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most citedSmarter, Better, Faster, Longer: A Modern Bidirectional Encoder for Fast, Memory Efficient, and Long Context Finetuning and Inference

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cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

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…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

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…

cs.CL2024★ 28 cited

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…