Fine-tune ColBERT on one RTX 3090 to beat general-purpose retrievers
lateinteraction · x · 2026-08-26
A new blog post details training and finetuning multi-vector embedding models. As a practical example, the author finetuned a ColBERT-style model for medical retrieval on a single RTX 3090 in 14.5 hours, beating every general-purpose retriever found.
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