Pattern
Cross-encoder rerankers
Provide cross-encoder rerankers that score query-document pairs with full transformer attention, producing higher-quality ranking over the candidate set returned by first-stage retrieval.
Classification — Second-stage rerankers using full cross-attention over query-document pairs.
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