LightOn Open-Sources 149M Param Retrieval Models Achieving SOTA
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-07-31
LightOne released DenseOn and LateOn, fully open-source dense and late-interaction retrieval models. The recipe achieves SOTA performance in multilingual, long-context, and code search tasks with only 149M parameters, demonstrating strong generalization.
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