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SecureBERT2.0-cross_encoder

The cross-encoder companion to SecureBERT2.0-biencoder, designed for reranking in cybersecurity retrieval pipelines. Cross-encoders jointly encode query and document pairs, making them more accurate but slower than biencoder retrieval for re-scoring top candidates.

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Publisher (HF namespace)
cisco-ai
Pipeline tag
sentence-similarity
Library
Sentence Transformers
Weight formats
safetensors
License tag
apache-2.0 — read the license file in the repo before relying on it
Lineage
Language tags
English (en)
Papers cited
arXiv:2510.00240
Downloads (HF counter at last fetch)
350,197
Likes (HF counter at last fetch)
3
Model card
https://huggingface.co/cisco-ai/SecureBERT2.0-cross_encoder

Use cases

  • Reranking candidate documents in security threat-intelligence search
  • CVE relevance scoring given a vulnerability description
  • Two-stage IR pipeline: biencoder retrieves, cross-encoder reranks
  • Building security chatbots with high-precision document grounding

Pros

  • Security-domain fine-tuning outperforms generic cross-encoders on sec text
  • Pairs naturally with SecureBERT2.0-biencoder for end-to-end pipeline
  • Apache 2.0 license
  • ModernBERT backbone supports longer sequences than classic BERT

Cons

  • Cross-encoders are O(n) at query time — not suitable for large candidate sets without biencoder pre-filtering
  • English-only; non-English security content not covered
  • No published MRR or NDCG numbers against TREC or BEIR security subsets
  • Relatively small training set (35k pairs)

Tags

sentence-transformerssafetensorsmodernbertIRrerankingsecurebertdocembeddingsentence-similarityenarxiv:2510.00240base_model:cisco-ai/SecureBERT2.0-basebase_model:finetune:cisco-ai/SecureBERT2.0-baselicense:apache-2.0text-embeddings-inferenceendpoints_compatibleregion:us