modified config, debugging initialization issues

config.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-CROSSENCODER_MODEL = '.'
 CROSSENCODER_TOP_K = 6
 CROSSENCODER_MAX_LENGTH = 512
 CROSSENCODER_MAX_WORKERS = 4

handler.py

@@ -31,14 +31,13 @@ class Rank(BaseModel):
 
 
 class EndpointHandler:
-    def __init__(self, path=""):
-        crossencoder_model = config.CROSSENCODER_MODEL
+    def __init__(self, path):
         self.top_k = config.CROSSENCODER_TOP_K
         self.max_length = config.CROSSENCODER_MAX_LENGTH
         self.max_workers = config.CROSSENCODER_MAX_WORKERS
 
         self.model = CrossEncoder(
-            crossencoder_model,
+            path,
             max_length=self.max_length
         )
         logger.info(