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finance-embeddings-investopedia

Embeddings FinLang Embeddings 1 build Non-commercial 12k dl/mo

finance-embeddings-investopedia is an open-weight embedding model from FinLang. finance-embeddings-investopedia (FP32) weighs 219 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • finance-embeddings-investopedia is a 109M parameter sentence-similarity model developed by FinLang for financial applications.
  • It is a fine-tuned version of BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5 that maps text to a 768-dimensional vector space with a context length of 512 tokens.
  • The model is intended for clustering and semantic search in RAG systems and is released under the cc-by-nc-4.0 license.

Summary of the FinLang/finance-embeddings-investopedia model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byFinLang
Released2024-04-22
Parameters109M
VRAM219 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for finance-embeddings-investopedia (FP32)

219 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 FinLang says about finance-embeddings-investopedia

Read the model card

This is the Investopedia embedding for finance application by the FinLang team. The model is trained using our open-sourced finance dataset from https://huggingface.co/datasets/FinLang/investopedia-embedding-dataset

This is a finetuned embedding model on top of BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5. It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search in RAG applications.

This project is for research purposes only. Third-party datasets may be subject to additional terms and conditions under their associated licenses.

Plans

  • The research paper will be published soon.
  • We are working on a v2 version of the model where we are increasing the training corpus of financial data and using improved techniques for training embeddings.

Usage (LLamaIndex)

Simply specify the Finlang embedding during the indexing procedure for your Financial RAG applications.

from llama_index.embeddings import HuggingFaceEmbedding
embed_model = HuggingFaceEmbedding(model_name="FinLang/investopedia_embedding")

Usage (Sentence-Transformers)

Using this model becomes easy when you have sentence-transformers installed (see https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers):

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('FinLang/investopedia_embedding')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Example code testing:

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer, util

model = SentenceTransformer("FinLang/investopedia_embedding")

query_1 = "What is a potential concern with allowing someone else to store your cryptocurrency keys, and is it possible to decrypt a private key?"
query_2 = "A potential concern is that the entity holding your keys has control over your cryptocurrency in a custodial relationship. While it is theoretically possible to decrypt a private key, with current technology, it would take centuries or millennia for the 115 quattuorvigintillion possibilities. Most hacks and thefts occur in wallets, where private keys are stored."

embedding_1 = model.encode(query_1)
embedding_2 = model.encode(query_2)
scores = (embedding_1*embedding_2).sum()
print(scores) # 0.862

Evaluation Results

We evaluate our model on unseen pairs of sentences for similarity and unseen shuffled pairs of sentences for dissimilarity. Our evaluation suite contains sentence pairs from: Investopedia (to test for proficiency on finance), and Gooaq, MSMARCO,stackexchange_duplicate_questions_title_title, yahoo_answers_title_answer (to evaluate models ability to avoid forgetting after finetuning).

License

Since non-commercial datasets are used for fine-tuning, we release this model as cc-by-nc-4.0.

Citation [Coming Soon]

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

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