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UAE-Large

Embeddings WhereIsAI Embeddings 1 build Open weights 1.4M dl/mo

UAE-Large is an open-weight embedding model from WhereIsAI. UAE-Large-V1 (FP32) weighs 670 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • UAE-Large is a 335M parameter feature-extraction model developed by WhereIsAI for generating English sentence embeddings.
  • It supports a context length of 512 tokens and is released under the MIT license.
  • The model is designed for semantic textual similarity tasks and is available for use in both non-retrieval and retrieval scenarios.

Summary of the WhereIsAI/UAE-Large-V1 model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byWhereIsAI
Released2023-12-04
Parameters335M
VRAM670 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for UAE-Large-V1 (FP32)

670 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 WhereIsAI says about UAE-Large

Read the model card

📢 WhereIsAI/UAE-Large-V1 is licensed under MIT. Feel free to use it in any scenario. If you use it for academic papers, you could cite us via 👉 citation info.

Welcome to using AnglE to train and infer powerful sentence embeddings.

🏆 Achievements

  • 📅 May 16, 2024 | AnglE's paper is accepted by ACL 2024 Main Conference
  • 📅 Dec 4, 2023 | 🔥 Our universal English sentence embedding WhereIsAI/UAE-Large-V1 achieves SOTA on the MTEB Leaderboard with an average score of 64.64!

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Siblings:

Usage

1. angle_emb

python -m pip install -U angle-emb
  1. Non-Retrieval Tasks

There is no need to specify any prompts.

from angle_emb import AnglE
from angle_emb.utils import cosine_similarity

angle = AnglE.from_pretrained('WhereIsAI/UAE-Large-V1', pooling_strategy='cls').cuda()
doc_vecs = angle.encode([
    'The weather is great!',
    'The weather is very good!',
    'i am going to bed'
], normalize_embedding=True)

for i, dv1 in enumerate(doc_vecs):
    for dv2 in doc_vecs[i+1:]:
        print(cosine_similarity(dv1, dv2))
  1. Retrieval Tasks

For retrieval purposes, please use the prompt Prompts.C for query (not for document).

from angle_emb import AnglE, Prompts
from angle_emb.utils import cosine_similarity

angle = AnglE.from_pretrained('WhereIsAI/UAE-Large-V1', pooling_strategy='cls').cuda()
qv = angle.encode(Prompts.C.format(text='what is the weather?'))
doc_vecs = angle.encode([
    'The weather is great!',
    'it is rainy today.',
    'i am going to bed'
])

for dv in doc_vecs:
    print(cosine_similarity(qv[0], dv))

2. sentence transformer

from angle_emb import Prompts
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

model = SentenceTransformer("WhereIsAI/UAE-Large-V1").cuda()

qv = model.encode(Prompts.C.format(text='what is the weather?'))
doc_vecs = model.encode([
    'The weather is great!',
    'it is rainy today.',
    'i am going to bed'
])

for dv in doc_vecs:
    print(1 - spatial.distance.cosine(qv, dv))

3. Infinity

Infinity is a MIT licensed server for OpenAI-compatible deployment.

docker run --gpus all -v $PWD/data:/app/.cache -p "7997":"7997" \
michaelf34/infinity:latest \
v2 --model-id WhereIsAI/UAE-Large-V1 --revision "369c368f70f16a613f19f5598d4f12d9f44235d4" --dtype float16 --batch-size 32 --device cuda --engine torch --port 7997

Citation

@article{li2023angle,
  title={AnglE-optimized Text Embeddings},
  author={Li, Xianming and Li, Jing},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.12871},
  year={2023}
}

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)accuracy75.552
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)ap38.264
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)f169.410
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationaccuracy92.843
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationap89.576
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationf192.826
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)accuracy48.292
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)f147.903
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_142.105
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_1058.181
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_10058.654
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_100058.657
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_354.386
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_556.758
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_142.745
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_1058.437
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_10058.895
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_100058.898
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_354.635
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_557.000
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_142.105
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_1066.150
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_10068.048
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_100068.114
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