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JaColBERTv2.5

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JaColBERTv2.5 is an open-weight embedding model from answerdotai. JaColBERTv2.5 (FP32) weighs 223 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • JaColBERTv2.5 is a sentence-similarity model developed by answerdotai for Japanese language tasks.
  • It contains 111M parameters and supports a context length of 512 tokens.
  • The model is released under the MIT license.

Summary of the answerdotai/JaColBERTv2.5 model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byanswerdotai
Released2024-07-25
Parameters111M
VRAM223 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for JaColBERTv2.5 (FP32)

223 MBweights, file size
1.1 GBruntime overhead
CardRunsMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What answerdotai says about JaColBERTv2.5

Read the model card

Model weights for the final JaColBERTv2.5 checkpoint, using an entirely overhauled training recipe and trained on just 40% of the data of JaColBERTv2.

This model largely outperforms all previous approaches, including JaColBERTV2 multilingual models such as BGE-M3, on all datasets.

This page will be updated with the full details and the model report in the next few days.

@misc{clavié2024jacolbertv25optimisingmultivectorretrievers,
      title={JaColBERTv2.5: Optimising Multi-Vector Retrievers to Create State-of-the-Art Japanese Retrievers with Constrained Resources},
      author={Benjamin Clavié},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2407.20750},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.IR},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20750},
}

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