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bge-code

Available as managed deployment Embeddings BAAI Embeddings 1 variants 5k dl/mo

bge-code is an open-weight embedding model from BAAI. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

MakerBAAI
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Parameters (lead)1.5B
Context32k tokens
Runs withsentence-transformers
Released2025-05-15
Popularity5k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What bge-code is

For more details please refer to our Github: FlagEmbedding.

BGE-Code-v1 is an LLM-based code embedding model that supports code retrieval, text retrieval, and multilingual retrieval. It primarily demonstrates the following capabilities:

  • Superior Code Retrieval Performance: The model demonstrates exceptional code retrieval capabilities, supporting natural language queries in both English and Chinese, as well as 20 programming languages.
  • Robust Text Retrieval Capabilities: The model maintains strong text retrieval capabilities comparable to text embedding models of similar scale.
  • Extensive Multilingual Support: BGE-Code-v1 offers comprehensive multilingual retrieval capabilities, excelling in languages such as English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and more.

Usage

Using FlagEmbedding

git clone https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding.git
cd FlagEmbedding
pip install -e .
from FlagEmbedding import FlagLLMModel
queries = [
    "Delete the record with ID 4 from the 'Staff' table.",
    'Delete all records in the "Livestock" table where age is greater than 5'
]
documents = [
    "DELETE FROM Staff WHERE StaffID = 4;",
    "DELETE FROM Livestock WHERE age > 5;"
]
model = FlagLLMModel('BAAI/bge-code-v1',
                     query_instruction_format="{}\n{}",
                     query_instruction_for_retrieval="Given a question in text, retrieve SQL queries that are appropriate responses to the question.",
                     trust_remote_code=True,
                     use_fp16=True) # Setting use_fp16 to True speeds up computation with a slight performance degradation
embeddings_1 = model.encode_queries(queries)
embeddings_2 = model.encode_corpus(documents)
similarity = embeddings_1 @ embeddings_2.T
print(similarity)

By default, FlagLLMModel will use all available GPUs when encoding. Please set os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] to select specific GPUs. You also can set os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"]="" to make all GPUs unavailable.

Using Sentence Transformers

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
import torch

# Load the model, optionally in float16 precision for faster inference
model = SentenceTransformer(
    "BAAI/bge-code-v1",
    trust_remote_code=True,
    model_kwargs={"torch_dtype": torch.float16},
)

# Prepare a prompt given an instruction
instruction = 'Given a question in text, retrieve SQL queries that are appropriate responses to the question.'
prompt = f'{instruction}\n'
# Prepare queries and documents
queries = [
    "Delete the record with ID 4 from the 'Staff' table.",
    'Delete all records in the "Livestock" table where age is greater than 5'
]
documents = [
    "DELETE FROM Staff WHERE StaffID = 4;",
    "DELETE FROM Livestock WHERE age > 5;"
]

# Compute the query and document embeddings
query_embeddings = model.encode(queries, prompt=prompt)
document_embeddings = model.encode(documents)

# Compute the cosine similarity between the query and document embeddings
similarities = model.similarity(query_embeddings, document_embeddings)
print(similarities)

Using HuggingFace Transformers

import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F

from torch import Tensor
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel

def last_token_pool(last_hidden_states: Tensor,
                 attention_mask: Tensor) -> Tensor:
    left_padding = (attention_mask[:, -1].sum() == attention_mask.shape[0])
    if left_padding:
        return last_hidden_states[:, -1]
    else:
        sequence_lengths = attention_mask.sum(dim=1) - 1
        batch_size = last_hidden_states.shape[0]
        return last_hidden_states[torch.arange(batch_size, device=last_hidden_states.device), sequence_lengths]

def get_detailed_instruct(task_description: str, query: str) -> str:
    return f'{task_description}\n{query}'

instruction = 'Given a question in text, retrieve SQL queries that are appropriate responses to the question.'
queries = [
    "Delete the record with ID 4 from the 'Staff' table.",
    'Delete all records in the "Livestock" table where age is greater than 5'
]
documents = [
    "DELETE FROM Staff WHERE StaffID = 4;",
    "DELETE FROM Livestock WHERE age > 5;"
]
input_texts = queries + documents

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('BAAI/bge-code-v1', trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('BAAI/bge-code-v1', trust_remote_code=True)
model.eval()

max_length = 4096
# Tokenize the input texts
batch_dict = tokenizer(input_texts, max_length=max_length, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt', pad_to_multiple_of=8)

with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = model(**batch_dict)
    embeddings = last_token_pool(outputs.last_hidden_state, batch_dict['attention_mask'])

# normalize embeddings
embeddings = F.normalize(embeddings, p=2, dim=1)
scores = (embeddings[:2] @ embeddings[2:].T) * 100
print(scores.tolist())

Evaluation

BGE-Code-v1 achieves state-of-the-art performance on both the CoIR and CodeRAG benchmarks.

  • CoIR
CodeXEmbed-2BCodeXEmbed-7BVoyage-Code-002Voyage-Code-003BGE-Code-v1
Apps76.8685.3826.5293.6298.08
CosQA40.4742.4729.7934.4546.72
Text2SQL78.4278.9469.2662.8764.35
CSN87.8789.6781.7989.3589.53
CSN-CCR97.6697.9573.4590.0598.30
CodeTrans-Contest90.30

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys bge-code for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (bge-code below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"bge-code","input":"text to embed"}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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