Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers

Sentence Transformers v5.4 adds multimodal embedding and reranker support, enabling encoding and comparison of text, images, audio, and video with the same API. The update allows cross-modal similarity and retrieval, demonstrated with Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B.

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With the v5.4 update, you can now encode and compare texts, images, audio, and videos using the same familiar API.
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Announced: 09 Apr 2026 00:00 UTC
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