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starse is an open-weight embedding model from BorisTM, 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.
About
StaRSE StaRSE stands for Static Russian Sentence Embeddings. It is a compact Russian sentence embedding model implemented as a Sentence-Transformers StaticEmbedding endpoint. The model is intended for CPU-friendly semantic similarity, clustering, classification features, and retrieval-style first-stage representations when a full Transformer encoder is too expensive to run at high throughput. [!NOTE] StaRSE has 61.51M logical embedding parameters (120,138 × 512), stored as binary sign bits plus one FP32 L2 norm vector. Performance Evaluation is reported on MTEB(rus, v1.1) across 23 tasks. The main score is meantaskmainscore = 51.16. Usage Install Sentence Transformers: Load the model with trustremotecode=True. Citation
Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.
Specifications
| Maker | BorisTM |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Parameters (lead) | 8M |
| Variants | 1 |
| Runs with | sentence-transformers |
| Released | 2026-05-23 |
| Popularity | 556 downloads / month |
| Likes | 4 |
| Licence | Open weights |
How it works
Variants
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.
| Variant | Params | Precision | VRAM | Fits 16 GB | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| starse | 8M | BF16 | ~0 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys starse for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (starse 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":"starse","input":"text to embed"}'
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Licence
Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗
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