Model reference · open weights
e5-sts-en-de is an open-weight embedding model from danielheinz. 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
| Released by | danielheinz |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Task | Embeddings |
| Parameters (lead) | 278M |
| Context | 514 tokens |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2023-12-21 |
| Popularity | 52k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
INFO: The model is being continuously updated.
The model is a multilingual-e5-base model fine-tuned with the task of semantic textual similarity in mind.
The model has been fine-tuned on the German subsets of the following datasets:
The training procedure can be divided into two stages:
The model achieves the following results:
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Benchmarks
As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| semantic textual similarity | stsb_multi_mt | spearmanr | 0.904 |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys e5-sts-en-de for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (e5-sts-en-de 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":"e5-sts-en-de","input":"text to embed"}'
Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.