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BGE M3

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huggingfaceHuggingFace
17.2MDownloads2.8KLikesJan 2024Released8K tokensContextMITLicense4 EntryQuality

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Ollama
ollama run bge-m3
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download bge-m3

Quick specs

Parameters0.57B
Architecturedense
Context8K tokens
Modalityembedding
Min RAM0.2 GB
Rec. RAM1.2 GB (F16)
LicenseMIT
FamilyBGE
✓ RAG

About this model

For more details please refer to our github repo: https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding

  • •Multi-Functionality: It can simultaneously perform the three common retrieval functionalities of embedding model: dense retrieval, multi-vector...
  • •Multi-Linguality: It can support more than 100 working languages
  • •Multi-Granularity: It is able to process inputs of different granularities, spanning from short sentences to long documents of up to 8192 tokens

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Quantization options

VRAM estimates by quant level

No hardware detected — fit column shows raw VRAM estimates

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.2 GB
Low—
Q3_K_S
3
0.3 GB
Low—
NVFP4
4
0.3 GB
Medium—
Q4_K_M
4
0.3 GB
Medium—
Q5_K_M
5
0.4 GB
High—
Q6_K
6
0.5 GB
High—
Q8_0
8
0.6 GB
Very High—
F16
16
1.2 GB
Maximum—

Hardware compatibility

Fit estimates across all hardware

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Computing compatibility...

Memory breakdown

Reference: NVIDIA A10 24GB

Weights0.3 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom2.4 GB