Tencent releases EVIE visual document retrieval models as Apache 2.0 preview

tomaarsen · x · 2026-09-14

Tencent's EVIE family is likewise fully Apache 2.0 licensed. Taking EVIE-Preview-4.5B as an example: fine-tuned from Qwen3.5-4B, it targets visual document retrieval, supporting multi-vector late-interaction (colpali/colbert style) and dense retrieval, compatible with colpali-engine and sentence-transformers ecosystems, multilingual (English, Chinese, Japanese, etc.), trained and evaluated on the ViDoRE benchmark.

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