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DenseOn with the LateOn: Fully Open Dense and Late-Interaction Models for Multilingual, Long-Context, and Code Search
Raphaël Sourty, Antoine Chaffin, Paulo Roberto Moura Junior +1
State-of-the-art retrieval models increasingly rely on closed training data, creating a reproducibility gap. We present an open end-to-end recipe for training retrieval models and…
ColBERT-Zero: To Pre-train Or Not To Pre-train ColBERT models
Antoine Chaffin, Luca Arnaboldi, Amélie Chatelain +1
Current state-of-the-art multi-vector models are obtained through a small Knowledge Distillation (KD) training step on top of strong single-vector models, leveraging the large-scal…
LIR: The First Workshop on Late Interaction and Multi Vector Retrieval @ ECIR 2026
Benjamin Clavié, Xianming Li, Antoine Chaffin +4
Late interaction retrieval methods, pioneered by ColBERT, have emerged as a powerful alternative to single-vector neural IR. By leveraging fine-grained, token-level representations…
PyLate: Flexible Training and Retrieval for Late Interaction Models
Antoine Chaffin, Raphaël Sourty
Neural ranking has become a cornerstone of modern information retrieval. While single vector search remains the dominant paradigm, it suffers from the shortcoming of compressing al…
Seq vs Seq: An Open Suite of Paired Encoders and Decoders
Orion Weller, Kathryn Ricci, Marc Marone +3
The large language model (LLM) community focuses almost exclusively on decoder-only language models, since they are easier to use for text generation. However, a large subset of th…
BioClinical ModernBERT: A State-of-the-Art Long-Context Encoder for Biomedical and Clinical NLP
Thomas Sounack, Joshua Davis, Brigitte Durieux +7
Encoder-based transformer models are central to biomedical and clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP), as their bidirectional self-attention makes them well-suited for efficien…
Smarter, Better, Faster, Longer: A Modern Bidirectional Encoder for Fast, Memory Efficient, and Long Context Finetuning and Inference
Benjamin Warner, Antoine Chaffin, Benjamin Clavié +11
Encoder-only transformer models such as BERT offer a great performance-size tradeoff for retrieval and classification tasks with respect to larger decoder-only models. Despite bein…
Reducing the Footprint of Multi-Vector Retrieval with Minimal Performance Impact via Token Pooling
Benjamin Clavié, Antoine Chaffin, Griffin Adams
Over the last few years, multi-vector retrieval methods, spearheaded by ColBERT, have become an increasingly popular approach to Neural IR. By storing representations at the token…