Sentence Transformers v6.0 unifies checkpoint loading for all late-interaction formats
tomaarsen · x · 2026-08-18
With Sentence Transformers v6.0, every checkpoint format loads through the same class: PyLate, Stanford-NLP ColBERT (via the HFColBERT marker + artifact.metadata), ColPali-style VLMs, or a bare backbone with a fresh projection; prefixes, query expansion and the punctuation skiplist come from the saved config. Context: ST originally handled only dense and sparse, so LightOn built PyLate on top to close the gap — those capabilities now land in ST itself in v6.0, designed together with PyLate's authors.
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