---
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 

Get Dense Embeddings with Transformers
```
# Requires transformers>=4.36.0

import torch.nn.functional as F
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

input_texts = [
    "what is the capital of China?",
    "how to implement quick sort in python?",
    "北京",
    "快排算法介绍"
]

model_path = 'Alibaba-NLP/gte-multilingual-base'
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_path)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_path, trust_remote_code=True)

# Tokenize the input texts
batch_dict = tokenizer(input_texts, max_length=8192, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt')

outputs = model(**batch_dict)

dimension=768 # The output dimension of the output embedding, should be in [128, 768]
embeddings = outputs.last_hidden_state[:, 0][:dimension]

embeddings = F.normalize(embeddings, p=2, dim=1)
scores = (embeddings[:1] @ embeddings[1:].T) * 100
print(scores.tolist())
```

Use with sentence-transformers
```
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
from sentence_transformers.util import cos_sim

input_texts = [
    "what is the capital of China?",
    "how to implement quick sort in python?",
    "北京",
    "快排算法介绍"
]

model = SentenceTransformer('Alibaba-NLP/gte-multilingual-base', trust_remote_code=True)
embeddings = model.encode(input_texts)
```

Use with custom code to get dense embeddigns and sparse token weights
```
# You can find the gte_embeddings.py in https://huggingface.co/Alibaba-NLP/gte-multilingual-base/blob/main/scripts/gte_embedding.py
from gte_embeddings import GTEEmbeddidng

model_path = 'Alibaba-NLP/gte-multilingual-base'
model = GTEEmbeddidng(model_path)
query = "中国的首都在哪儿"

docs = [
    "what is the capital of China?",
    "how to implement quick sort in python?",
    "北京",
    "快排算法介绍"
]

embs = model.encode(docs, return_dense=True,return_sparse=True)
print('dense_embeddings vecs', embs['dense_embeddings'])
print('token_weights', embs['token_weights'])
pairs = [(query, doc) for doc in docs]
dense_scores = model.compute_scores(pairs, dense_weight=1.0, sparse_weight=0.0)
sparse_scores = model.compute_scores(pairs, dense_weight=0.0, sparse_weight=1.0)
hybird_scores = model.compute_scores(pairs, dense_weight=1.0, sparse_weight=0.3)
print('dense_scores', dense_scores)
print('sparse_scores', sparse_scores)
print('hybird_scores', hybird_scores)
```