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use-cmlm-multilingual

Embeddings sentence-transformers Embeddings 1 build Open weights 4k dl/mo

use-cmlm-multilingual is an open-weight embedding model from sentence-transformers. use-cmlm-multilingual (FP32) weighs 944 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • use-cmlm-multilingual is a sentence-transformers model designed for sentence-similarity tasks.
  • It maps 109 languages to a shared vector space and is based on LaBSE.
  • The model has 472M parameters, a context length of 512 tokens, and is released under the apache-2.0 licence.

Summary of the sentence-transformers/use-cmlm-multilingual model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bysentence-transformers
Released2022-04-13
Parameters472M
VRAM944 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for use-cmlm-multilingual (FP32)

944 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 sentence-transformers says about use-cmlm-multilingual

Read the model card

This is a pytorch version of the universal-sentence-encoder-cmlm/multilingual-base-br model. It can be used to map 109 languages to a shared vector space. As the model is based LaBSE, it perform quite comparable on downstream tasks.

Usage (Sentence-Transformers)

Using this model becomes easy when you have sentence-transformers installed:

pip install -U sentence-transformers

Then you can use the model like this:

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
sentences = ["This is an example sentence", "Each sentence is converted"]

model = SentenceTransformer('sentence-transformers/use-cmlm-multilingual')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Full Model Architecture

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 256, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: BertModel
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 768, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False})
  (2): Normalize()
)

Citing & Authors

Have a look at universal-sentence-encoder-cmlm/multilingual-base-br for the respective publication that describes this model.

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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