Perplexity's MIT-licensed ColPali models now natively supported in sentence-transformers
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-10-08
Two ColPali visual retrieval models from Perplexity's research team are MIT-licensed and now natively supported in sentence-transformers. After installing sentence-transformers>=6.0.0 and transformers>=5.4.0, they work out of the box, thanks to an integration by community maintainer tomaarsen.
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