freedom-intelligence/inventory/catalog/BAAI__bge-reranker-v2-m3__candidate.yaml
tegwick 77d4ffe86e Finish FI-WP-0002 and FI-WP-0003: daily rhythm and R-spine reserve.
Enable fi-daily-research-brief, prove fi_brief_status idempotence with the
2026-07-28 brief, approve R/S catalog entries, collect and verify embeds plus
Qwen3-8B and R1-Distill-14B on VAULT, and document residuals (HF-gated Llama,
deferred S giants, railiance ConfigMap apply).
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id: BAAI__bge-reranker-v2-m3__candidate
status: candidate
name: bge-reranker-v2-m3
org: BAAI
source:
kind: huggingface
url: https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3
revision: main
model_card_url: https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3
project_url: https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding
license:
spdx: Apache-2.0
url: https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3
allows_offline_retention: true
allows_local_ops: true
allows_fine_tune: true
notes: "Confirm SPDX on card."
profile:
summary: "Cross-encoder reranker companion to BGE-M3 for higher-precision RAG."
original_source: https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3
use_cases:
- "Second-stage rerank of top-k chunks from BGE-M3 (or hybrid) retrieval"
- "Improving answer grounding for NetKingdom / ops runbook Q&A"
- "Eval A/B of retrieval quality without changing the generator"
- "Low-cost precision boost on multilingual corpora"
sweet_spots:
- "Cheap RAG quality win after a solid bi-encoder"
- "Small VRAM; easy always-on sidecar"
- "Same BAAI/FlagEmbedding family as BGE-M3"
not_ideal_for:
- "First-stage retrieval over full corpora (too slow as sole retriever)"
- "Generation / chat"
- "When latency budget forbids a second pass"
capability_notes: >
Lightweight multilingual cross-encoder from the BGE family. W-tier optional
after R spine; high value per byte when RAG is a primary workload.
swot:
strengths:
- "Material precision lift for little disk/VRAM"
- "Proven pairing with BGE-M3"
- "Apache-friendly open stack"
weaknesses:
- "Cross-encoder cost scales with candidate count"
- "Not a substitute for better chunking or generators"
opportunities:
- "Default two-stage pipeline for lab RAG demos"
- "Tune candidate depth (k) per latency tier"
threats:
- "Newer BGE / open rerankers may supersede this checkpoint"
- "LLM-as-judge rerank experiments may reduce need for a dedicated model"
size:
total_bytes: 0
total_human: "~12 GB (estimate)"
hardware_class:
min_vram_gb_q4: 1
min_vram_gb_fp16: 2
notes: "Companion to bge-m3"
axes: [B]
priority: medium
collection:
approved_by: ""
approved_at: null
downloaded_at: null
downloaded_by: ""
storage_path: ""
brief_refs:
- research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md
reason: "P1/W — cheap RAG quality win as companion to BGE-M3."
tags: [tier-w, reranker, rag]
companions:
- BAAI__bge-m3__candidate
notes: ""
history:
- at: "2026-07-24"
event: nominated
by: baseline-survey
detail: "P1 recommendation from initial deep research."
- at: "2026-07-28"
event: profile_swot_added
by: grok
detail: "schema 0.2 profile + SWOT."
- at: "2026-07-28"
event: decision_pass
by: bernd
detail: "W — optional after BGE-M3 verified"