Cohere Reranker

Integrate Cohere’s powerful reranking API with LanceDB for enhanced search results. Supports English and multilingual models with configurable scoring options for vector, FTS, and hybrid search.

Cohere Reranker

This reranker uses the Cohere API to rerank the search results. You can use this reranker by passing CohereReranker() to the rerank() method. Note that you’ll either need to set the COHERE_API_KEY environment variable or pass the api_key argument to use this reranker.

Note: Supported query types – Hybrid, Vector, and FTS.

pip install cohere

Accepted Arguments

Argument	Type	Default	Description
model_name	str	"rerank-english-v2.0"	The name of the reranker model to use. Available cohere models are: rerank-english-v2.0, rerank-multilingual-v2.0
column	str	"text"	The name of the column to use as input to the cross encoder model.
top_n	str	None	The number of results to return. If None, will return all results.
api_key	str	None	The API key for the Cohere API. If not provided, the COHERE_API_KEY environment variable is used.
return_score	str	"relevance"	Options are “relevance” or “all”. The type of score to return. If “relevance”, will return only the `_relevance_score. If “all” is supported, will return relevance score along with the vector and/or fts scores depending on query type

Supported Scores for each query type

You can specify the type of scores you want the reranker to return. The following are the supported scores for each query type:

Hybrid Search

return_score	Status	Description
relevance	✅ Supported	Results only have the _relevance_score column
all	❌ Not Supported	Results have vector(_distance) and FTS(score) along with Hybrid Search score(_relevance_score)

Vector Search

return_score	Status	Description
relevance	✅ Supported	Results only have the _relevance_score column
all	✅ Supported	Results have vector(_distance) along with Hybrid Search score(_relevance_score)

FTS Search

return_score	Status	Description
relevance	✅ Supported	Results only have the _relevance_score column
all	✅ Supported	Results have FTS(score) along with Hybrid Search score(_relevance_score)