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msmarco-distilbert-base-tas-b

This is a port of the DistilBert TAS-B Model to sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768 dimensional dense vector space and is optimized for the task of semantic search.

Params
66 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.

FileQuantSizeEst. VRAMVerdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors f32 0.3 GB 0.8 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
DistilBertModel
Parameters
66 M
Tensor type
F32
Context length
512
Vocabulary
30,522
Licence
apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub
2022-03-02
Training datasets
ms_marco
Added to our catalog
2026-09-19
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