ColPali

Community · 2024 · Retrieval · Open-source/community

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A · App: No
B · Built By: Community
C · CEO & Politics: [UNKNOWN]
D · Date: 2024
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: Open-source/community
K · Key Staffers: Manuel Faysse (Co-lead author), Hugues Sibille (Co-lead author), Tony Wu (Co-lead author), Pierre Colombo (Senior author)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Retrieval
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, MIT license)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: ColPali, a visual document retriever that feeds PaliGemma-3B's image-patch outputs through a linear projection to build ColBERT-style multi-vector embeddings of document pages, so retrieval works directly on page images, covering text plus layout and charts, without OCR or layout-recognition pipelines; the repository also has later ColVision and bi-encoder retrievers.
S · Stock / Status: Research / open-source project
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: [UNKNOWN]
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Retrieval from Community, released 2024.

Data completeness 77% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“ColPali.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/colpali.html