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snowflake-arctic-embed-l

snowflake-arctic-embed-l is an open-weight embedding model from Snowflake, 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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About

What snowflake-arctic-embed-l is

News - 12/11/2024: Release of Technical Report - 12/04/2024: Release of snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 and snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v2.0 our newest models with multilingual workloads in mind. Models Snowflake arctic-embed-l-v2.0 is the newest addition to the suite of embedding models Snowflake has released optimizing for retrieval performance and inference efficiency. Arctic Embed 2.0 introduces a new standard for multilingual embedding models, combining high-quality multilingual text retrieval without sacrificing performance in English. Released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, Arctic Embed 2.0 is ideal for applications that demand reliable, enterprise-grade multilingual search and retrieval at scale. Key Features: 1. Multilingual without compromise: Excels in English and non-English retrieval, outperforming leading open-source and proprietary models on benchmarks like MTEB Retrieval, CLEF, and MIRACL. 2. Inference efficiency: Its 303m non-embedding parameters inference is fast and efficient for any scale. 3. Compression-friendly: Achieves high-quality retrieval with embeddings as small as 128 bytes/vector using Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) and quantization-aware embedding training. Please note that like our v1.5 model, the MRL for this model is 256 dimensions, and high-quality 128-byte compression is achieved via 4-bit quantization (e.g. using a pq256x4fs fast-scan FAISS index or using the example code published alongside our 1.5 model). 4. Drop-In Replacement: arctic-embed-l-v2.0 builds on BAAI/bge-m3-retromae which allows direct drop-in inference replacement with any form of new libraries, kernels, inference engines etc. 5. Long Context Support: arctic-embed-l-v2.0 builds on BAAI/bge-m3-retromae which can support a context window of up to 8192 via the use of RoPE. Quality Benchmarks Unlike most other open-source models, Arctic-embed-l-v2.0 excels across English (via MTEB Retrieval) and multilingual (via MIRACL and CLEF). You no longer need to support models to empower high-quality English and multilingual retrieval. All numbers mentioned below are the average NDCG@10 across the dataset being discussed. Aside from high-quality retrieval arc

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

Specifications

What it is

MakerSnowflake
TypeEmbedding models
Parameters (lead)568M
Context8,194 tokens
Variants2
Runs withsentence-transformers
Released2024-11-08
Popularity715k downloads / month
Likes251
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
snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0568MBF16~1.3 GBWeights ↗
snowflake-arctic-embed-l334MBF16~0.8 GBWeights ↗

Benchmarks

Reported results

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

TaskDatasetMetricScore
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext)accuracy67.039
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext)f155.181
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext)f1_weighted73.411
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext)ap17.991
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext)ap_weighted17.991
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext)main_score67.039
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)accuracy65.597
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)f160.244
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)f1_weighted68.998
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)ap29.762
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)ap_weighted29.762
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)main_score65.597
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (default)accuracy74.257
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (default)f174.029
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (default)f1_weighted74.029
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (default)ap68.76
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (default)ap_weighted68.76
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (default)main_score74.257
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)accuracy34.946
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)f134.285
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)f1_weighted34.285
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)main_score34.946
RetrievalMTEB ArguAna (default)ndcg_at_133.286
RetrievalMTEB ArguAna (default)ndcg_at_349.051

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys snowflake-arctic-embed-l for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (snowflake-arctic-embed-l 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":"snowflake-arctic-embed-l","input":"text to embed"}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

af ar az be bg bn ca ceb cs cy da de el en

Tags

sentence-transformers onnx safetensors xlm-roberta feature-extraction sentence-similarity mteb arctic snowflake-arctic-embed transformers.js af ar az be

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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