# Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers

DevFeed: [Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/training-and-finetuning-multi-vector-embedding-models-with-sentence-transformers-7526.md>)

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

Author: Tom Aarsen

Published: 2026-08-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

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

Topics: [sentence-transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sentence-transformers.md>), [AI search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-search.md>), [AI, ML & Data Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-ml-data-engineering.md>)

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

## AI overview

A tutorial on finetuning multi-vector embedding models with Sentence Transformers. It explains late-interaction token-level retrieval, training components, and domain-specific retrieval improvements.

## Source excerpt

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