---
license: apache-2.0
base_model: answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1
pipeline_tag: feature-extraction
library_name: onnx
tags:
- dakera
- ai-agent-memory
- agent-memory
- long-term-memory
- rag
- self-hosted
- mcp
- onnx
- mirror
---

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<h1 align="center">answerai-colbert-small-v1</h1>

<p align="center"><b>Late-interaction (ColBERT) retrieval for Dakera · a verified mirror by Dakera, the self-hosted memory engine for AI agents</b></p>

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> An unmodified, checksum-verified copy of the files [Dakera](https://dakera.ai) uses from [answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1](https://huggingface.co/answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1). The model is by **Answer.AI**; all credit goes to its authors.

## In Dakera

Token-level (ColBERT) vectors for precise retrieval: `DAKERA_MODEL=colbert-small`.

Dakera fetches this late-interaction model from this repository first and from the original repositories if it is unreachable, so installs never depend on a single source. Both are checked against the same SHA-256, and the [Dakera Docker image](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-deploy) ships the default models ready to run, with no download at startup.

## Files

Copied byte for byte from:

| File | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|
| `model_int8.onnx` | [answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1](https://huggingface.co/answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1) | 33.9 MB |
| `tokenizer.json` | [answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1](https://huggingface.co/answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1) | 711.4 kB |

<details>
<summary>SHA-256 checksums</summary>

```text
de45baeaa7a48cda647fcf71582e2a0920dca303654034570aa6144d84526283  model_int8.onnx
d241a60d5e8f04cc1b2b3e9ef7a4921b27bf526d9f6050ab90f9267a1f9e5c66  tokenizer.json
```

</details>

## Licence and credit

Apache-2.0, the same as the original model (see [`LICENSE`](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/answerai-colbert-small-v1/blob/main/LICENSE)). For what the model does, how it was trained and how to cite it, see the [original model card](https://huggingface.co/answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1).

## About Dakera

**[Dakera](https://dakera.ai) is a self-hosted memory engine for AI agents.** It gives agents long-term memory that survives sessions: hybrid vector and full-text retrieval, reranking, entity extraction and importance decay, in a single Rust binary that runs on your own servers, with an MCP server for Claude, Cursor and other agents.

```bash
docker run -p 3000:3000 -e DAKERA_ROOT_API_KEY=dk-mykey ghcr.io/dakera-ai/dakera:latest
```

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