=True)
        passage_inputs = tokenizer(f'B: {passage}',
                                   return_tensors=None,
                                   add_special_tokens=False,
                                   max_length=max_length,
                                   truncation=True)
        item = tokenizer.prepare_for_model(
            [tokenizer.bos_token_id] + query_inputs['input_ids'],
            sep_inputs + passage_inputs['input_ids'],
            truncation='only_second',
            max_length=max_length,
            padding=False,
            return_attention_mask=False,
            return_token_type_ids=False,
            add_special_tokens=False
        )
        item['input_ids'] = item['input_ids'] + sep_inputs + prompt_inputs
        item['attention_mask'] = [1] * len(item['input_ids'])
        inputs.append(item)
    return tokenizer.pad(
            inputs,
            padding=True,
            max_length=max_length + len(sep_inputs) + len(prompt_inputs),
            pad_to_multiple_of=8,
            return_tensors='pt',
    )
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma')
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma')
yes_loc = tokenizer('Yes', add_special_tokens=False)['input_ids'][0]
model.eval()
pairs = [['what is panda?', 'hi'], ['what is panda?', 'The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), sometimes called a panda bear or simply panda, is a bear species endemic to China.']]
with torch.no_grad():
    inputs = get_inputs(pairs, tokenizer)
    scores = model(**inputs, return_dict=True).logits[:, -1, yes_loc].view(-1, ).float()
    print(scores)

For LLM-based layerwise reranker

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
def get_inputs(pairs, tokenizer, prompt=None, max_length=1024):
    if prompt is None:
        prompt = "Given a query A and a passage B, determine whether the passage contains an answer to the query by providing a prediction of either 'Yes' or 'No'."
    sep = "\n"
    prompt_inputs = tokenizer(prompt,
                              return_tensors=None,
                              add_special_tokens=False)['input_ids']
    sep_inputs = tokenizer(sep,
                           return_tensors=None,
                           add_special_tokens=False)['input_ids']
    inputs = []
    for query, passage in pairs:
        query_inputs = tokenizer(f'A: {query}',
                                 return_tensors=None,
                                 add_special_tokens=False,
                                 max_length=max_length * 3 // 4,
                                 truncation=True)
        passage_inputs = tokenizer(f'B: {passage}',
                                   return_tensors=None,
                                   add_special_tokens=False,
                                   max_length=max_length,
                                   truncation=True)
        item = tokenizer.prepare_for_model(
            [tokenizer.bos_token_id] + query_inputs['input_ids'],
            sep_inputs + passage_inputs['input_ids'],
            truncation='only_second',
            max_length=max_length,
            padding=False,
            return_attention_mask=False,
            return_token_type_ids=False,
            add_special_tokens=False
        )
        item['input_ids'] = item['input_ids'] + sep_inputs + prompt_inputs
        item['attention_mask'] = [1] * len(item['input_ids'])
        inputs.append(item)
    return tokenizer.pad(
            inputs,
            padding=True,
            max_length=max_length + len(sep_inputs) + len(prompt_inputs),
            pad_to_multiple_of=8,
            return_tensors='pt',
    )
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-minicpm-layerwise', trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-minicpm-layerwise', trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
model = model.to('cuda')
model.eval()
pairs = [['what is panda?', 'hi'], ['what is panda?', 'The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), sometimes called a panda bear or simply panda, is a bear species endemic to China.']]
with torch.no_grad():
    inputs = get_inputs(pairs, tokenizer).to(model.device)
    all_scores = model(**inputs, return_dict=True, cutoff_layers=[28])
    all_scores = [scores[:, -1].view(-1, ).float() for scores in all_scores[0]]
    print(all_scores)

Fine-tune

Data Format

Train data should be a json file, where each line is a dict like this:

{"query": str, "pos": List[str], "neg":List[str], "prompt": str}

query is the query, and pos is a list of positive texts, neg is a list of negative texts, prompt indicates the relationship between query and texts. If you have no negative texts for a query, you can random sample some from the entire corpus as the negatives.

See toy_finetune_data.jsonl for a toy data file.

Train

You can fine-tune the reranker with the following code:

For llm-based reranker

torchrun --nproc_per_node {number of gpus} \
-m FlagEmbedding.llm_reranker.finetune_for_instruction.run \
--output_dir {path to save model} \
--model_name_or_path google/gemma-2b \
--train_data ./toy_finetune_data.jsonl \
--learning_rate 2e-4 \
--num_train_epochs 1 \
--per_device_train_batch_size 1 \
--gradient_accumulation_steps 16 \
--dataloader_drop_last True \
--query_max_len 512 \
--passage_max_len 512 \
--train_group_size 16 \
--logging_steps 1 \
--save_steps 2000 \
--save_total_limit 50 \
--ddp_find_unused_parameters False \
--gradient_checkpointing \
--deepspeed stage1.json \
--warmup_ratio 0.1 \
--bf16 \
--use_lora True \
--lora_rank 32 \
--lora_alpha 64 \
--use_flash_attn True \
--target_modules q_proj k_proj v_proj o_proj

For llm-based layerwise reranker

torchrun --nproc_per_node {number of gpus} \
-m FlagEmbedding.llm_reranker.finetune_for_layerwise.run \
--output_dir {path to save model} \
--model_name_or_path openbmb/MiniCPM-2B-dpo-bf16 \
--train_data ./toy_finetune_data.jsonl \
--learning_rate 2e-4 \
--num_train_epochs 1 \
--per_device_train_batch_size 1 \
--gradient_accumulation_steps 16 \
--dataloader_drop_last True \
--query_max_len 512 \
--passage_max_len 512 \
--train_group_size 16 \
--logging_steps 1 \
--save_steps 2000 \
--save_total_limit 50 \
--ddp_find_unused_parameters False \
--gradient_checkpointing \
--deepspeed stage1.json \
--warmup_ratio 0.1 \
--bf16 \
--use_lora True \
--lora_rank 32 \
--lora_alpha 64 \
--use_flash_attn True \
--target_modules q_proj k_proj v_proj o_proj \
--start_layer 8 \
--head_multi True \
--head_type simple \
--lora_extra_parameters linear_head

Our rerankers are initialized from google/gemma-2b (for llm-based reranker) and openbmb/MiniCPM-2B-dpo-bf16 (for llm-based layerwise reranker), and we train it on a mixture of multilingual datasets:

• bge-m3-data
• quora train data
• fever train data

Evaluation

• llama-index.

• BEIR.

rereank the top 100 results from bge-en-v1.5 large.

rereank the top 100 results from e5 mistral 7b instruct.

• CMTEB-retrieval.
  It rereank the top 100 results from bge-zh-v1.5 large.

• miracl (multi-language).
  It rereank the top 100 results from bge-m3.

Citation

If you find this repository useful, please consider giving a star and citation

@misc{li2023making,
      title={Making Large Language Models A Better Foundation For Dense Retrieval}, 
      author={Chaofan Li and Zheng Liu and Shitao Xiao and Yingxia Shao},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2312.15503},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
@misc{chen2024bge,
      title={BGE M3-Embedding: Multi-Lingual, Multi-Functionality, Multi-Granularity Text Embeddings Through Self-Knowledge Distillation}, 
      author={Jianlv Chen and Shitao Xiao and Peitian Zhang and Kun Luo and Defu Lian and Zheng Liu},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2402.03216},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}