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codet5p-bimodal

Embeddings Salesforce Embeddings 1 build Open weights 3k dl/mo

codet5p-bimodal is an open-weight embedding model from Salesforce. codet5p-220m-bimodal (BF16) weighs 892 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • Codet5p-bimodal is a 220M parameter encoder-decoder model developed by Salesforce for feature extraction tasks.
  • It supports a context length of 512 tokens and was trained on code data in nine languages, including Python, Java, and C++.
  • The model is released under the bsd-3-clause license.

Summary of the Salesforce/codet5p-220m-bimodal model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bySalesforce
Released2023-07-19
VRAM892 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for codet5p-220m-bimodal (BF16)

892 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 Salesforce says about codet5p-bimodal

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Model description

CodeT5+ is a new family of open code large language models with an encoder-decoder architecture that can flexibly operate in different modes (i.e. encoder-only, decoder-only, and encoder-decoder) to support a wide range of code understanding and generation tasks. It is introduced in the paper:

CodeT5+: Open Code Large Language Models for Code Understanding and Generation by Yue Wang*, Hung Le*, Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare, Nghi D.Q. Bui, Junnan Li, Steven C.H. Hoi (* indicates equal contribution).

Compared to the original CodeT5 family (base: 220M, large: 770M), CodeT5+ is pretrained with a diverse set of pretraining tasks including span denoising, causal language modeling, contrastive learning, and text-code matching to learn rich representations from both unimodal code data and bimodal code-text data. Additionally, it employs a simple yet effective compute-efficient pretraining method to initialize the model components with frozen off-the-shelf LLMs such as CodeGen to efficiently scale up the model (i.e. 2B, 6B, 16B), and adopts a "shallow encoder and deep decoder" architecture. Furthermore, it is instruction-tuned to align with natural language instructions (see our InstructCodeT5+ 16B) following Code Alpaca.

How to use

This model can be easily loaded using the AutoModel functionality and employs the CodeT5 tokenizer with three special tokens added ([ENC], [TDEC], [CDEC]). This checkpoint consists of a CodeT5+ 220M model and a projection layer and an itm_head layer for text-code matching.

from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

checkpoint = "Salesforce/codet5p-220m-bimodal"
device = "cuda"  # for GPU usage or "cpu" for CPU usage

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(checkpoint, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(checkpoint, trust_remote_code=True).to(device)

Pretraining data

This checkpoint is trained on the stricter permissive subset of the deduplicated version of the github-code dataset. The data is preprocessed by reserving only permissively licensed code ("mit" “apache-2”, “bsd-3-clause”, “bsd-2-clause”, “cc0-1.0”, “unlicense”, “isc”). Supported languages (9 in total) are as follows: c, c++, c-sharp, go, java, javascript, php, python, ruby.

Training procedure

This checkpoint is first trained on the unimodal code data at the first-stage pretraining and then on bimodal text-code pair data using the proposed mixture of pretraining tasks. Please refer to the paper for more details.

Evaluation results

Please refer to the paper and the official GitHub repo for more details.

BibTeX entry and citation info

@article{wang2023codet5plus,
  title={CodeT5+: Open Code Large Language Models for Code Understanding and Generation},
  author={Wang, Yue and Le, Hung and Gotmare, Akhilesh Deepak and Bui, Nghi D.Q. and Li, Junnan and Hoi, Steven C. H.},
  journal={arXiv preprint},
  year={2023}
}

Ethical Considerations

This release is for research purposes only in support of an academic paper. Our models, datasets, and code are not specifically designed or evaluated for all downstream purposes. We strongly recommend users evaluate and address potential concerns related to accuracy, safety, and fairness before deploying this model. We encourage users to consider the common limitations of AI, comply with applicable laws, and leverage best practices when selecting use cases, particularly for high-risk scenarios where errors or misuse could significantly impact people’s lives, rights, or safety. For further guidance on use cases, refer to our AUP and AI AUP.

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