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MULTIMODAL EMBEDDING & RERANKER MODELS WITH SENTENCE TRANSFORMERS

The v5.4 update of Sentence Transformers introduces multimodal embedding and reranker models that enable encoding and comparing texts, images, audio, and videos within a shared embedding space for tasks like cross-modal search and retrieval-augmented generation. These advanced models map different modalities into a consistent embedding space and assess relevance across mixed-modality pairs, though lower cross-modal similarity scores may occur due to modality clustering. Notably, multimodal rerankers provide high-quality scoring by evaluating individual pairs for more accurate retrieval results.

DARIO SAYS CONTINUAL LEARNING IS SOLVED. IS IT?

Continual learning research is aimed at breaking past the feasible horizon of current techniques. If models can't learn new things while performing tasks, they will struggle when the task horizon grows very long. Context management and other engineering improvements can push task horizons to weeks, or even months, but very long-horizon tasks remain out of reach. Human-level continual learning may be 'solved', but the revolution is not yet complete.

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