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snowflake-arctic-embed-s

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Params

30 M

Context

512

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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: 2024-04-12
Training datasets: undisclosed
MTEB ArguAna (reported): 71.053
MTEB BIOSSES (reported): 86.674264088532
MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P (reported): 44.943530250391
MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S (reported): 35.870836103029
MTEB BigPatentClustering (reported): 19.147523589859
MTEB BiorxivClusteringP2P (reported): 35.683698641243
MTEB BiorxivClusteringS2S (reported): 30.474958792951
MTEB AskUbuntuDupQuestions (reported): 73.844809391901
MTEB Banking77Classification (reported): 78.283289016139
MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported): 78.639680440295
MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported): 37.140269688533
MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported): 64.862147915915
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

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