ARC8_Encoder_Llama

This page houses ARC8-Encoder_Llama from three different versions of pretrained ARC-Encoders. Architectures and methods to train them are described in the paper ARC-Encoder: learning compressed text representations for large language models available here. Code: ARC-Encoder repository

Models Details

All the encoders released here are trained on web crawl filtered using Dactory based on a Llama3.2-3B base backbone. It consists in two ARC-Encoder specifically trained for one decoder and one for two decoders in the same time:

• ARC8-Encoder_Llama, trained on 2.6B tokens on Llama3.1-8B base specifically with a pooling factor of 8.
• ARC8-Encoder_Mistral, trained on 2.6B tokens on Mistral-7B base specifically with a pooling factor of 8.
• ARC8-Encoder_multi, trained by sampling among the two decoders with a pooling factor of 8.

Uses

As described in the paper, the pretrained ARC-Encoders can be fine-tuned to perform various downstream tasks. You can also adapt an ARC-Encoder to a new pooling factor (PF) by fine-tuning it on the desired PF. For optimal results, we recommend fine-tuning toward a lower PF than the one used during pretraining. To reproduce the results presented in the paper, you can use our released fine-tuning dataset, ARC_finetuning.

Licensing

ARC-Encoders are licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 license.

Terms of use: As the released models are pretrained from Llama3.2 3B backbone, ARC-Encoders are subject to the Llama Terms of Use found at Llama license.

Usage

To load the pre-trained ARC-Encoders, use the following code snippet from the ARC-Encoder repository:

from embed_llm.models.augmented_model import load_and_save_released_models

# ARC8_Encoder_multi, ARC8_Encoder_Llama or ARC8_Encoder_Mistral
load_and_save_released_models(ARC8_Encoder_Llama, hf_token=)

Remark: This code snippet loads the model from Hugging Face and then creates appropriate folders at `` containing the checkpoint and additional necessary files for fine-tuning or evaluation with the ARC-Encoder codebase. To reduce occupied memory space, you can then delete the model from your Hugging Face cache.

Citations

If you use one of these models, please cite:

@article{
pilchen2026arcencoder,
title={{ARC}-Encoder: learning compressed text representations for large language models},
author={Hippolyte Pilchen and Edouard Grave and Patrick Perez},
journal={Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
issn={2835-8856},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=lU1P9dsqfn},
note={Featured Certification}
}