Sentence Transformers v6.0 Released with ColBERT-style Late Interaction Support

antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-08-19

Sentence Transformers v6.0 is now available. The update introduces MultiVectorEncoder, bringing ColBERT-style late interaction models as a first-class citizen for training, inference, and interpretation, alongside existing dense, sparse, and reranker models.

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