[Feature Request]: Reducing tensor storage overhead through token pooling for any ColBERT-like late interaction models

[yingfeng]

Is there an existing issue for the same feature request?

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Describe the feature you'd like

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14683

Reducing the Footprint of Multi-Vector Retrieval with Minimal Performance Impact via Token Pooling

Token pooling and binary quantization are orthogonal

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[yingfeng]

Another token pooling strategy:
https://www.answer.ai/posts/colbert-pooling.html