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Regarding Sentence Transformers v6.0 update: A dense model compresses a whole text into one vector, then compares two vectors. A multi-vecto…
Regarding Sentence Transformers v6.0 update: A dense model compresses a whole text into one vector, then compares two vectors. A multi-vector model keeps one vector per token, scores every query token
Regarding Sentence Transformers v6.0 update: A dense model compresses a whole text into one vector, then compares two vectors. A multi-vector model keeps one vector per token, scores every query token against every document token, takes the best match for each, and sums those. Media 🚨I've just released Sentence Transformers v6.0! MultiVectorEncoder joins the family: ColBERT-style late interaction models are now a first-class model type, for training, inference & interpretation, alongside dense, sparse & reranker models. Big thread 🧵
Source: Jeremy Howard (X) | 2026-08-19