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multilingual-e5-large-instruct

Hugging Face: intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct · checked 2026-10-13

Dependable 560M multilingual embedder.

Datasheet

Maker
Microsoft (intfloat)
Parameters
560 MVerifiedsafetensors.total from the HF API Source
Licence
MITVerified
Access
Public download
Task (HF pipeline)
feature-extraction
First published on HF
2024-02-08
Last updated on HF
2025-07-10
Weights in memory
1.1 GB at 16-bit · 0.3 GB at ~4.85 bitsEstimateParameters × bits ÷ 8. Excludes context cache and runtime overhead; not every model has a 4-bit build.

Benchmark

63.22
MMTEB (multilingual) mean task score; rerankers: MTEB-R · #3 of 4 scored in this category

Row in the Qwen3-Embedding card table (taken from the MTEB leaderboard, 2025-05-24). Source

The description summarises the model card at https://huggingface.co/intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct. Parameters and licence are read from the Hugging Face API; the weights-in-memory line is our arithmetic, not a measurement.