A couple weeks ago, we released JaColBERTv2.5, using an updated ColBERT training recipe to create the state-of-the-art Japanese retrieval model. Today, we’re introducing a new model, answerai-colbert-small-v1 (🤗), a proof of concept for smaller, faster, modern ColBERT models. This new model builds upon the JaColBERTv2.5 recipe and has just 33 million parameters, meaning it’s able to search through hundreds of thousands of documents in milliseconds, on CPU. Despite its small size, it’...
