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ColPali: A new approach to efficient and intelligent document retrieval ๐
Our latest research paper, "ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models," introduces a groundbreaking approach to large-scale visual document analysis. By leveraging Vision Language Models (VLMs), we have created a new framework for document retrieval that's both powerful and efficient.
Key Insights:
๐ก ColPali combines ColBERT's multi-vector strategy with VLMs' document understanding capabilities
โ๏ธ ColPali is based on PaliGemma-3B (SigLIP, Gemma-2B) + a linear projection layer and is trained to maximize the similarity between the document and the query embeddings
๐ The Vision Document Retrieval benchmark (ViDoRe) is a challenging dataset that spans various industry topics and aims at matching real-life retrieval scenarios
๐ ColPali outperforms existing models on all datasets in ViDoRe (average NDCG@5 of 81.3% vs 67.0% for the best baseline model)
โก ColPali is faster at document embedding compared to traditional PDF parser pipelines, making ColPali viable for industrial use
๐ ColPali is highly interpretable thanks to patch-based similarity maps
Dive deeper into ColPali and explore our resources:
๐ Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.01449
๐ ๏ธ Datasets, model weights, evaluation code, leaderboard, demos: huggingface.co/vidore
Shoutout to my amazing co-authors Manuel Faysse ( @manu ) and Hugues Sibille ( @HugSib ). We are grateful for the invaluable feedback from Bilel Omrani, Gautier Viaud, Celine Hudelot, and Pierre Colombo. This work is sponsored by ILLUIN Technology. โจ
Our latest research paper, "ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models," introduces a groundbreaking approach to large-scale visual document analysis. By leveraging Vision Language Models (VLMs), we have created a new framework for document retrieval that's both powerful and efficient.
Key Insights:
๐ก ColPali combines ColBERT's multi-vector strategy with VLMs' document understanding capabilities
โ๏ธ ColPali is based on PaliGemma-3B (SigLIP, Gemma-2B) + a linear projection layer and is trained to maximize the similarity between the document and the query embeddings
๐ The Vision Document Retrieval benchmark (ViDoRe) is a challenging dataset that spans various industry topics and aims at matching real-life retrieval scenarios
๐ ColPali outperforms existing models on all datasets in ViDoRe (average NDCG@5 of 81.3% vs 67.0% for the best baseline model)
โก ColPali is faster at document embedding compared to traditional PDF parser pipelines, making ColPali viable for industrial use
๐ ColPali is highly interpretable thanks to patch-based similarity maps
Dive deeper into ColPali and explore our resources:
๐ Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.01449
๐ ๏ธ Datasets, model weights, evaluation code, leaderboard, demos: huggingface.co/vidore
Shoutout to my amazing co-authors Manuel Faysse ( @manu ) and Hugues Sibille ( @HugSib ). We are grateful for the invaluable feedback from Bilel Omrani, Gautier Viaud, Celine Hudelot, and Pierre Colombo. This work is sponsored by ILLUIN Technology. โจ