fleet-memory/hindsight-api/hindsight_api/engine/search/reranking.py
2025-12-10 12:12:21 +01:00

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"""
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.
Configured via environment variables (see cross_encoder.py).
Default local model is cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2.
"""
def __init__(self, cross_encoder=None):
"""
Initialize cross-encoder reranker.
Args:
cross_encoder: CrossEncoderModel instance. If None, creates one from
environment variables (defaults to local provider)
"""
if cross_encoder is None:
from hindsight_api.engine.cross_encoder import create_cross_encoder_from_env
cross_encoder = create_cross_encoder_from_env()
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