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paraphrase-MiniLM-L12-v2

Name: paraphrase-MiniLM-L12-v2
Author: sentence-transformers

This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 384 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.

Params

30 M

Context

512

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Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS View on Hugging Face ↗

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Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	f32	0.1 GB	0.7 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Specifications

Architecture: BertModel
Parameters: 30 M
Tensor type: F32
Context length: 512
Vocabulary: 30,522
Layers / heads: 12 / 12
Licence: apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub: 2022-03-02
Training datasets: undisclosed
Added to our catalog: 2026-08-06

Compare with

all-MiniLM-L6-v2 257.8 M paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 59.4 M bge-m3 35.0 M all-mpnet-base-v2 25.2 M multilingual-e5-small 15.6 M multilingual-e5-base 7.2 M

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