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jina-embeddings-de

Embeddings jinaai Embeddings 1 build Open weights 36k dl/mo

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

  • jina-embeddings-de is a bilingual text embedding model developed by jinaai for feature extraction tasks.
  • It supports German and English languages with a context length of 8192 tokens and contains 161 million parameters.
  • The model is based on the JinaBERT architecture and is released under the apache-2.0 licence.

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

What it is

Released byjinaai
Released2024-01-12
Parameters161M
VRAM322 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for jina-embeddings-v2-base-de (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-de

Read the model card

Quick Start

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

Intended Usage & Model Info

jina-embeddings-v2-base-de is a German/English bilingual text embedding model supporting 8192 sequence length. It is based on a BERT architecture (JinaBERT) that supports the symmetric bidirectional variant of ALiBi to allow longer sequence length. We have designed it for high performance in mono-lingual & cross-lingual applications and trained it specifically to support mixed German-English input without bias. Additionally, we provide the following embedding models:

jina-embeddings-v2-base-de ist ein zweisprachiges Text Embedding Modell für Deutsch und Englisch, welches Texteingaben mit einer Länge von bis zu 8192 Token unterstützt. Es basiert auf der adaptierten Bert-Modell-Architektur JinaBERT, welche mithilfe einer symmetrische Variante von ALiBi längere Eingabetexte erlaubt. Wir haben, das Model für hohe Performance in einsprachigen und cross-lingual Anwendungen entwickelt und speziell darauf trainiert, gemischte deutsch-englische Eingaben ohne einen Bias zu kodieren. Des Weiteren stellen wir folgende Embedding-Modelle bereit:

Data & Parameters

The data and training details are described in this 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 is the weather today?', 'What is the current weather like today?']

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-de')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-de', trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)

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
import torch
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-de', trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
embeddings = model.encode(['How is the weather today?', 'Wie ist das Wetter heute?'])
print(cos_sim(embeddings[0], embeddings[1]))

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 ... document'],
    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-de", # switch to en/zh for English or Chinese
    trust_remote_code=True
)

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

embeddings = model.encode([
    'How is the weather today?',
    'Wie ist das Wetter heute?'
])
print(cos_sim(embeddings[0], embeddings[1]))

Alternatives to Using Transformers Package

  1. Managed SaaS: Get started with a free key on Jina AI's Embedding API.
  2. Private and high-performance deployment: Get started by picking from our suite of models and deploy them on AWS Sagemaker.

Benchmark Results

We evaluated our Bilingual model on all German and English evaluation tasks availble on the MTEB benchmark. In addition, we evaluated the models agains a couple of other German, English, and multilingual models on additional German evaluation tasks:

Use Jina Embeddings for RAG

According to the latest blog post from LLamaIndex,

In summary, to achieve the peak performance in both hit rate and MRR, the combination of OpenAI or JinaAI-Base embeddings with the CohereReran

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

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card: the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)accuracy73.761
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)ap35.996
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)f167.504
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (de)accuracy68.919
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (de)ap79.733
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (de)f166.662
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationaccuracy77.522
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationap71.851
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationf177.417
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)accuracy38.498
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)f138.058
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (de)accuracy37.718
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (de)f137.227
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_125.320
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_1040.351
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_10041.435
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_100041.443
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_335.266
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_537.990
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_125.747
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_1040.515
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_10041.606
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_100041.614
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_335.420
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