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ModernBERT rerankers now support classifier pooling.

ModernBERT rerankers now support classifier pooling, with a fallback to mean when unspecified.

1 Oct 20261 verified claims1 sources1 observations
What happened

The official source reports this update: b11273: model : support classifier_pooling for rerankers. model : support classifier_pooling for rerankers ( #29627 ) model : support classifier_pooling for ModernBERT rerankers Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 model : read classifier pooling type in load_hparams Write classifier.pooling_type from _try_set_pooling_type whenever the config has classifier_pooling, and read it in llama_model_base::load_hparams. ModernBERT falls back to mean when it is unspecified.

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This official update documents a development concerning b11273: model : support classifier_pooling for rerankers. Its practical significance depends on the scope and evidence stated by the source.

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llama.cpp official releasesb11273: model : support classifier_pooling for rerankers
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