Blog: Training Multi-Vector Models with Sentence Transformers

tomaarsen · x · 2026-08-26

New blog post: 'Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers'. As a practical example, the author finetuned a ColBERT-style model for medical retrieval. It took 14.5 hours on one RTX 3090 and beats every general-purpose retriever available.

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