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sentence-camembert-large

Embeddings Lajavaness Embeddings 1 build Open weights 3k dl/mo

sentence-camembert-large is an open-weight embedding model from Lajavaness. sentence-camembert-large (FP32) weighs 673 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • sentence-camembert-large is a 337M parameter sentence-similarity model developed by Lajavaness for processing French text.
  • It generates semantic vector embeddings to support tasks like semantic search and is licensed under apache-2.0.
  • The model has a context length of 514 tokens and is fine-tuned on the stsb dataset.

Summary of the Lajavaness/sentence-camembert-large model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byLajavaness
Released2023-10-25
Parameters337M
VRAM673 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for sentence-camembert-large (FP32)

673 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 Lajavaness says about sentence-camembert-large

Read the model card

Description:

This Sentence-CamemBERT-Large Model is an Embedding Model for French developed by La Javaness. The purpose of this embedding model is to represent the content and semantics of a French sentence as a mathematical vector, allowing it to understand the meaning of the text beyond individual words in queries and documents. It offers powerful semantic search capabilities.

Pre-trained sentence embedding models are state-of-the-art of Sentence Embeddings for French.

The Lajavaness/sentence-camembert-large model is an improvement over the dangvantuan/sentence-camembert-base offering greater robustness and better performance on all STS benchmark datasets. It has been fine-tuned using the pre-trained facebook/camembert-large and Siamese BERT-Networks with 'sentences-transformers' on dataset stsb. Additionally, it has been combined with Augmented SBERT on dataset stsb. The model benefits from Pair Sampling Strategies using two models: CrossEncoder-camembert-large and dangvantuan/sentence-camembert-large

Usage

The model can be used directly (without a language model) as follows:

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
model =  SentenceTransformer("Lajavaness/sentence-camembert-large")

sentences = ["Un avion est en train de décoller.",
          "Un homme joue d'une grande flûte.",
          "Un homme étale du fromage râpé sur une pizza.",
          "Une personne jette un chat au plafond.",
          "Une personne est en train de plier un morceau de papier.",
          ]

embeddings = model.encode(sentences)

Evaluation

The model can be evaluated as follows on the French test data of stsb.

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
from sentence_transformers.readers import InputExample
from datasets import load_dataset
def convert_dataset(dataset):
    dataset_samples=[]
    for df in dataset:
        score = float(df['similarity_score'])/5.0  # Normalize score to range 0 ... 1
        inp_example = InputExample(texts=[df['sentence1'],
                                    df['sentence2']], label=score)
        dataset_samples.append(inp_example)
    return dataset_samples

# Loading the dataset for evaluation
df_dev = load_dataset("stsb_multi_mt", name="fr", split="dev")
df_test = load_dataset("stsb_multi_mt", name="fr", split="test")

# Convert the dataset for evaluation

# For Dev set:
dev_samples = convert_dataset(df_dev)
val_evaluator = EmbeddingSimilarityEvaluator.from_input_examples(dev_samples, name='sts-dev')
val_evaluator(model, output_path="./")

# For Test set:
test_samples = convert_dataset(df_test)
test_evaluator = EmbeddingSimilarityEvaluator.from_input_examples(test_samples, name='sts-test')
test_evaluator(model, output_path="./")

Test Result: The performance is measured using Pearson and Spearman correlation:

  • On dev
ModelPearson correlationSpearman correlation#params
Lajavaness/sentence-camembert-large88.6388.46336M
dangvantuan/sentence-camembert-large88.288.02336M
Sahajtomar/french_semanti87.4487.30336M
Lajavaness/sentence-flaubert-base87.1487.10137M
GPT-3 (text-davinci-003)85NaN175B
GPT-(text-embedding-ada-002)79.7580.44NaN
  • On test, Pearson and Spearman correlation are evaluated on many different benchmark datasets:

Pearson score

ModelSTS-BSTS12-fr STS13-frSTS14-frSTS15-frSTS16-frSICK-frparams
Lajavaness/sentence-camembert-large86.2687.4289.3488.0588.9177.1583.13336M
dangvantuan/sentence-camembert-large85.8887.2889.2587.9188.5476.9083.26336M
Sahajtomar/french_semantic85.8086.0588.5086.5787.4977.8583.27336M
Lajavaness/sentence-flaubert-base85.3986.6487.2485.6887.9975.7882.84137M
GPT3 (text-embedding-ada-002)79.0366.1675.4870.6977.8865.18--

**Spearman s

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
Sentence-EmbeddingText Similarity frTest Pearson correlation coefficient88.630
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