granite embedding 311m multilingual r2
Granite-Embedding-311M-Multilingual-R2 is a 311M-parameter dense embedding model from IBM's Granite Embeddings collection, licensed Apache-2.0. It produces 768-dimensional vectors and supports a context length of up to 32,768 tokens. The model is based on the ModernBERT architecture and supports 200+ languages, with enhanced support for 52 languages and programming code. It is released with ONNX and OpenVINO models and is tagged for sentence-transformers, feature extraction, and multilingual use.
At a glance
- Parameters
- 0.31B
- Architecture
- modernbert
- Context length
- 32,768
- License
- apache-2.0
- Disk space
- 0.6 GB
- Software
- vLLM
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- Multilingual text embeddings for retrieval and semantic similarity
- Code retrieval for Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, SQL, C, and C++
- Long-document search with up to 32,768 token context
- Conversational multi-turn retrieval
- Reasoning retrieval tasks
Tradeoffs
- Explicit enhanced support covers only 52 languages and code, despite claims of 200+ language support
- Performance may degrade when using Matryoshka dimension reduction below 768 dimensions
- Training and evaluation details for all languages are not provided
- The model card does not report numerical hardware requirements or latency benchmarks
- No independent testing or validation is claimed in the source
Ways to run it
vLLM · Linux
Repository-specific command in publisher documentation; confirm dependencies and hardware in the source.
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