2/joint side work by Antoine&Vageesh: ColBERT-XM 🌍 A modular retriever for 81+ languages 🧩

Built w/XMOD encoders & ColBERT’s backbone, it trains on English and transfers zero-shot to other languages💡✨

📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2402.15059
🤗 huggingface.co/antoinelouis/dpr-xm

#IR #MultilingualIR #NLP