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snowflake-arctic-embed-xs

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Params

20 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	0.6 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: 20 M
Tensor type: F32
Context length: 512
Vocabulary: 30,522
Layers / heads: 6 / 12
First seen on the Hub: 2024-04-12
Training datasets: undisclosed
MTEB ArguAna (reported): 63.585
MTEB BIOSSES (reported): 83.92902081341
MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P (reported): 43.50220588954
MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S (reported): 32.087258261183
MTEB BigPatentClustering (reported): 21.311743732648
MTEB BiorxivClusteringP2P (reported): 34.481973521598
MTEB BiorxivClusteringS2S (reported): 26.140942565673
MTEB AskUbuntuDupQuestions (reported): 73.797761948731
MTEB Banking77Classification (reported): 75.33296834885
MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported): 69.783823339071
MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported): 34.696182519029
MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported): 59.260458011274
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

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