Jeremy Howard
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! 🥳
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 🧵