diff --git a/backend/open_webui/routers/retrieval.py b/backend/open_webui/routers/retrieval.py
index e3c0bd5f4..f31abd9ff 100644
--- a/backend/open_webui/routers/retrieval.py
+++ b/backend/open_webui/routers/retrieval.py
@@ -150,8 +150,8 @@ def get_rf(
                     device=DEVICE_TYPE,
                     trust_remote_code=RAG_RERANKING_MODEL_TRUST_REMOTE_CODE,
                 )
-            except:
-                log.error("CrossEncoder error")
+            except Exception as e:
+                log.error(f"CrossEncoder: {e}")
                 raise Exception(ERROR_MESSAGES.DEFAULT("CrossEncoder error"))
     return rf
 
diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index dd7c85932..499eae36d 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ elasticsearch==8.17.1
 
 transformers
 sentence-transformers==3.3.1
+accelerate
 colbert-ai==0.2.21
 einops==0.8.1
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4c420af79..52260e45e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
     "transformers",
     "sentence-transformers==3.3.1",
+    "accelerate",
     "colbert-ai==0.2.21",
     "einops==0.8.1",