Ettin Reranker Family: 6 CrossEncoder Models 17M–1B, SOTA at Every Size
Hugging Face has released the Ettin Reranker family, six CrossEncoder reranking models spanning 17M to 1B parameters, each achieving state-of-the-art performance in its size class. Built on Ettin ModernBERT encoder backbones and trained on approximately 143 million triples, the family covers a wide range of inference budget constraints. The full training recipe is published alongside the model weights.
Why It Matters
A SOTA reranker at 17M parameters is deployable in latency-constrained or memory-limited environments where larger rerankers are impractical. The complete training recipe release also gives teams an open path to domain-adapted fine-tuning — unusual for a released SOTA model family.