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jina-embeddings-zh

Embeddings jinaai Embeddings 1 build Open weights 12k dl/mo

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

  • jina-embeddings-zh is a bilingual text embedding model developed by jinaai for feature extraction tasks.
  • It supports 8192 tokens of context and handles both English and Chinese inputs.
  • The model contains 161M parameters and is released under the apache-2.0 licence.

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

What it is

Released byjinaai
Released2024-01-10
Parameters161M
VRAM322 MB for the weights

What it runs on

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

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Quick Start

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

Intended Usage & Model Info

jina-embeddings-v2-base-zh is a Chinese/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 Chinese-English input without bias. Additionally, we provide the following embedding models:

jina-embeddings-v2-base-zh 是支持中英双语的文本向量模型,它支持长达8192字符的文本编码。 该模型的研发基于BERT架构(JinaBERT),JinaBERT是在BERT架构基础上的改进,首次将ALiBi应用到编码器架构中以支持更长的序列。 不同于以往的单语言/多语言向量模型,我们设计双语模型来更好的支持单语言(中搜中)以及跨语言(中搜英)文档检索。 除此之外,我们也提供其它向量模型:

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?', '今天天气怎么样?']

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-zh')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-zh', 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-zh', trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
embeddings = model.encode(['How is the weather today?', '今天天气怎么样?'])
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
)

If you want to use the model together with the sentence-transformers package, make sure that you have installed the latest release and set trust_remote_code=True as well:

!pip install -U sentence-transformers
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
from numpy.linalg import norm

cos_sim = lambda a,b: (a @ b.T) / (norm(a)*norm(b))
model = SentenceTransformer('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-zh', trust_remote_code=True)
embeddings = model.encode(['How is the weather today?', '今天天气怎么样?'])
print(cos_sim(embeddings[0], embeddings[1]))

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-zh", # 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?',
    '今天天气怎么样?'
])
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.

Use Jina Embeddings for RAG

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In summary, to achieve the peak performance in both hit rate and MRR, the combination of OpenAI or JinaAI-Base embeddings with the CohereRerank/bge-reranker-large reranker stands out.

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Benchmarks

Reported results

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

TaskDatasetMetricScore
STSMTEB AFQMCcos_sim_pearson48.514
STSMTEB AFQMCcos_sim_spearman50.593
STSMTEB AFQMCeuclidean_pearson48.750
STSMTEB AFQMCeuclidean_spearman50.510
STSMTEB AFQMCmanhattan_pearson48.787
STSMTEB AFQMCmanhattan_spearman50.587
STSMTEB ATECcos_sim_pearson50.260
STSMTEB ATECcos_sim_spearman51.288
STSMTEB ATECeuclidean_pearson52.703
STSMTEB ATECeuclidean_spearman50.941
STSMTEB ATECmanhattan_pearson52.665
STSMTEB ATECmanhattan_spearman50.922
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (zh)accuracy34.944
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (zh)f134.065
STSMTEB BQcos_sim_pearson65.157
STSMTEB BQcos_sim_spearman66.071
STSMTEB BQeuclidean_pearson60.448
STSMTEB BQeuclidean_spearman61.827
STSMTEB BQmanhattan_pearson60.394
STSMTEB BQmanhattan_spearman61.787
ClusteringMTEB CLSClusteringP2Pv_measure39.967
ClusteringMTEB CLSClusteringS2Sv_measure38.399
RerankingMTEB CMedQAv1map83.637
RerankingMTEB CMedQAv1mrr86.165
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