LightOn's mLateOn Tops Multilingual ColBERT Retrieval with Just 115M Parameters

LightOn released mLateOn, a multilingual ColBERT-style retrieval model with only 115M active parameters (312M total). It ranked first among 11 late-interaction models on HAKARI-Bench, beating the runner-up by 8.3 points and rivaling 8B dense models with about a quarter of the parameters.

2026-08-20 ~ 2026-08-20 · 3 related posts

• mLateOn tops multilingual ColBERT retrieval with 115M active params, rivals 8B dense models — IgorCarron · 2026-08-20
• mLateOn wins HAKARI-Bench by 8.33 points with a quarter of runner-up's active params — IgorCarron · 2026-08-20
• LightOn releases mLateOn: SOTA multilingual retrieval with just 115M parameters — antoine_chaffin · 2026-08-20