# Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers

DevFeed: [Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/multi-vector-late-interaction-embedding-models-with-sentence-transformers-7360.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/multi-vector-encoder>)

Author: Tom Aarsen; Antoine Chaffin; Raphael Sourty

Published: 2026-08-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [sentence-transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sentence-transformers.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [embedding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embedding.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [nlp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nlp.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [retrieval](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retrieval.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [sentence-transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sentence-transformers.md>), [transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transformers.md>), [vector](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vector.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains multi-vector, or late-interaction, embedding models with Sentence Transformers. It covers token-level representations, MaxSim scoring, retrieval over text and page images, integration with search systems, and index-size tradeoffs.

## Source excerpt

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