PyTorch Version Impact on ColBERT Index Artifacts

Background I recently released colbert-ai==0.2.22 which removed the deprecated transformers.AdamW import among other changes . I’m now turning my attention to upgrading the PyTorch dependency to 2.x, which will not only introduce compatibility with modern version installations of torch but will also allow the integration of the AnswerAI fastkmeans library as a replacement for the faiss-gpu and…