illuin-tech/colpali

• highreadme#1

  Reposition the README's introductory paragraph to clearly state the project's purpose

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  This repository contains the code used for training and running visual document retrievers introduced by the *ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models* paper. It includes the original ColPali model, based on the ColBERT architecture and the PaliGemma model, along with later ColVision and bi-encoder retriever variants.

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  ColPali provides the code for training and running state-of-the-art visual document retrievers, including ColPali, ColQwen2, and ColSmol. These models leverage Vision Language Models (VLMs) to efficiently retrieve documents based on their visual content, significantly enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.

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• highabout#2

  Refine the 'About' description to emphasize visual document retrieval for RAG

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  The code used to train and run inference with the ColVision models, e.g. ColPali, ColQwen2, and ColSmol.

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  Code for ColPali and ColVision models: state-of-the-art visual document retrievers that leverage Vision Language Models (VLMs) for efficient information retrieval in RAG pipelines.

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• mediumtopics#3

  Add more specific topics related to visual search and multimodal AI

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  colpali, colqwen2, colsmol, information-retrieval, retrieval-augmented-generation, vision-language-model

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  colpali, colqwen2, colsmol, information-retrieval, retrieval-augmented-generation, vision-language-model, visual-search, document-retrieval, multimodal-ai

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