Introducing JaColBERTv2.5🇯🇵, the new best Japanese retrieval model. Through this release, we present a thorough analysis to better understand what helps in training a good multi-vector retrieval model.
日本語版は近日公開予定です（日本語を勉強中なので、間違いはご容赦ください！） Welcome to this stream-of-thoughts report on fio-base-japanese-v0.1, the first version of Fio, a family of Japanese sentence embeddings. These are all notes I took while training the models, vaguely ordered in relevant categories! I hope that they can be useful to anyone interested in Japanese embeddings. In short: Fio-v0.1 is currently (18/12/2023) the best similarity sentence embeddings model for Japanese, as well as the best overall monolingual model (similarity + retrieval)....