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LightOnFebruary 19, 2026

ColBERT-Zero

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ML

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### TL;DR

ColBERT-Zero is a late interaction model trained from scratch using PyLate, designed for multi-vector retrieval tasks. Developed in collaboration with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss AI Initiative, it achieves state-of-the-art results on the BEIR benchmark with under 150 million parameters, utilizing only public data.

Key Insights & Metrics

Pricing
Open source under Apache 2.0 license
Cost structure
Version
1.0
Current release version
Hardware
NVIDIA A100 GPU, 32GB RAM
Compute requirements
Category
Open Source
Licensing model
Region
United States
Primary region

Key Features

  • Late interaction model architecture
  • Trained from scratch with PyLate
  • State-of-the-art performance on BEIR benchmark
  • Utilizes only public data for training
  • Collaboration with EPFL and Swiss AI Initiative

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