Multi-modal RAG with ColQwen in a single line of Code
Hi HN, we're Arnav and Adi, and we're building DataBridge - a multi-modal database built from the ground up with AI use cases in mind. We recently launched support for ColPali-style image embeddings and late-interaction retrieval. We've implemented a hamming distance version of retrieval which helps this approach scale significantly more when compared with the regular late-interaction similarity scoring. These embeddings provide a significantly better retrieval accuracy, with ColQwen achieving around an 89% average score on the ViDoRe benchmark, compared to around 67% for traditional parsing…
Multi-modal RAG with ColQwen in a single line of Code launched on February 28, 2025 with 5 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
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Open-source multimodal retrieval engine (Morphik Core). By Morphik — AI back office for skilled nursing & senior living (morphik.ai). - morphik-core/examples/colpali.py at main · morphik-org/morphik-core
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN, we're Arnav and Adi, and we're building DataBridge - a multi-modal database built from the ground up with AI use cases in mind. We recently launched support for ColPali-style image embeddings and late-interaction retrieval. We've implemented a hamming distance version of retrieval which helps this approach…
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