Qwen3-Reranker-4B-Q8_0-GGUF

kread/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-Q8_0-GGUF

This model was converted to GGUF format from Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-4B using llama.cpp via the ggml.ai's GGUF-my-repo space. Refer to the original model card for more details on the model.

This follows ggerganov's hint and gives correct and clean scores when run on llama.cpp. I could not find another qwen3 reranker 4b GGUF that works with llama.cpp.

Use with llama.cpp

Install llama.cpp through brew (works on Mac and Linux)

brew install llama.cpp

Invoke the llama.cpp server or the CLI.

CLI:

llama-cli --hf-repo kread/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-Q8_0-GGUF --hf-file qwen3-reranker-4b-q8_0.gguf -p "The meaning to life and the universe is"

Server:

llama-server --hf-repo kread/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-Q8_0-GGUF --hf-file qwen3-reranker-4b-q8_0.gguf -c 2048

Note: You can also use this checkpoint directly through the usage steps listed in the Llama.cpp repo as well.

Step 1: Clone llama.cpp from GitHub.

git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

Step 2: Move into the llama.cpp folder and build it with LLAMA_CURL=1 flag along with other hardware-specific flags (for ex: LLAMA_CUDA=1 for Nvidia GPUs on Linux).

cd llama.cpp && LLAMA_CURL=1 make

Step 3: Run inference through the main binary.

./llama-cli --hf-repo kread/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-Q8_0-GGUF --hf-file qwen3-reranker-4b-q8_0.gguf -p "The meaning to life and the universe is"

or

./llama-server --hf-repo kread/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-Q8_0-GGUF --hf-file qwen3-reranker-4b-q8_0.gguf -c 2048