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Models2026-07-30 · source-backed
arXiv 2607.27178 releases an end-to-end open recipe against the closed-training-data reproducibility gap: 665M curated English contrastive pre-training pairs distilled from 1.4B across 34 public sources, plus 1.88M supervised fine-tuning pairs with mined hard negatives. Two 149M models, DenseOn (single-vector) and LateOn (ColBERT-style late interaction), set new size-class state of the art with models, datasets, and training code released. The multilingual finding is the useful one: after translating to eight languages into 307M mmBERT-based variants, the dense model degrades outside translate-train support while late interaction generalizes to unseen languages and scripts.
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