# intfloat/e5-small

Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: intfloat/e5-small · sentence transformers

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## Facts

- Type: Embedding
- Task: sentence-similarity
- Framework: sentence-transformers
- License: mit: Permissive open license: commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted. (https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html)
- Source: https://huggingface.co/intfloat/e5-small
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- Downloads: 159650
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- Card completeness: 96%

## Description

External Hugging Face catalog record for intfloat/e5-small. Task: sentence similarity. Library: sentence transformers. Languages: en. Includes 12 model-card evaluation signals. Popularity signal at import: 150,165 downloads and 45 likes.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: mit
- Pipeline: sentence-similarity
- Library: sentence-transformers
- Task categories: sentence-similarity
- Languages: en
- Paper ids: 2212.03533, 2104.08663, 2210.07316
- Model-index entries: e5-small
- Evaluation signals: 12 model-card eval results
- File hints: 13 upstream file samples

## Evaluation Signals

- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en): accuracy = 76.22388059701493 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en): ap = 40.27466219523129 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en): f1 = 70.60533006025108 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification: accuracy = 87.525775 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification: ap = 83.51063993897611 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification: f1 = 87.49342736805572 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en): accuracy = 42.611999999999995 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en): f1 = 42.05088045932892 (Classification)
- MTEB ArguAna: map_at_1 = 23.826 (Retrieval)
- MTEB ArguAna: map_at_10 = 38.269 (Retrieval)

## Referenced Data

- Paper: 2212.03533
- Paper: 2104.08663
- Paper: 2210.07316

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.4 KB)
- 1_Pooling/config.json (200 B)
- README.md (66 KB)
- config.json (641 B)
- model.onnx (127 MB) LFS
- model.safetensors (127 MB) LFS
- modules.json (387 B)
- pytorch_model.bin (127 MB) LFS
- sentence_bert_config.json (57 B)
- special_tokens_map.json (112 B)
- tokenizer.json (455 KB)
- tokenizer_config.json (362 B)

## Quality Checklist

- Summary: passed
- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: passed
- License: passed
- Provenance: passed
- File inventory: passed
- Hosted bytes: passed
- Scan result: passed
- Manifest signature: passed

## Safety Notes

- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-07-29T22:21:27.009Z.
- Open license detected as mit.
- Model-index metadata found for e5-small.
- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

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