# Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers

DevFeed: [Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/multimodal-embedding-reranker-models-with-sentence-transformers-7361.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/multimodal-sentence-transformers>)

Author: Tom Aarsen

Published: 2026-04-09T00:00:00Z

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>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.md>), [vlm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vlm.md>), [GPU](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gpu.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [embedding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embedding.md>), [gpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [nlp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nlp.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [rag](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rag.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>), [vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vision.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how multimodal embedding and reranker models in Sentence Transformers map text, images, audio, and video into shared spaces or score cross-modal pairs. It covers visual document retrieval, cross-modal search, multimodal RAG, hardware requirements, model loading, and similarity computation.

## Source excerpt

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