Open-Source French Sparse Retrieval Model sparseup-fr-v0 Lands on Hugging Face
tomaarsen · x · 2026-10-12
alphaedge-ai released sparseup-fr-v0, an open-source (Apache-2.0) French sparse retrieval and sentence-similarity model fine-tuned from lightonai/mLateOn-unsupervised.
- Built on a ModernBERT backbone with SPLADE-style sparse representations
- Shipped via sentence-transformers with safetensors, compatible with text-embeddings-inference
- Sparse embeddings can match synonyms in queries, unlike exact-match BM25
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