bge-small-en-v1.5
If you are looking for a model that supports more languages, longer texts, and other retrieval methods, you can try using bge-m3.
Params
30 M
Context
512
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Can you run it?
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
- mit
- First seen on the Hub
- 2023-09-12
- Training datasets
- undisclosed
- MTEB ArguAna (reported)
- 72.191
- MTEB BIOSSES (reported)
- 83.892272988134
- MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P (reported)
- 47.402770198164
- MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S (reported)
- 40.015454369742
- MTEB BiorxivClusteringP2P (reported)
- 38.467181385006
- MTEB BiorxivClusteringS2S (reported)
- 34.719496037339
- MTEB AskUbuntuDupQuestions (reported)
- 74.421690190388
- MTEB Banking77Classification (reported)
- 85.714935664664
- MTEB CQADupstackAndroidRetrieval (reported)
- 29.587
- MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported)
- 92.738840013315
- MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported)
- 46.559367867279
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported)
- 68.091494561709
- Added to our catalog
- 2026-07-28
Family
Base model and the most-downloaded derivatives in the catalog.
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