tomaarsen(@tomaarsen):📈 New blog post: Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers. As a practical example, I finetuned a ColBERT-style model for medical retrieval. 14.5 hours on one RTX 3090, and it beats every general-purpose retriever I could find. Thread 🧵

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2026.08.26 13:55

📈 New blog post: Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers. As a practical example, I finetuned a ColBERT-style model for medical retrieval. 14.5 hours on one RTX 3090, and it beats every general-purpose retriever I could find. Thread 🧵