# lightonai/ColBERT-Zero

Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: lightonai/ColBERT-Zero · PyLate

## Facts

- Type: Embedding
- Task: sentence-similarity
- Framework: PyLate
- License: apache-2.0 — Permissive open license: commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted. (https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html)
- Source: https://huggingface.co/lightonai/ColBERT-Zero
- Hosting: hosted (9 files)
- Files: 9 hosted of 20 listed
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- Hosted here: at least 9 listed files; full count and size unknown
- Full repo upstream: 600.2 MB
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- Run-ready: no (Hugging Bay has not certified a run path for this model; hosted bytes are downloadable and hash-checkable only)
- Peer-assisted fallbacks: 0 verified, 0 pending review
- Downloads: 4179
- Stars: 45
- Card completeness: 96%

## Description

External Hugging Face catalog record for lightonai/ColBERT-Zero. Task: sentence similarity. Library: PyLate. Languages: en. Includes 12 model-card evaluation signals. Files we host have a published SHA-256.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: apache-2.0
- Pipeline: sentence-similarity
- Library: PyLate
- Task categories: sentence-similarity
- Languages: en
- Metrics: MaxSim_accuracy@1, MaxSim_accuracy@3, MaxSim_accuracy@5, MaxSim_accuracy@10, MaxSim_precision@1, MaxSim_precision@3, MaxSim_precision@5, MaxSim_precision@10
- Paper ids: 2602.16609, 2402.01613, 1908.10084
- Model-index entries: PyLate
- Evaluation signals: 12 model-card eval results
- File hints: 12 upstream file samples

## Evaluation Signals

- NanoClimateFEVER: Maxsim Accuracy@1 = 0.36 (Py Late Information Retrieval)
- NanoClimateFEVER: Maxsim Accuracy@3 = 0.68 (Py Late Information Retrieval)
- NanoClimateFEVER: Maxsim Accuracy@5 = 0.76 (Py Late Information Retrieval)
- NanoClimateFEVER: Maxsim Accuracy@10 = 0.88 (Py Late Information Retrieval)
- NanoClimateFEVER: Maxsim Precision@1 = 0.36 (Py Late Information Retrieval)
- NanoClimateFEVER: Maxsim Precision@3 = 0.2866666666666666 (Py Late Information Retrieval)
- NanoClimateFEVER: Maxsim Precision@5 = 0.21999999999999997 (Py Late Information Retrieval)
- NanoClimateFEVER: Maxsim Precision@10 = 0.148 (Py Late Information Retrieval)
- NanoDBPedia: Maxsim Accuracy@1 = 0.86 (Py Late Information Retrieval)
- NanoDBPedia: Maxsim Accuracy@3 = 0.94 (Py Late Information Retrieval)

## Referenced Data

- Paper: 2602.16609
- Paper: 2402.01613
- Paper: 1908.10084

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.5 KB)
- 1_Dense/config.json (160 B)
- 1_Dense/model.safetensors (384 KB) LFS
- README.md (150 KB)
- config.json (1.3 KB)
- config_sentence_transformers.json (1.1 KB)
- model.safetensors (568 MB) LFS
- modules.json (216 B)
- sentence_bert_config.json (57 B)
- special_tokens_map.json (581 B)
- tokenizer.json (3.4 MB)
- tokenizer_config.json (21 KB)

## Quality Checklist

- Summary: passed
- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: passed
- License: passed
- Provenance: passed
- File inventory: passed
- Hosted bytes: passed
- Scan result: pending
- Manifest signature: passed

## Safety Notes

- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-10-02T00:20:08.027Z.
- Upstream license: apache-2.0. Mirror admission policy: permissive (owner policy; no license rights inferred).
- Model-index metadata found for PyLate.
- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

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