Support for COLBERT models in RAG #1403

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Originally created by @rjmalagon on GitHub (Jun 29, 2024).

COLBERT models are an alternative to rerank, more complex but less resources needed, and with the correct implementation, maybe higher quality.

As I understand it, has more features than rerank models and needs more consideration to use.

https://huggingface.co/mixedbread-ai/mxbai-colbert-large-v1

I'm already trying to use colbert models similar to rerank models on open-webui. It seems to work, but I have doubt that it is correct to replace rerank with colbert directly.

Perhaps, possibly I am wrong about this, and colbert can be used just like a reranker, but I bring this as a feature request just in case.

Originally created by @rjmalagon on GitHub (Jun 29, 2024). COLBERT models are an alternative to rerank, more complex but less resources needed, and with the correct implementation, maybe higher quality. As I understand it, has more features than rerank models and needs more consideration to use. https://huggingface.co/mixedbread-ai/mxbai-colbert-large-v1 I'm already trying to use colbert models similar to rerank models on open-webui. It seems to work, but I have doubt that it is correct to replace rerank with colbert directly. Perhaps, possibly I am wrong about this, and colbert can be used just like a reranker, but I bring this as a feature request just in case.
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Reference: github-starred/open-webui#1403