LocalAI.Reranker 0.7.2

dotnet add package LocalAI.Reranker --version 0.7.2
                    
NuGet\Install-Package LocalAI.Reranker -Version 0.7.2
                    
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.
<PackageReference Include="LocalAI.Reranker" Version="0.7.2" />
                    
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
<PackageVersion Include="LocalAI.Reranker" Version="0.7.2" />
                    
Directory.Packages.props
<PackageReference Include="LocalAI.Reranker" />
                    
Project file
For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package.
paket add LocalAI.Reranker --version 0.7.2
                    
#r "nuget: LocalAI.Reranker, 0.7.2"
                    
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.
#:package LocalAI.Reranker@0.7.2
                    
#:package directive can be used in C# file-based apps starting in .NET 10 preview 4. Copy this into a .cs file before any lines of code to reference the package.
#addin nuget:?package=LocalAI.Reranker&version=0.7.2
                    
Install as a Cake Addin
#tool nuget:?package=LocalAI.Reranker&version=0.7.2
                    
Install as a Cake Tool

LocalAI.Reranker

Local semantic reranking for .NET with cross-encoder models.

Features

  • Zero-config: Models download automatically from HuggingFace
  • GPU Acceleration: CUDA, DirectML (Windows), CoreML (macOS)
  • Cross-platform: Windows, Linux, macOS
  • RAG Integration: Perfect for improving retrieval quality

Quick Start

using LocalAI.Reranker;

// Load the default model
await using var reranker = await LocalReranker.LoadAsync("default");

// Rerank documents
var results = await reranker.RerankAsync(
    query: "What is machine learning?",
    documents: ["ML is a branch of AI...", "The weather is nice..."],
    topK: 5);

foreach (var result in results)
    Console.WriteLine($"{result.Index}: {result.Score:F3}");

Available Models

Alias Model Size Description
default MS MARCO MiniLM L6 ~90MB Best speed/quality balance
fast MS MARCO TinyBERT ~18MB Ultra-fast, latency-critical
quality BGE Reranker Base ~440MB Higher accuracy, multilingual
large BGE Reranker Large ~1.1GB Highest accuracy
multilingual BGE Reranker v2-m3 ~1.1GB 8K context, 100+ languages

GPU Acceleration

# NVIDIA GPU
dotnet add package Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.Gpu

# Windows (AMD/Intel/NVIDIA)
dotnet add package Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.DirectML
Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET net10.0 is compatible.  net10.0-android was computed.  net10.0-browser was computed.  net10.0-ios was computed.  net10.0-maccatalyst was computed.  net10.0-macos was computed.  net10.0-tvos was computed.  net10.0-windows was computed. 
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0.7.2 101 12/15/2025
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