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bge-large-en

Embeddings BAAI Embeddings 1 build Open weights 13.8M dl/mo

bge-large-en is an open-weight embedding model from BAAI. bge-large-en-v1.5 (FP32) weighs 670 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

bge-large-en-v1.5 is a 335M parameter feature-extraction model developed by BAAI for English text retrieval. It supports a context length of 512 tokens and is released under the MIT license.

Summary of the BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5 model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byBAAI
Released2023-09-12
Parameters335M
VRAM670 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for bge-large-en-v1.5 (FP32)

670 MBweights, file size
1.1 GBruntime overhead
CardRunsMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What BAAI says about bge-large-en

Read the model card

For more details please refer to our Github: FlagEmbedding.

If you are looking for a model that supports more languages, longer texts, and other retrieval methods, you can try using bge-m3.

English | 中文

FlagEmbedding focuses on retrieval-augmented LLMs, consisting of the following projects currently:

News

  • 1/30/2024: Release BGE-M3, a new member to BGE model series! M3 stands for Multi-linguality (100+ languages), Multi-granularities (input length up to 8192), Multi-Functionality (unification of dense, lexical, multi-vec/colbert retrieval). It is the first embedding model that supports all three retrieval methods, achieving new SOTA on multi-lingual (MIRACL) and cross-lingual (MKQA) benchmarks. Technical Report and Code. :fire:

  • 1/9/2024: Release Activation-Beacon, an effective, efficient, compatible, and low-cost (training) method to extend the context length of LLM. Technical Report :fire:

  • 12/24/2023: Release LLaRA, a LLaMA-7B based dense retriever, leading to state-of-the-art performances on MS MARCO and BEIR. Model and code will be open-sourced. Please stay tuned. Technical Report :fire:

  • 11/23/2023: Release LM-Cocktail, a method to maintain general capabilities during fine-tuning by merging multiple language models. Technical Report :fire:

  • 10/12/2023: Release LLM-Embedder, a unified embedding model to support diverse retrieval augmentation needs for LLMs. Technical Report

  • 09/15/2023: The technical report and massive training data of BGE has been released

  • 09/12/2023: New models:

    • New reranker model: release cross-encoder models BAAI/bge-reranker-base and BAAI/bge-reranker-large, which are more powerful than embedding model. We recommend to use/fine-tune them to re-rank top-k documents returned by embedding models.
    • update embedding model: release bge-*-v1.5 embedding model to alleviate the issue of the similarity distribution, and enhance its retrieval ability without instruction.
  • 09/07/2023: Update fine-tune code: Add script to mine hard negatives and support adding instruction during fine-tuning.

  • 08/09/2023: BGE Models are integrated into Langchain, you can use it like this; C-MTEB leaderboard is available.

  • 08/05/2023: Release base-scale and small-scale models, best performance among the models of the same size 🤗

  • 08/02/2023: Release bge-large-*(short for BAAI General Embedding) Models, rank 1st on MTEB and C-MTEB benchmark! :tada: :tada:

  • 08/01/2023: We release the Chinese Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (C-MTEB), consisting of 31 test dataset.

Model List

bge is short for BAAI general embedding.

ModelLanguageDescriptionquery instruction for retrieval [1]
BAAI/bge-m3MultilingualInference Fine-tuneMulti-Functionality(dense retrieval, sparse retrieval, multi-vector(colbert)), Multi-Linguality, and Multi-Granularity(8192 tokens)
BAAI/llm-embedderEnglishInference Fine-tunea unified embedding model to support diverse retrieval augmentation needs for LLMsSee README
BAAI/bge-reranker-largeChinese and EnglishInference Fine-tunea cross-encoder model which is more accurate but less efficient [2]
BAAI/bge-reranker-baseChinese and EnglishInference Fine-tunea cross-encoder model which is more accurate but less efficient [2]
[BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5](https:

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card: the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)accuracy75.851
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)ap38.566
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)f169.694
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationaccuracy92.417
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationap89.193
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationf192.395
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)accuracy48.176
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)f147.807
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_140.185
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_1055.654
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_10056.250
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_100056.255
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_351.743
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_554.129
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_140.967
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_1055.960
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_10056.549
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_100056.554
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_351.980
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_554.440
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_140.185
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_1063.542
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_10065.965
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_100066.087
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