AlibabaQwen Reranker

Qwen3-Reranker-8B

Qwen3 Reranker scores candidate relevance with task instructions. The published model supports over 100 languages and 32,000-token sequences.

Practical use

Practical guidance. Use a fixed candidate set when comparing rerankers. Otherwise, changes in the first retrieval stage can be mistaken for an improvement in the ranking model.

Specifications & access

Qwen3-Reranker-8B specifications
DetailValue and conditions
AccessDownloadable
Model identifiersQwen/Qwen3-Reranker-8B
Output purposeRelevance ranking; it does not create a stored document embedding.Qwen3-Reranker-8B model card
LicenceApache 2.0.Qwen3-Reranker-8B model card

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