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gte-tiny

Embeddings TaylorAI Embeddings 1 build Licence not stated 18k dl/mo

gte-tiny is an open-weight embedding model from TaylorAI. gte-tiny (FP16) weighs 45 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • gte-tiny is a sentence-transformers model developed by TaylorAI for sentence-similarity tasks.
  • It maps text to a 384-dimensional vector space and is designed for applications such as clustering and semantic search.
  • The model contains 23 million parameters, supports a context length of 512 tokens, and is distilled from thenlper/gte-small.

Summary of the TaylorAI/gte-tiny model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byTaylorAI
Released2023-10-05
Parameters23M
VRAM45 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for gte-tiny (FP16)

45 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 TaylorAI says about gte-tiny

Read the model card

This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 384 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search. It is distilled from thenlper/gte-small, with comparable (slightly worse) performance at around half the size.

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('{MODEL_NAME}')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Usage (HuggingFace Transformers)

Without sentence-transformers, you can use the model like this: First, you pass your input through the transformer model, then you have to apply the right pooling-operation on-top of the contextualized word embeddings.

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
import torch

#Mean Pooling - Take attention mask into account for correct averaging
def mean_pooling(model_output, attention_mask):
    token_embeddings = model_output[0] #First element of model_output contains all token embeddings
    input_mask_expanded = attention_mask.unsqueeze(-1).expand(token_embeddings.size()).float()
    return torch.sum(token_embeddings * input_mask_expanded, 1) / torch.clamp(input_mask_expanded.sum(1), min=1e-9)

# Sentences we want sentence embeddings for
sentences = ['This is an example sentence', 'Each sentence is converted']

# Load model from HuggingFace Hub
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('{MODEL_NAME}')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('{MODEL_NAME}')

# Tokenize sentences
encoded_input = tokenizer(sentences, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt')

# Compute token embeddings
with torch.no_grad():
    model_output = model(**encoded_input)

# Perform pooling. In this case, mean pooling.
sentence_embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])

print("Sentence embeddings:")
print(sentence_embeddings)

Evaluation Results

For an automated evaluation of this model, see the Sentence Embeddings Benchmark: https://seb.sbert.net

Full Model Architecture

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 512, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: BertModel
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 384, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False})
)

Citing & Authors

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)accuracy71.761
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)ap34.637
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)f165.889
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationaccuracy86.613
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationap81.748
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationf186.586
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)accuracy42.610
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)f142.222
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_128.378
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_1044.565
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_10045.480
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_100045.487
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_339.841
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_542.284
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_129.445
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_1044.956
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_10045.877
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_100045.884
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_340.209
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_542.719
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_128.378
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_1053.638
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_10057.354
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_100057.513
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