embeddinggemma

Model Page: EmbeddingGemma

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• Responsible Generative AI Toolkit
• EmbeddingGemma on Vertex Model Garden

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Authors: Google DeepMind

Model Information

Description

EmbeddingGemma is a 300M parameter, state-of-the-art for its size, open embedding model from Google, built from Gemma 3 (with T5Gemma initialization) and the same research and technology used to create Gemini models. EmbeddingGemma produces vector representations of text, making it well-suited for search and retrieval tasks, including classification, clustering, and semantic similarity search. This model was trained with data in 100+ spoken languages.

The small size and on-device focus makes it possible to deploy in environments with limited resources such as mobile phones, laptops, or desktops, democratizing access to state of the art AI models and helping foster innovation for everyone.

For more technical details, refer to our paper: EmbeddingGemma: Powerful and Lightweight Text Representations.

Inputs and outputs

• Input:

  • Text string, such as a question, a prompt, or a document to be embedded
  • Maximum input context length of 2048 tokens

• Output:

  • Numerical vector representations of input text data
  • Output embedding dimension size of 768, with smaller options available (512, 256, or 128) via Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL). MRL allows users to truncate the output embedding of size 768 to their desired size and then re-normalize for efficient and accurate representation.

Citation

@article{embedding_gemma_2025,
    title={EmbeddingGemma: Powerful and Lightweight Text Representations},
    author={Schechter Vera, Henrique* and Dua, Sahil* and Zhang, Biao and Salz, Daniel and Mullins, Ryan and Raghuram Panyam, Sindhu and Smoot, Sara and Naim, Iftekhar and Zou, Joe and Chen, Feiyang and Cer, Daniel and Lisak, Alice and Choi, Min and Gonzalez, Lucas and Sanseviero, Omar and Cameron, Glenn and Ballantyne, Ian and Black, Kat and Chen, Kaifeng and Wang, Weiyi and Li, Zhe and Martins, Gus and Lee, Jinhyuk and Sherwood, Mark and Ji, Juyeong and Wu, Renjie and Zheng, Jingxiao and Singh, Jyotinder and Sharma, Abheesht and Sreepat, Divya and Jain, Aashi and Elarabawy, Adham and Co, AJ and Doumanoglou, Andreas and Samari, Babak and Hora, Ben and Potetz, Brian and Kim, Dahun and Alfonseca, Enrique and Moiseev, Fedor and Han, Feng and Palma Gomez, Frank and Hernández Ábrego, Gustavo and Zhang, Hesen and Hui, Hui and Han, Jay and Gill, Karan and Chen, Ke and Chen, Koert and Shanbhogue, Madhuri and Boratko, Michael and Suganthan, Paul and Duddu, Sai Meher Karthik and Mariserla, Sandeep and Ariafar, Setareh and Zhang, Shanfeng and Zhang, Shijie and Baumgartner, Simon and Goenka, Sonam and Qiu, Steve and Dabral, Tanmaya and Walker, Trevor and Rao, Vikram and Khawaja, Waleed and Zhou, Wenlei and Ren, Xiaoqi and Xia, Ye and Chen, Yichang and Chen, Yi-Ting and Dong, Zhe and Ding, Zhongli and Visin, Francesco and Liu, Gaël and Zhang, Jiageng and Kenealy, Kathleen and Casbon, Michelle and Kumar, Ravin and Mesnard, Thomas and Gleicher, Zach and Brick, Cormac and Lacombe, Olivier and Roberts, Adam and Sung, Yunhsuan and Hoffmann, Raphael and Warkentin, Tris and Joulin, Armand and Duerig, Tom and Seyedhosseini, Mojtaba},
    publisher={Google DeepMind},
    year={2025},
    url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20354}
}

Usage

These model weights are designed to be used with Sentence Transformers, using the Gemma 3 implementation from Hugging Face Transformers as the backbone.

First install the Sentence Transformers library:

pip install -U sentence-transformers

Then you can load this model and run inference.

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SentenceTransformer("google/embeddinggemma-300m")

# Run inference with queries and documents
query = "Which planet is known as the Red Planet?"
documents = [
    "Venus is often called Earth's twin because of its similar size and proximity.",
    "Mars, known for its reddish appearance, is often referred to as the Red Planet.",
    "Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has a prominent red spot.",
    "Saturn, famous for its rings, is sometimes mistaken for the Red Planet."
]
query_embeddings = model.encode_query(query)
document_embeddings = model.encode_document(documents)
print(query_embeddings.shape, document_embeddings.shape)
# (768,) (4, 768)

# Compute similarities to determine a ranking
similarities = model.similarity(query_embeddings, document_embeddings)
print(similarities)
# tensor([[0.3011, 0.6359, 0.4930, 0.4889]])

NOTE: EmbeddingGemma activations do not support float16. Please use float32 or bfloat16 as appropriate for your hardware.

Model Data

Training Dataset

This model was trained on a dataset of text data that includes a wide variety of sources totaling approximately 320 billion tokens. Here are the key components:

• Web Documents: A diverse collection of web text ensures the model is exposed to a broad range of linguistic styles, topics, and vocabulary. The training dataset includes content in over 100 languages.
• Code and Technical Documents: Exposing the model to code and technical documentation helps it learn the structure and patterns of programming languages and specialized scientific content, which improves its understanding o