tomaarsen(@tomaarsen):🚨I've just released Sentence Transformers v6.0! MultiVectorEncoder joins the family: ColBERT-style late interaction models are now a first-class model type, for training, inference & interpretation, alongside dense, sparse & reranker models. Big thread 🧵

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2026.08.18 14:00

🚨I've just released Sentence Transformers v6.0! MultiVectorEncoder joins the family: ColBERT-style late interaction models are now a first-class model type, for training, inference & interpretation, alongside dense, sparse & reranker models. Big thread 🧵