Model reference · open weights
harrier-oss is an open-weight embedding model from microsoft. harrier-oss-v1-0.6b (BF16) weighs 1.2 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the microsoft/harrier-oss-v1-270m model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.
What it is
| Released by | microsoft |
|---|---|
| Released | 2026-03-30 |
| Parameters | 268M |
| VRAM | 1.2 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Runs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
Builds
| Build | Params | Precision | Weights | Smallest setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| harrier-oss-v1-270m ↗ | 268M | BF16 | 536 MB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
| harrier-oss-v1-0.6b (above) ↗ | 596M | BF16 | 1.2 GB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
| harrier-oss-v1-27b ↗ | 27.0B | BF16 | 54.0 GB | H100 80 GB |
From the model card
harrier-oss-v1 is a family of multilingual text embedding models developed by Microsoft. The models use decoder-only architectures with last-token pooling and L2 normalization to produce dense text embeddings. They can be applied to a wide range of tasks, including but not limited to retrieval, clustering, semantic similarity, classification, bitext mining, and reranking. The models achieve state-of-the-art results on the Multilingual MTEB v2 benchmark as of the release date.
| Model | Parameters | Embedding Dimension | Max Tokens | MTEB v2 Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| harrier-oss-v1-270m | 270M | 640 | 32,768 | 66.5 |
| harrier-oss-v1-0.6b | 0.6B | 1,024 | 32,768 | 69.0 |
| harrier-oss-v1-27b | 27B | 5,376 | 32,768 | 74.3 |
All models are trained with contrastive learning objectives on a large-scale mixture of multilingual datasets covering diverse tasks. The 270m and 0.6b variants are additionally trained with knowledge distillation from larger embedding models.
Below is an example to encode queries and passages from the MS-MARCO passage ranking dataset.
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
model = SentenceTransformer("microsoft/harrier-oss-v1-270m", model_kwargs={"dtype": "auto"})
queries = [
"how much protein should a female eat",
"summit define",
]
documents = [
"As a general guideline, the CDC's average requirement of protein for women ages 19 to 70 is 46 grams per day. But, as you can see from this chart, you'll need to increase that if you're expecting or training for a marathon. Check out the chart below to see how much protein you should be eating each day.",
"Definition of summit for English Language Learners. : 1 the highest point of a mountain : the top of a mountain. : 2 the highest level. : 3 a meeting or series of meetings between the leaders of two or more governments."
]
query_embeddings = model.encode(queries, prompt_name="web_search_query")
document_embeddings = model.encode(documents)
scores = (query_embeddings @ document_embeddings.T) * 100
print(scores.tolist())
Have a look at config_sentence_transformers.json for the prompts that are pre-configured, such as web_search_query, sts_query, and bitext_query. You can also use a custom instruction directly via e.g. model.encode(queries, prompt="Instruct: Retrieve semantically similar text\nQuery: ").
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from torch import Tensor
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
def last_token_pool(last_hidden_states: Tensor, attention_mask: Tensor) -> Tensor:
left_padding = (attention_mask[:, -1].sum() == attention_mask.shape[0])
if left_padding:
return last_hidden_states[:, -1]
else:
sequence_lengths = attention_mask.sum(dim=1) - 1
batch_size = last_hidden_states.shape[0]
return last_hidden_states[torch.arange(batch_size, device=last_hidden_states.device), sequence_lengths]
def get_detailed_instruct(task_description: str, query: str) -> str:
return f'Instruct: {task_description}\nQuery: {query}'
# Each query must come with a one-sentence instruction that describes the task
task = 'Given a web search query, retrieve relevant passages that answer the query'
queries = [
get_detailed_instruct(task, 'how much protein should a female eat'),
get_detailed_instruct(task, 'summit define')
]
# No need to add instruction for retrieval documents
documents = [
"As a general guideline, the CDC's average requirement of protein for women ages 19 to 70 is 46 grams per day. But, as you can see from this chart, you'll need to increase that if you're expecting or training for a marathon. Check out the chart below to see how much protein you should be eating each day.",
"Definition of summit for English Language Learners. : 1 the highest point of a mountain : the top of a mountain. : 2 the highest level. : 3 a meeting or series of meetings between the leaders of two or more governments."
]
input_texts = queries + documents
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('microsoft/harrier-oss-v1-270m')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('microsoft/harrier-oss-v1-270m', dtype='auto')
model.eval()
model.cuda()
max_length = 32768
# Tokenize the input texts
batch_dict = tokenizer(input_texts, max_length=max_length, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt')
batch_dict = {k: v.cuda() for k, v in batch_dict.items()}
outputs = model(**batch_dict)
embeddings = last_token_pool(outputs.last_hidden_state, batch_dict['attention_mask'])
# normalize embeddings
embeddings = F.normalize(embeddings, p=2, dim=1)
scores = (embeddings[:2] @ embeddings[2:].T) * 100
print(scores.tolist())
The models are trained on multilingual data and support a wide range of languages, including but not limited to: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Chinese.
Please follow the mteb repository on how to repro
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.