Can rerankers scale at test time—not by generating longer reasoning traces, but by selectively using richer document representations?
KaLM-Reranker-V1 supports Matryoshka compression from 1× to 32×, which suggests a progressive multi-fidelity pipeline:
- Embedding retrieval → Top-100 - KaLM-Reranker @ 32× compression → Top-20 - The same reranker @ 2× compression → final ranking
The intuition is simple: cheaply screen many candidates, then allocate higher-fidelity cross-attention only to the most promising ones.
For 100@32× → 20@2×, the passage-token interaction budget is roughly 31.8% of directly running 100@2×, before fixed model overheads. The key question is whether it can retain nearly the same ranking quality.
Can rerankers scale at test time—not by generating longer reasoning traces, but by selectively using richer document representations?
KaLM-Reranker-V1 supports Matryoshka compression from 1× to 32×, which suggests a progressive multi-fidelity pipeline:
- Embedding retrieval → Top-100 - KaLM-Reranker @ 32× compression → Top-20 - The same reranker @ 2× compression → final ranking
The intuition is simple: cheaply screen many candidates, then allocate higher-fidelity cross-attention only to the most promising ones.
For 100@32× → 20@2×, the passage-token interaction budget is roughly 31.8% of directly running 100@2×, before fixed model overheads. The key question is whether it can retain nearly the same ranking quality.
Can rerankers scale at test time—not by generating longer reasoning traces, but by selectively using richer document representations?
KaLM-Reranker-V1 supports Matryoshka compression from 1× to 32×, which suggests a progressive multi-fidelity pipeline:
- Embedding retrieval → Top-100 - KaLM-Reranker @ 32× compression → Top-20 - The same reranker @ 2× compression → final ranking
The intuition is simple: cheaply screen many candidates, then allocate higher-fidelity cross-attention only to the most promising ones.
For 100@32× → 20@2×, the passage-token interaction budget is roughly 31.8% of directly running 100@2×, before fixed model overheads. The key question is whether it can retain nearly the same ranking quality.