Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B
by Qwen
Cross-modal reranker for text, image, and video retrieval
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2Bmixpeek://reranker@v1/qwen3_vl_reranker_2b_v1Overview
Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B is a 2B-parameter cross-encoder reranker that scores (query, document) pairs where both the query and document can be text, images, screenshots, or video frames. Unlike embedding models that encode queries and documents independently, cross-encoders jointly attend to both, producing more accurate relevance scores at the cost of higher latency.
This model fills a critical gap in multimodal retrieval pipelines: first-stage retrieval uses fast bi-encoder embeddings to find candidates, then the reranker rescores the top-K candidates with cross-attention for higher precision.
Architecture
Cross-encoder architecture built on Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct. Jointly processes query and document tokens with full cross-attention. Outputs a single relevance score per pair. Supports 30+ languages.
Mixpeek SDK Integration
import { Mixpeek } from "mixpeek";
const mx = new Mixpeek({ apiKey: "API_KEY" });
// Managed: create a collection over a bucket; Mixpeek runs this model's extractor
const collection = await mx.collections.create({
namespace_id: "my-namespace",
collection_name: "my-collection",
source: { type: "bucket", bucket_ids: ["bkt_your_bucket"] },
feature_extractor: {
feature_extractor_name: "feature_search",
version: "v1",
parameters: { model_id: "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B" },
},
});Capabilities
- Cross-modal reranking: text-to-image, image-to-text, text-to-video
- Joint query-document attention for higher precision than bi-encoders
- 30+ language support
- Pairs naturally with Qwen3-VL-Embedding for two-stage retrieval
- Handles screenshots, documents, and video frames as document inputs
Use Cases on Mixpeek
Common Pipeline Companions
Specification
Research Paper
Qwen3-VL-Reranker
arxiv.orgBuild a pipeline with Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B
Add this model to a processing pipeline alongside other extractors. Combine with retrieval stages for end-to-end search.
Run it on your own data, free