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This is a [ColBERT](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2112.01488) model that can be used for semantic search in many languages.
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It encodes queries
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which allows it to learn from monolingual fine-tuning in a high-resource language, like English, and perform zero-shot retrieval across multiple languages.
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## Usage
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This is a [ColBERT](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2112.01488) model that can be used for semantic search in many languages.
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It encodes queries and passages into matrices of token-level embeddings and efficiently finds passages that contextually match the query using scalable vector-similarity
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(MaxSim) operators. The model uses an [XMOD](https://huggingface.co/facebook/xmod-base) backbone,
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which allows it to learn from monolingual fine-tuning in a high-resource language, like English, and perform zero-shot retrieval across multiple languages.
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## Usage
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