# intfloat/multilingual-e5-small

This model is a multilingual text embedding model with 12 layers and a 384 dimensional embedding size. It supports 100 languages and is trained with query and passage prefixes for retrieval tasks.

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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)
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## Description

This model is a multilingual text embedding model with 12 layers and a 384 dimensional embedding size. It supports 100 languages and is trained with query and passage prefixes for retrieval tasks.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: mit
- Pipeline: sentence-similarity
- Library: sentence-transformers
- Task categories: sentence-similarity
- Languages: multilingual, af, am, ar, as, az, be, bg
- Paper ids: 2402.05672, 2108.08787, 2104.08663, 2210.07316
- Model-index entries: intfloat/multilingual-e5-small
- Evaluation signals: 12 model-card eval results
- File hints: 16 upstream file samples

## Evaluation Signals

- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en): accuracy = 73.79104477611939 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en): ap = 36.9996434842022 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en): f1 = 67.95453679103099 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (de): accuracy = 71.64882226980728 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (de): ap = 82.11942130026586 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (de): f1 = 69.87963421606715 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext): accuracy = 75.8095952023988 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext): ap = 24.46869495579561 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext): f1 = 63.00108480037597 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (ja): accuracy = 64.186295503212 (Classification)

## Referenced Data

- Paper: 2402.05672
- Paper: 2108.08787
- Paper: 2104.08663
- Paper: 2210.07316

## File Hints

- .eval_results/ArguAna.yaml
- .eval_results/BrightAopsRetrieval.yaml
- .eval_results/BrightBiologyLongRetrieval.yaml
- .eval_results/BrightBiologyRetrieval.yaml
- .eval_results/BrightEarthScienceLongRetrieval.yaml
- .eval_results/BrightEarthScienceRetrieval.yaml
- .eval_results/BrightEconomicsLongRetrieval.yaml
- .eval_results/BrightEconomicsRetrieval.yaml
- .eval_results/BrightLeetcodeRetrieval.yaml
- .eval_results/BrightPonyLongRetrieval.yaml
- .eval_results/BrightPonyRetrieval.yaml
- .eval_results/BrightPsychologyLongRetrieval.yaml

## Quality Checklist

- Summary: passed
- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: passed
- License: passed
- Provenance: passed
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- Scan result: passed
- Manifest signature: passed

## Safety Notes

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