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distiluse-multilingual-cased

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distiluse-multilingual-cased is an open-weight embedding model from sentence-transformers. distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1 (FP32) weighs 269 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • distiluse-multilingual-cased is a sentence-transformers model with 135M parameters designed for sentence-similarity tasks such as clustering and semantic search.
  • It maps text to a 512-dimensional vector space and supports a context length of 512 tokens.
  • The model is multilingual, covering languages including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian, and is released under the apache-2.0 licence.

Summary of the sentence-transformers/distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1 model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bysentence-transformers
Released2022-03-02
Parameters135M
VRAM269 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1 (FP32)

269 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 sentence-transformers says about distiluse-multilingual-cased

Read the model card

This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 512 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.

Usage (Sentence-Transformers)

Using this model becomes easy when you have sentence-transformers installed:

pip install -U sentence-transformers

Then you can use the model like this:

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
sentences = ["This is an example sentence", "Each sentence is converted"]

model = SentenceTransformer('sentence-transformers/distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Full Model Architecture

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 128, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: DistilBertModel
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 768, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False})
  (2): Dense({'in_features': 768, 'out_features': 512, 'bias': True, 'activation_function': 'torch.nn.modules.activation.Tanh'})
)

Citing & Authors

This model was trained by sentence-transformers.

If you find this model helpful, feel free to cite our publication Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks:

@inproceedings{reimers-2019-sentence-bert,
    title = "Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks",
    author = "Reimers, Nils and Gurevych, Iryna",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = "11",
    year = "2019",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10084",
}

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