Han Xiao

Background

Han Xiao is the founder and CEO of Jina AI, a company specializing in multimodal AI and neural search. He authored Jina AI’s detailed technical breakdown of ColBERT and late interaction, and led the development of jina-colbert-v1-en with extended 8192-token context.

Articles in This Vault

• What is ColBERT and Late Interaction and Why They Matter in Search

Key Contributions

• jina-colbert-v1-en — ColBERT model supporting 8192-token sequences (vs. 512 original)
• Detailed technical explanation of ColBERT architecture and Late Interaction
• jina-embeddings-v2 family — long-context embedding models

Concepts

• ColBERT
• Late Interaction
• Dense Vector Retrieval
• Multimodal Embeddings