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    <lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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      <title>Transformers 5.19.0 adds the EmbeddingGemma2 multimodal embedding model</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>On October 6, 2026 Hugging Face published version 5.19.0 of its Transformers library on GitHub. The release notes add support for EmbeddingGemma2, which the notes describe as a multimodal embedding model from Google built on the Gemma 4 architecture that encodes text, images, audio, and video into a shared 768-dimensional vector space and uses Matryoshka Representation Learning so embeddings can be truncated to 512, 256, or 128 dimensions. The notes also list breaking changes: every mixture-of-experts model that computes router logits now returns them when output_router_logits=True, the &quot;paged|&quot; prefix for SDPA and flash attention implementations is deprecated in favor of continuous batching on the regular functions, and Owlv2ForObjectDetection.embed_image_query now selects the query box by objectness score. EmbeddingGemma2 itself is a Google model and is not a separate catalog entry; USASI has not tested these changes.</description>
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