README.md

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license: apache-2.0
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# Lightning IR ColBERT

This model is a ColBERT[^1] model fine-tuned using [Lightning IR](https://github.com/webis-de/lightning-ir).

See the [Lightning IR Model Zoo](https://webis-de.github.io/lightning-ir/models.html) for a comparison with other models.

## Reproduction

To reproduce the model training, install Lightning IR and run the following command using the [fine-tune.yaml](./configs/fine-tune.yaml) configuration file:

```bash

lightning-ir fit --config fine-tune.yaml

```

To index MS~MARCO passages, use the following command and the [index.yaml](./configs/index.yaml) configuration file:

```bash

lightning-ir index --config index.yaml

```

After indexing, to evaluate the model on TREC Deep Learning 2019 and 2020, use the following command and the [search.yaml](./configs/search.yaml) configuration file:

```bash

lightning-ir search --config search.yaml

```

[^1]: Khattab and Zaharia, [ColBERT: Efficient and Effective Passage Search via Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3397271.3401075)