Sentence Transformers v6.0 Released with ColBERT Support

lateinteraction · x · 2026-08-18

Sentence Transformers v6.0 has been released, introducing the MultiVectorEncoder. This update brings ColBERT-style late interaction models as a first-class citizen for training, inference, and interpretation, alongside the existing dense, sparse, and reranker model types.

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