- ColBERT Retriever is now available (complementary to the ColBERT ranker).
- Improved default settings for every models.
- Attention mask added to models.
- ColBERT and SparseEmbed pre-trained checkpoints on HuggingFace: raphaelsty/neural-cherche-colbert and raphaelsty/neural-cherche-sparse-embed.
- Improved ranking loss.
- Addition of benchmarks.
Overall, this version makes easier to fine-tune ColBERT, SparseEmbed and Splade and achieve excellent results without default parameters.