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jina-embeddings-code

Embeddings jinaai Embeddings 1 build Open weights 404k dl/mo

jina-embeddings-code is an open-weight embedding model from jinaai. jina-embeddings-v2-base-code (FP16) weighs 322 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • jina-embeddings-code is a 161M parameter feature-extraction model by jinaai designed for code search and technical question answering.
  • It supports English and 30 widely used programming languages with an 8192 token context length.
  • The model is released under the apache-2.0 license.

Summary of the jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-code model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byjinaai
Released2023-11-17
Parameters161M
VRAM322 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for jina-embeddings-v2-base-code (FP16)

322 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 jinaai says about jina-embeddings-code

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Quick Start

The easiest way to starting using jina-embeddings-v2-base-code is to use Jina AI's Embedding API.

Intended Usage & Model Info

jina-embeddings-v2-base-code is an multilingual embedding model speaks English and 30 widely used programming languages. Same as other jina-embeddings-v2 series, it supports 8192 sequence length.

jina-embeddings-v2-base-code is based on a Bert architecture (JinaBert) that supports the symmetric bidirectional variant of ALiBi to allow longer sequence length. The backbone jina-bert-v2-base-code is pretrained on the github-code dataset. The model is further trained on Jina AI's collection of more than 150 millions of coding question answer and docstring source code pairs. These pairs were obtained from various domains and were carefully selected through a thorough cleaning process.

The embedding model was trained using 512 sequence length, but extrapolates to 8k sequence length (or even longer) thanks to ALiBi. This makes our model useful for a range of use cases, especially when processing long documents is needed, including technical question answering and code search.

This model has 161 million parameters, which enables fast and memory efficient inference, while delivering impressive performance. Additionally, we provide the following embedding models:

Supported (Programming) Languages

  • English
  • Assembly
  • Batchfile
  • C
  • C#
  • C++
  • CMake
  • CSS
  • Dockerfile
  • FORTRAN
  • GO
  • Haskell
  • HTML
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Julia
  • Lua
  • Makefile
  • Markdown
  • PHP
  • Perl
  • PowerShell
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • SQL
  • Scala
  • Shell
  • TypeScript
  • TeX
  • Visual Basic

Data & Parameters

Jina Embeddings V2 technical report

Usage

Please apply mean pooling when integrating the model.

Why mean pooling?

mean poooling takes all token embeddings from model output and averaging them at sentence/paragraph level. It has been proved to be the most effective way to produce high-quality sentence embeddings. We offer an encode function to deal with this.

However, if you would like to do it without using the default encode function:

import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel

def mean_pooling(model_output, attention_mask):
    token_embeddings = model_output[0]
    input_mask_expanded = attention_mask.unsqueeze(-1).expand(token_embeddings.size()).float()
    return torch.sum(token_embeddings * input_mask_expanded, 1) / torch.clamp(input_mask_expanded.sum(1), min=1e-9)

sentences = [
    'How do I access the index while iterating over a sequence with a for loop?',
    '# Use the built-in enumerator\nfor idx, x in enumerate(xs):\n    print(idx, x)',
]

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-code')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-code', trust_remote_code=True)

encoded_input = tokenizer(sentences, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt')

with torch.no_grad():
    model_output = model(**encoded_input)

embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])
embeddings = F.normalize(embeddings, p=2, dim=1)

You can use Jina Embedding models directly from transformers package:

!pip install transformers
from transformers import AutoModel
from numpy.linalg import norm

cos_sim = lambda a,b: (a @ b.T) / (norm(a)*norm(b))
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-code', trust_remote_code=True)
embeddings = model.encode(
    [
        'How do I access the index while iterating over a sequence with a for loop?',
        '# Use the built-in enumerator\nfor idx, x in enumerate(xs):\n    print(idx, x)',
    ]
)
print(cos_sim(embeddings[0], embeddings[1]))
>>> tensor([[0.7282]])

If you only want to handle shorter sequence, such as 2k, pass the max_length parameter to the encode function:

embeddings = model.encode(
    ['Very long ... code'],
    max_length=2048
)

Using the its latest release (v2.3.0) sentence-transformers also supports Jina embeddings (Please make sure that you are logged into huggingface as well):

!pip install -U sentence-transformers
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
from sentence_transformers.util import cos_sim

model = SentenceTransformer(
    "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-code",
    trust_remote_code=True
)

# control your input sequence length up to 8192
model.max_seq_length = 1024

embeddings = model.encode([
    'How do I access the index while iterating over a sequence with a for loop?',
    '# Use the built-in enumerator\nfor idx, x in enumerate(xs):\n    print(idx, x)',
])
print(cos_sim(embeddings[0], embeddings[1]))

You can also use the Transformers.js library to compute embeddings in JavaScript.

// npm i @xenova/transformers
import { pipeline, cos_sim } from '@xenova/transformers';

const extractor = await pipeline('feature-extraction', 'jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-code', {
    quantized:

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

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