""" Cross-encoder neural reranking for search results. """ from typing import List from .types import MergedCandidate, ScoredResult class CrossEncoderReranker: """ Neural reranking using a cross-encoder model. Uses cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2 by default: - Fast inference (~80ms for 100 pairs on CPU) - Small model (80MB) - Trained for passage re-ranking """ def __init__(self, cross_encoder=None): """ Initialize cross-encoder reranker. Args: cross_encoder: CrossEncoderReranker instance. If None, uses default SentenceTransformersCrossEncoder with ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2 (loaded lazily for faster startup) """ if cross_encoder is None: from hindsight_api.engine.cross_encoder import SentenceTransformersCrossEncoder # Model is loaded lazily - call ensure_loaded() during initialize() cross_encoder = SentenceTransformersCrossEncoder() self.cross_encoder = cross_encoder def rerank( self, query: str, candidates: List[MergedCandidate] ) -> List[ScoredResult]: """ Rerank candidates using cross-encoder scores. Args: query: Search query candidates: Merged candidates from RRF Returns: List of ScoredResult objects sorted by cross-encoder score """ if not candidates: return [] # Prepare query-document pairs with date information pairs = [] for candidate in candidates: retrieval = candidate.retrieval # Use text + context for better ranking doc_text = retrieval.text if retrieval.context: doc_text = f"{retrieval.context}: {doc_text}" # Add formatted date information for temporal awareness if retrieval.occurred_start: occurred_start = retrieval.occurred_start # Format in two styles for better model understanding # 1. ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD date_iso = occurred_start.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") # 2. Human-readable: "June 5, 2022" date_readable = occurred_start.strftime("%B %d, %Y") # Prepend date to document text doc_text = f"[Date: {date_readable} ({date_iso})] {doc_text}" pairs.append([query, doc_text]) # Get cross-encoder scores scores = self.cross_encoder.predict(pairs) # Normalize scores using sigmoid to [0, 1] range # Cross-encoder returns logits which can be negative import numpy as np def sigmoid(x): return 1 / (1 + np.exp(-x)) normalized_scores = [sigmoid(score) for score in scores] # Create ScoredResult objects with cross-encoder scores scored_results = [] for candidate, raw_score, norm_score in zip(candidates, scores, normalized_scores): scored_result = ScoredResult( candidate=candidate, cross_encoder_score=float(raw_score), cross_encoder_score_normalized=float(norm_score), weight=float(norm_score) # Initial weight is just cross-encoder score ) scored_results.append(scored_result) # Sort by cross-encoder score scored_results.sort(key=lambda x: x.weight, reverse=True) return scored_results