bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-0923

For more details please refer to our Github: BGE-Reasoner.

BGE-Reasoner-Embed-Qwen3-8B-0923 is an embedding model trained for reasoning-intensive retrieval tasks, based on Qwen/Qwen3-8B. It achieves an nDCG@10 of 37.1 on the BRIGHT benchmark with original query, demonstrating its strong capability in reasoning-intensive retrieval tasks.

The search results on BRIGHT are available here.

Usage

Using FlagEmbedding

git clone https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding.git
cd FlagEmbedding
pip install -e .

from FlagEmbedding import FlagLLMModel
queries = [
    # taken from BRIGHT TheoT dataset, qid: examples-TheoremQA_wenhuchen/eigen_value1.json
    "Imagine you have a magical box that transforms any object you put inside it, where the object is represented by the column vector x = (x_1, x_2). The box's transformation can be represented by the matrix A = [[5, 4], [1, 2]], so when given an object x, the box outputs the new object Ax. On some special objects, this new object is just a constant multiple of the original object, λx = (λx_1, λx_2). Find both possible values of λ where this occurs — note that these are the box's eigenvalues.",
    # taken from BRIGHT TheoT dataset, qid: examples-TheoremQA_maxku/ipnetwork13-hammingdist.json
    "Imagine you're comparing three digital images that are extremely simplified down to a grid of 5 pixels each, represented by either black (0) or white (1) pixels. The images are as follows: Image A: 00000, Image B: 10101, and Image C: 01010. By counting the number of pixels that differ between each pair of images, find the smallest number of differing pixels."
]
documents = [
    # taken from BRIGHT TheoT dataset, docid: 2723
    "\\begin{definition}[Definition:Eigenvector/Linear Operator]\nLet $K$ be a field.\nLet $V$ be a vector space over $K$. \nLet $A : V \\to V$ be a linear operator.\nLet $\\lambda \\in K$ be an eigenvalue of $A$.\nA non-zero vector $v \\in V$ is an '''eigenvector corresponding to $\\lambda$''' {{iff}}:\n:$v \\in \\map \\ker {A - \\lambda I}$\nwhere: \n:$I : V \\to V$ is the identity mapping on $V$\n:$\\map \\ker {A - \\lambda I}$ denotes the kernel of $A - \\lambda I$.\nThat is, {{iff}}: \n:$A v = \\lambda v$\n\\end{definition}",
    # taken from BRIGHT TheoT dataset, docid: 14101
    "\\section{Error Correction Capability of Linear Code}\nTags: Linear Codes\n\n\\begin{theorem}\nLet $C$ be a linear code.\nLet $C$ have a minimum distance $d$.\nThen $C$ corrects $e$ transmission errors for all $e$ such that $2 e + 1 \\le d$.\n\\end{theorem}\n\n\\begin{proof}\nLet $C$ be a linear code whose master code is $V$.\nLet $c \\in C$ be a transmitted codeword.\nLet $v$ be the received word from $c$.\nBy definition, $v$ is an element of $V$.\nLet $v$ have a distance $e$ from $c$, where $2 e + 1 \\le d$.\nThus there have been $e$ transmission errors.\n{{AimForCont}} $c_1$ is a codeword of $C$, distinct from $c$, such that $\\map d {v, c_1} \\le e$.\nThen:\n{{begin-eqn}}\n{{eqn | l = \\map d {c, c_1}\n      | o = \\le\n      | r = \\map d {c, v} + \\map d {v, c_1}\n      | c = \n}}\n{{eqn | o = \\le\n      | r = e + e\n      | c = \n}}\n{{eqn | o = <\n      | r = d\n      | c = \n}}\n{{end-eqn}}\nSo $c_1$ has a distance from $c$ less than $d$.\nBut $C$ has a minimum distance $d$.\nThus $c_1$ cannot be a codeword of $C$.\nFrom this contradiction it follows that there is no codeword of $C$ closer to $v$ than $c$.\nHence there is a unique codeword of $C$ which has the smallest distance from $v$.\nHence it can be understood that $C$ has corrected the transmission errors of $v$.\n{{Qed}}\n\\end{proof}\n\n"
]
model = FlagLLMModel("BAAI/bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-8b-0923",
                     query_instruction_for_retrieval="Given a Math problem, retrieve relevant theorems that help answer the problem.",
                     query_instruction_format="Instruct: {}\nQuery: {}",
                     devices="cuda:0",  # set devices to "cuda:0" for testing on a single GPU
                     use_fp16=True) # Setting use_fp16 to True speeds up computation with a slight performance degradation
embeddings_1 = model.encode_queries(queries)
embeddings_2 = model.encode_corpus(documents)
similarity = embeddings_1 @ embeddings_2.T
print(similarity)
# [[0.8228 0.5386]
#  [0.575  0.6533]]

Using Sentence Transformers

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
import torch

# Load the model, optionally in float16 precision for faster inference
model = SentenceTransformer("BAAI/bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-8b-0923", model_kwargs={"torch_dtype": torch.float16})

queries = [
    # taken from BRIGHT TheoT dataset, qid: examples-TheoremQA_wenhuchen/eigen_value1.json
    "Imagine you have a magical box that transforms any object you put inside it, where the object is represented by the column vector x = (x_1, x_2). The box's transformation can be represented by the matrix A = [[5, 4], [1, 2]], so when given an object x, the box outputs the new object Ax. On some special objects, this new object is just a constant multiple of the original object, λx = (λx_1, λx_2). Find both possible values of λ where this occurs — note that these are the box's eigenvalues.",
    # taken from BRIGHT TheoT dataset, qid: examples-TheoremQA_maxku/ipnetwork13-hammingdist.json
    "Imagine you're comparing three digital images that are extremely simplified down to a grid of 5 pixels each, represented by either black (0) or white (1) pixels. The images are as follows: Image A: 00000, Image B: 10101, and Image C: 01010. By counting the number of pixels that differ between each pair of images, find the smallest number of differing pixels."
]
documents = [
    # taken from BRIGHT TheoT dataset, docid: 2723
    "