Sentence Transformers v6.0 ships: ColBERT-style multi-vector models become first-class
tomaarsen · x · 2026-08-18
Tom Aarsen released Sentence Transformers v6.0, adding a MultiVectorEncoder model type so ColBERT-style late-interaction models now sit alongside dense, sparse and reranker models — first-class for training, inference and interpretation. A follow-up thread walks through the details.
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