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Align Base

Feb 2023
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25.3MIEB lite
Feb 2023released
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1E5 V46.32Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small46.13EVA02 CLIP B 1645.74Clip Vit Base Patch1645.25Jina Clip v145.1
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19Siglip So400m Patch14 38440.420Align Base40.321Siglip Base Patch16 22439.8

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Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
MIEB English · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)49.1#30
MIEB English · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)49.1#30
MIEB English · Document Understanding · English31.4#63
MIEB English · Zero-shot Classification · English50.7#28
MIEB English · Any-to-any Retrieval · English31#26
MIEB English · Visual semantic similarity (English) · multilingual (13 languages)62.7#29
MIEB English · Image Classification · English71.2#30
MIEB English · Compositionality · English40.3#20
MIEB English · Vision Centric QA · English45.7#30
MIEB English · Image Clustering · English59.6#45
MIEB Img · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)50.9#31
MIEB Img · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)50.9#31
MIEB Img · Image Classification · English71.2#30
MIEB Img · Any-to-any Retrieval · English30.7#31
MIEB Img · Visual semantic similarity (English) · English60.4#31
MIEB Img · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)32.5#36
MIEB Img · Image Clustering · English59.6#45
MIEB lite · Mean over tasks · multilingual (41 languages)41.3#37
MIEB lite · Mean over task types · multilingual (41 languages)41.3#37
MIEB lite · Vision Centric QA · English47.1#37
MIEB lite · Any-to-any Retrieval · English24.8#34
MIEB lite · Document Understanding · English25.3#70
MIEB lite · Zero-shot Classification · English50.7#32
MIEB lite · Compositionality · English33.5#24
MIEB lite · Image Classification · English65.1#38
MIEB lite · Any-to-any Multilingual Retrieval · multilingual (40 languages)21.2#31
MIEB lite · Image Clustering · English54.5#49
MIEB lite · Visual semantic similarity (English) · English63.3#35
MIEB lite · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)27.3#42
MIEB multilingual · Mean over tasks · multilingual (41 languages)44.2#31
MIEB multilingual · Mean over task types · multilingual (41 languages)44.2#31
MIEB multilingual · Zero-shot Classification · English50.7#28
MIEB multilingual · Image Classification · English71.2#30
MIEB multilingual · Document Understanding · English31.4#63
MIEB multilingual · Any-to-any Retrieval · English31#26
MIEB multilingual · Compositionality · English40.3#20
MIEB multilingual · Vision Centric QA · English45.7#30
MIEB multilingual · Visual semantic similarity (English) · multilingual (13 languages)62.7#29
MIEB multilingual · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)27.3#42
MIEB multilingual · Any-to-any Multilingual Retrieval · multilingual (40 languages)22.4#22
MIEB multilingual · Image Clustering · English59.6#45

FAQ

How much does Align Base cost?›

There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.

Is Align Base free to use?›

There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

How good is Align Base, and what is it best at?›

#70 of 89 in Multimodal.

Is Align Base better than Siglip So400m Patch14 384?›

On MIEB English · Compositionality · English, Align Base scores 40.3 vs 40.4 — about the same.

When was Align Base released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2023-02-24. It is the current version in its line.

Is Align Base open source?›

Yes, the weights are open.

Can I run Align Base locally?›

The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.

What is Align Base?›

Align Base is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from kakaobrain, released Feb 2023.

What are the best alternatives to Align Base?›

Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small (better), E5 V (open weights).