Introducing the Ettin Reranker Family
What changed
All six models are released under the Apache 2.0 license, matching the Ettin encoders. At the top of the released range, our 1B model closely tracks its teacher. If you use the ettin-reranker-v1 family or any of the released artifacts, please cite this blogpost: @misc{aarsen2026ettin-reranker, title = "Introducing the Ettin Reranker Family", author = "Aarsen, Tom", year = "2026", publisher = "Hugging Face", url = "https://huggingface.co/blog/ettin-reranker", }
Why it matters
A concrete addition to Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks: it changes what's available to builders today rather than being general commentary.
How it compares
Related prior coverage to compare against:
- Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers
- Training and Finetuning Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers
- Introducing the Palmyra-mini family: Powerful, lightweight, and ready to reason!
Sources
- Introducing the Ettin Reranker Family (huggingface-blog)primary