sentence-transformers / sentence-similarity updated 7 months ago

paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2

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
120 M
Context
512
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Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS 50 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

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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 0.5 GB 1.0 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
120 M
Tensor type
F32
Context length
512
Vocabulary
250,037
Layers / heads
12 / 12
Licence
apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub
2022-03-02
Training datasets
undisclosed
Added to our catalog
2026-07-28

Family

Base model and the most-downloaded derivatives in the catalog.

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