Jina Reranker

This reranker uses theJina API to rerank the search results. You can use this reranker by passingJinaReranker() to thererank() method. Note that you'll either need to set theJINA_API_KEY environment variable or pass theapi_key argument to use this reranker.

Note

Supported Query Types: Hybrid, Vector, FTS

importosimportlancedbfromlancedb.embeddingsimportget_registryfromlancedb.pydanticimportLanceModel,Vectorfromlancedb.rerankersimportJinaRerankeros.environ['JINA_API_KEY']="jina_*"embedder=get_registry().get("jina").create()db=lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")classSchema(LanceModel):text:str=embedder.SourceField()vector:Vector(embedder.ndims())=embedder.VectorField()data=[{"text":"hello world"},{"text":"goodbye world"}]tbl=db.create_table("test",schema=Schema,mode="overwrite")tbl.add(data)reranker=JinaReranker(api_key="key")# Run vector search with a rerankerresult=tbl.search("hello").rerank(reranker=reranker).to_list()# Run FTS search with a rerankerresult=tbl.search("hello",query_type="fts").rerank(reranker=reranker).to_list()# Run hybrid search with a rerankertbl.create_fts_index("text",replace=True)result=tbl.search("hello",query_type="hybrid").rerank(reranker=reranker).to_list()

Accepted Arguments

Argument	Type	Default	Description
`model_name`	`str`	`"jina-reranker-v2-base-multilingual"`	The name of the reranker model to use. You can find the list of available models in https://jina.ai/reranker.
`column`	`str`	`"text"`	The name of the column to use as input to the cross encoder model.
`top_n`	`str`	`None`	The number of results to return. If None, will return all results.
`api_key`	`str`	`None`	The API key for the Jina API. If not provided, the`JINA_API_KEY` environment variable is used.
`return_score`	str	`"relevance"`	Options are "relevance" or "all". The type of score to return. If "relevance", will return only the `_relevance_score. If "all" is supported, will return relevance score along with the vector and/or fts scores depending on query type.

Supported Scores for each query type

You can specify the type of scores you want the reranker to return. The following are the supported scores for each query type:

Hybrid Search

`return_score`	Status	Description
`relevance`	✅ Supported	Results only have the`_relevance_score` column.
`all`	❌ Not Supported	Results have vector(`_distance`) and FTS(`score`) along with Hybrid Search score(`_relevance_score`).

Vector Search

`return_score`	Status	Description
`relevance`	✅ Supported	Results only have the`_relevance_score` column.
`all`	✅ Supported	Results have vector(`_distance`) along with Hybrid Search score(`_relevance_score`).

FTS Search

`return_score`	Status	Description
`relevance`	✅ Supported	Results only have the`_relevance_score` column.
`all`	✅ Supported	Results have FTS(`score`) along with Hybrid Search score(`_relevance_score`).