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jina-embeddings-de

jina-embeddings-de is an open-weight embedding model from jinaai, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

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What jina-embeddings-de is

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: - jina-embeddings-v2-small-en: 33 million parameters. - jina-embeddings-v2-base-en: 137 million parameters. - jina-embeddings-v2-base-zh: 161 million parameters Chinese-English Bilingual embeddings. - jina-embeddings-v2-base-de: 161 million parameters German-English Bilingual embeddings (you are here). - [jina-embeddings-v2-base-es](): Spanish-English Bilingual embeddings (soon). - jina-embeddings-v2-base-code: 161 million parameters code embeddings. Data & Parameters The data and training details are described in this technical report. Usage <details<summaryPlease apply mean pooling when integrating the model.</summary 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: You can use Jina Embedding models directly f

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makerjinaai
TypeEmbedding models
Parameters (lead)161M
Context8k tokens
Variants1
Runs withsentence-transformers
Released2024-01-12
Popularity37k downloads / month
Likes84
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How embedding models work

Your textsentence / documentEncodermaps meaningVectorlist of numbersAn embedding model turns text into a vector, so similar meanings sit close together — the basis of search and RAG.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
jina-embeddings-v2-base-de161MBF16~0.4 GBWeights ↗

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_125.32
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_1040.351
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_10041.435
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_100041.443
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_335.266
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_537.99
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_125.747
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_1040.515
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_10041.606
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_100041.614
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_335.42

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys jina-embeddings-de for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (jina-embeddings-de below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"jina-embeddings-de","input":"text to embed"}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

de en

Tags

sentence-transformers pytorch onnx safetensors bert fill-mask feature-extraction sentence-similarity mteb transformers transformers.js custom_code de en

Papers

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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