view article Article Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers +1 tomaarsen, NohTow, raphaelsty • Aug 18 • 117
view article Article mDenseOn with the mLateOn: Open Multilingual, Long-Context, and Code Retrieval Models lightonai • Jul 30 • 39
mDenseOn & mLateOn Collection A collection of open state-of-the-art single and multi-vector models and datasets for multilingual, long context and code retrieval • 19 items • Updated 8 days ago • 19
view article Article One Adapter, Both Modalities: Field Notes from Building and Serving a Multimodal Reranker lightonai • Jul 16 • 20
DenseOn & LateOn Collection A collection of open state-of-the-art single and multi-vector models for English retrieval • 9 items • Updated 8 days ago • 13
view article Article DenseOn with the LateOn: Open State-of-the-Art Single and Multi-Vector Models lightonai • Apr 21 • 46
pplx-embed Collection Diffusion-Pretrained Dense and Contextual Embeddings • 12 items • Updated 25 days ago • 103
jina-embeddings-v5-text: Task-Targeted Embedding Distillation Paper • 2602.15547 • Published Feb 17 • 32
view article Article **ColBERT-Zero: To Pre-train Or Not To Pre-train ColBERT models?** lightonai • Feb 19 • 23
ColBERT-Zero 🐶 Collection First large-scale fully pre-trained ColBERT model using only public data, outperforming GTE-ModernColBERT and GTE-ModernBERT • 10 items • Updated 8 days ago • 24
ColBERT-Zero: To Pre-train Or Not To Pre-train ColBERT models Paper • 2602.16609 • Published Feb 18 • 9
OriOn 💫 Collection Visual long document VLMs based on Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503 and Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct • 5 items • Updated 8 days ago • 5
view article Article LateOn-Code & ColGrep: LightOn unveils state-of-the-art code retrieval models and code search tooling lightonai • Feb 12 • 59
LateOn-Code 💻 Collection State-of-the-art late interaction code retrieval models • 6 items • Updated 8 days ago • 21
view article Article LightOnOCR-2-1B: a lightweight high-performance end-to-end OCR model family lightonai • Jan 19 • 104
NanoBEIR datasets Collection These datasets are compatible with the (Sparse)NanoBEIREvaluator with Sentence Transformers v5.2+. Also CrossEncoderNanoBEIREvaluator if bm25 column • 16 items • Updated Aug 18 • 18
view article Article TurkColBERT: A Benchmark of Dense and Late-Interaction Models for Turkish Information Retrieval nmmursit • Dec 4, 2025 • 19
view article Article LightOnOCR-1B: The Case for End-to-End and Efficient Domain-Specific Vision-Language Models for OCR lightonai • Oct 23, 2025 • 75
Simple Projection Variants Improve ColBERT Performance Paper • 2510.12327 • Published Oct 14, 2025 • 9