Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B is a text reranking model that scores the relevance between a query and a document. This quantized version provides faster inference with reduced model size while maintaining comparable accuracy.

Quantization Details

Quantization type: Dynamic INT8
Original model: Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B
Export tool: Hugging Face Optimum
Runtime: ONNX Runtime

Usage

Installation

pip install optimum[onnxruntime] transformers

Inference

python

import torch
from optimum.onnxruntime import ORTModelForCausalLM
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

# Load model and tokenizer
model = ORTModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("thomasht86/Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B-int8-ONNX", use_cache=False)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("thomasht86/Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B-int8-ONNX", fix_mistral_regex=True)

# Format input for reranking
SYSTEM_PROMPT = 'Judge whether the Document meets the requirements based on the Query and the Instruct provided. Note that the answer can only be "yes" or "no".'

def get_relevance_score(query: str, document: str, instruction: str = None) -> float:
    if instruction is None:
        instruction = "Given a web search query, retrieve relevant passages that answer the query"

    user_content = f"<Instruct>: {instruction}\n<Query>: {query}\n<Document>: {document}"

    messages = [
        {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT},
        {"role": "user", "content": user_content},
    ]

    text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True, enable_thinking=True)
    text += "<think>\n\n</think>\n\n"

    inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt")
    outputs = model(**inputs, use_cache=False)
    logits = outputs.logits[:, -1, :]

    # Get yes/no token probabilities
    token_true_id = tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("yes")
    token_false_id = tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("no")
    true_false_logits = logits[:, [token_false_id, token_true_id]]
    probs = torch.softmax(true_false_logits, dim=-1)

    return probs[:, 1].item()  # Probability of "yes" (relevant)

# Example
score = get_relevance_score(
    query="What is the capital of France?",
    document="Paris is the capital and largest city of France."
)
print(f"Relevance score: {score:.4f}")

Reproduction

The quantization script used to create this model is included in this repository as quantize_qwen3_reranker.py.

To reproduce:

bash

# Install uv if needed: pip install uv
uv run quantize_qwen3_reranker.py --output-dir ./output

License

This model inherits the license from the base model: Apache 2.0

Citation

bibtex

@article{qwen3embedding,
  title={Qwen3 Embedding: Advancing Text Embedding and Reranking Through Foundation Models},
  author={Zhang, Yanzhao and Li, Mingxin and Long, Dingkun and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.05176},
  year={2025}
}