SBERT docs index open sparse encoder models, plus MIT-licensed splade-mini and splade-tiny
tomaarsen · x · 2026-09-17
tomaarsen points to the sentence-transformers docs pretrained models page, showing SparseEncoder usage: load naver/splade-v3 from the HF Hub in one line and encode queries and documents into sparse vectors. He also highlights MIT-licensed splade-mini and splade-tiny by Yosef Worku Alemneh.
Related event: Linkup Open-Sources SparseUp: 149M-Parameter Sparse Retriever Tops BEIR-13(12 posts)→
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