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sarashina-embedding

Embeddings sbintuitions Embeddings 1 build Non-commercial 392k dl/mo

sarashina-embedding is an open-weight embedding model from sbintuitions. sarashina-embedding-v1-1b (FP32) weighs 2.4 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • Sarashina-Embedding-v1-1B is a 1.2B-parameter sentence embedding model developed by sbintuitions for Japanese and English text.
  • It maps inputs to a 1792-dimensional vector space with a maximum context length of 8192 tokens.
  • The model is licensed under the Sarashina Model NonCommercial License Agreement.

Summary of the sbintuitions/sarashina-embedding-v1-1b model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bysbintuitions
Released2024-11-22
Parameters1.2B
VRAM2.4 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for sarashina-embedding-v1-1b (FP32)

2.4 GBweights, 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 sbintuitions says about sarashina-embedding

Read the model card

日本語のREADME/Japanese README

"Sarashina-Embedding-v1-1B" is a Japanese text embedding model, based on the 1.2B-parameter Japanese LLM "Sarashina2.1-1B". We trained this model with multi-stage contrastive learning. We achieved the state-of-the-art average score across 16 datasets in JMTEB (Japanese Massive Text Embedding Benchmark).

This model maps sentences & paragraphs to a 1792-dimensional dense vector space and can be used for semantic textual similarity, semantic search, paraphrase mining, text classification, clustering, and other applications.

Model Details

Model Description

Full Model Architecture

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 8192, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: LlamaModel
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 1792, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_weightedmean_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_lasttoken': True, 'include_prompt': False})
)

Usage

First install the Sentence Transformers library:

pip install -U sentence-transformers

Then you can load this model and run inference.

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SentenceTransformer("sbintuitions/sarashina-embedding-v1-1b")
# Run inference
sentences = [
    '更級日記は、平安時代中期に菅原孝標女によって書かれた回想録です。',
    'Sarashinaは、SB Intuitionsが開発した日本語大規模言語モデルです。これまでに7B, 13B, 70B, 8x70Bのモデルが公開されています。',
    'サラシナエンベディングは日本語言語モデルをベースにした日本語埋め込みモデルです。'
]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings.shape)
# [3, 1792]

# Get the similarity scores between the embeddings
similarities = model.similarity(embeddings, embeddings)
print(similarities.shape)
# [3, 3]

Note

  • You do not need to add prefixes such as "Query: " and "Document: " to the beginning of the input sentence.
  • This model is licensed under the Sarashina Model NonCommercial License Agreement, which has restrictions on commercial use. If you are interested in utilizing this model for your business, please feel free to contact us through our contact page.

Training

"Sarashina-Embedding-v1-1B" is created through the following two-stage learning process:

Stage 1: Weakly-supervised Learning

To achieve generic text embedding performance across a wide range of domains, we performed contrastive training on weakly-supervised data consisting of our own web-crawled data and open data.

Datasets
datasetcounts
Auto Wiki QA/NLI50,521,135
web-crawled data (ours)47,370,649
MQA12,941,472
llm-japanese-dataset9,074,340
Wikipedia5,555,212
Quiz dataset (ours)988,478
Natural Questions132,796
JSQuAD62,859
SNOW(T15+T23)62,758
JaQuAD31,746
MKQA3,318
total126,744,763

Step2: Supervised Fine-tuning

To enable the model to learn a more accurate query-document similarity, we performed supervised fine-tuning using the following datasets.

Datasets
datasetcounts
JSNLI141,388
NU-MNLI67,987
Mr. TyDi (only Japanese subset)3,697
Natural Questions (sampled)20,000
total233,072

Evaluation Results with JMTEB

ModelMax TokensAvg.RetrievalSTSClassificationRerankingClusteringPairClassification
OpenAI/text-embedding-3-large[^oai]819174.0574.4882.5277.5893.5853.3262.35
cl-nagoya/ruri-large51273.3173.0283.1377.4392.9951.8262.29
pkshatech/GLuCoSE-base-ja-v251272.2373.3682.9674.2193.0148.6562.37
pkshatech/RoSEtta-base-ja102472.0473.2181.3972.4192.6953.2361.74
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Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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