The amazingly fast (only 30M!) and extremely accurate
@answerdotai ColBERT model is now supported in Sentence Transformers to make it easy to create and query embedding indexes locally directly in Python! ๐ฅณ
๐จI'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.
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