---
tags:
- mteb
- sentence-transformers
- transformers
- multilingual
- sentence-similarity
license: apache-2.0
---

## gte-multilingual-base

The **gte-multilingual-base** model is the latest in the [GTE](https://huggingface.co/collections/Alibaba-NLP/gte-models-6680f0b13f885cb431e6d469) (General Text Embedding) family of models, featuring several key attributes:

- **High Performance**: Achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) results in multilingual retrieval tasks and multi-task representation model evaluations when compared to models of similar size.
- **Training Architecture**: Trained using an encoder-only transformers architecture, resulting in a smaller model size. Unlike previous models based on decode-only LLM architecture (e.g., gte-qwen2-1.5b-instruct), this model has lower hardware requirements for inference, offering a 10x increase in inference speed.
- **Long Context**: Supports text lengths up to **8192** tokens.
- **Multilingual Capability**: Supports over **70** languages.
- **Elastic Dense Embedding**: Support elastic output dense representation while maintaining the effectiveness of downstream tasks, which significantly reduces storage costs and improves execution efficiency.
- **Sparse Vectors**: In addition to dense representations, it can also generate sparse vectors.

## Model Information
- Model Size: 304M
- Embedding Dimension: 768
- Max Input Tokens: 8192

## Requirements
```
transformers>=4.39.2
flash_attn>=2.5.6
```
## Usage