cstr/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-GGUF

paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 GGUF

GGUF format of sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 for use with CrispEmbed.

Paraphrase-Multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2. Sentence-transformers paraphrase model with mean-pooled 384-d embeddings across 50+ languages. Same SentencePiece-Unigram vocab as XLM-R but a BERT (post-LN) body.

Files

File	Quantization	Size
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-f16.gguf	F16	414 MB
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-q4_k.gguf	Q4_K	115 MB
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-q5_k.gguf	Q5_K	117 MB
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-q6_k.gguf	Q6_K	123 MB
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-q8_0.gguf	Q8_0	125 MB
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2.gguf	F32	454 MB

Parity vs HuggingFace reference

Cosine similarity vs the upstream sentence-transformers reference on a fixed test set (text):

Quant	Text
f16	1.0000
q8_0	0.9999
q6_k	0.9999
q5_k	0.9979
q4_k	0.9917

Quick Start

# Download
huggingface-cli download cstr/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-GGUF paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-f16.gguf --local-dir .

# Run with CrispEmbed
./crispembed -m paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-f16.gguf "Hello world"

# Or with auto-download
./crispembed -m paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 "Hello world"

Model Details

Property	Value
Architecture	BERT
Parameters	118M
Embedding Dimension	384
Layers	12
Pooling	mean
Tokenizer	SentencePiece
Base Model	sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2

Verification

Verified bit-identical to HuggingFace sentence-transformers (cosine similarity >= 0.999 on test texts).

Usage with CrispEmbed

CrispEmbed is a lightweight C/C++ text embedding inference engine using ggml. No Python runtime, no ONNX. Supports BERT, XLM-R, Qwen3, and Gemma3 architectures.

# Build CrispEmbed
git clone https://github.com/CrispStrobe/CrispEmbed
cd CrispEmbed
cmake -S . -B build && cmake --build build -j

# Encode
./build/crispembed -m paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-f16.gguf "query text"

# Server mode
./build/crispembed-server -m paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-f16.gguf --port 8080
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/v1/embeddings \
    -d '{"input": ["Hello world"], "model": "paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2"}'

Credits

• Original model: sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
• Inference engine: CrispEmbed (ggml-based)
• Conversion: convert-bert-embed-to-gguf.py