Model reference · open weights
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.
For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.
Summary of the TaylorAI/gte-tiny model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | TaylorAI |
|---|---|
| Released | 2023-10-05 |
| Parameters | 23M |
| VRAM | 45 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Runs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From 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.
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)
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)
For an automated evaluation of this model, see the Sentence Embeddings Benchmark: https://seb.sbert.net
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})
)
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
Benchmarks
As published on the model card: the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classification | MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | accuracy | 71.761 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | ap | 34.637 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | f1 | 65.889 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | accuracy | 86.613 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | ap | 81.748 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | f1 | 86.586 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) | accuracy | 42.610 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) | f1 | 42.222 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_1 | 28.378 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_10 | 44.565 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_100 | 45.480 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_1000 | 45.487 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_3 | 39.841 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_5 | 42.284 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_1 | 29.445 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_10 | 44.956 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_100 | 45.877 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_1000 | 45.884 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_3 | 40.209 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_5 | 42.719 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | ndcg_at_1 | 28.378 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | ndcg_at_10 | 53.638 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | ndcg_at_100 | 57.354 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | ndcg_at_1000 | 57.513 |