---
license: mit
base_model:
- antoinelouis/colbert-xm
language:
- multilingual
- af
- am
- ar
- az
- be
- bg
- bn
- ca
- cs
- cy
- da
- de
- el
- en
- eo
- es
- et
- eu
- fa
- fi
- fr
- ga
- gl
- gu
- ha
- he
- hi
- hr
- hu
- hy
- id
- is
- it
- ja
- ka
- kk
- km
- kn
- ko
- ku
- ky
- la
- lo
- lt
- lv
- mk
- ml
- mn
- mr
- ms
- my
- ne
- nl
- 'no'
- or
- pa
- pl
- ps
- pt
- ro
- ru
- sa
- si
- sk
- sl
- so
- sq
- sr
- sv
- sw
- ta
- te
- th
- tl
- tr
- uk
- ur
- uz
- vi
- zh
---

## `pylate-colbert-xm-german`

A version of the multilingual ColBERT-XM for the `pylate` library, configured for German.
For using one of the many supported languages by the [`xmod-base` backbone](https://huggingface.co/facebook/xmod-base#languages), see `convert_model.py`.

Thanks to [`@ant-louis`](https://github.com/ant-louis) for the [instructions](https://github.com/lightonai/pylate/discussions/50#discussioncomment-10691630).

## Credits

```bibtex
@article{louis2024modular,
  author = {Louis, Antoine and Saxena, Vageesh and van Dijck, Gijs and Spanakis, Gerasimos},
  title = {ColBERT-XM: A Modular Multi-Vector Representation Model for Zero-Shot Multilingual Information Retrieval},
  journal = {CoRR},
  volume = {abs/2402.15059},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15059},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2402.15059},
  eprinttype = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2402.15059},
}

@misc{PyLate,
  title={PyLate: Flexible Training and Retrieval for Late Interaction Models},
  author={Chaffin, Antoine and Sourty, Raphaël},
  url={https://github.com/lightonai/pylate},
  year={2024}
}
```