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gtr-t5-large

Embeddings sentence-transformers Embeddings 1 build Open weights 56k dl/mo

gtr-t5-large is an open-weight embedding model from sentence-transformers. gtr-t5-large (FP16) weighs 670 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • gtr-t5-large is a sentence-transformers model designed for semantic search and sentence-similarity tasks.
  • It maps English text to a 768-dimensional vector space using the encoder from a T5-large model with 335M parameters.
  • The model supports a context length of 512 tokens and is released under the apache-2.0 licence.

Summary of the sentence-transformers/gtr-t5-large model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bysentence-transformers
Released2022-03-02
Parameters335M
VRAM670 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for gtr-t5-large (FP16)

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 sentence-transformers says about gtr-t5-large

Read the model card

This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768 dimensional dense vector space. The model was specifically trained for the task of sematic search.

This model was converted from the Tensorflow model gtr-large-1 to PyTorch. When using this model, have a look at the publication: Large Dual Encoders Are Generalizable Retrievers. The tfhub model and this PyTorch model can produce slightly different embeddings, however, when run on the same benchmarks, they produce identical results.

The model uses only the encoder from a T5-large model. The weights are stored in FP16.

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/gtr-t5-large')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

The model requires sentence-transformers version 2.2.0 or newer.

Citing & Authors

If you find this model helpful, please cite the respective publication: Large Dual Encoders Are Generalizable Retrievers

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

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