Token pooling pairs well with embedding quantization and Matryoshka, says tomaarsen

tomaarsen · x · 2026-11-11

sentence-transformers maintainer tomaarsen shares that token pooling works remarkably well alongside (asymmetric) embedding quantization, and even with Matryoshka representation learning — though Matryoshka is lossier, it works well for models with native dimensionality well above 128.

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