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Ternary Weight Embedding

Oct 2024
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1.8MTEB English v2
Oct 2024released
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1F2LLM v2 14B69.92Qwen 3 Embedding 8B69.93F2LLM v2 8B69.24Qwen 3 Embedding 4B695F2LLM v2 4B68.6
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67Marbert All Nli Triplet Matryoshka30.668Ternary Weight Embedding27.2

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Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over tasks · Mandarin Chinese67#18
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over task types · Mandarin Chinese67.6#17
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese62.7#17
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese60.8#31
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese52.3#66
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese72.7#32
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese72.9#25
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese84.2#16
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian21.9#131
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese10.7#148
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese58.3#117
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English5.9#168
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English5.9#168
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English5.9#168
MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German23.7#110
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German23.7#109
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German39.6#157
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German49.4#112
MTEB German v1 · STS · German41.4#119
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German4.8#166
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German1.8#122
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German5#144
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (29 languages)27.2#68
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (29 languages)24.2#68
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)39.2#137
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English0.9#37
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)3.3#174
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)41.5#103
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)67.4#156
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)15.5#170
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)6#152
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)28.4#176
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)15.8#173
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)3.5#135
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French17.6#120
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French35.1#134
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French51#176
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French28.2#145
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)28.9#124
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)18.7#125
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)40.1#140
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)3.3#121
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)1.2#159
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)32.8#184
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)2.4#153
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi49.3#183
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)1.9#189
MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean36.2#81
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean19.8#138
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean4.3#150
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch22.3#127
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch32.8#126
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch3.6#127
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch37.5#128
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch19.7#134
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch48.7#127
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch8.2#134
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch48.2#202
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch64#81
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish37.4#138
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish57.9#149
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese17.4#159
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)11.6#164
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)11.6#164
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)11.6#164
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)11.2#132
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)15.5#130
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)8.4#134
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English20.8#230
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese17.2#161
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English0.9#37
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English0.9#37
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English0.9#37
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish25.5#129
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish51.9#173
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish5.2#146
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai51.1#164
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai3.2#176
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)17.1#177
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)51#183
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian26.4#137
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian12.4#159
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian10.8#144
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian26.1#121
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian48.9#141
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)0.3#213
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German3.6#210
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)11.5#212
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)31.1#95
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)26.6#95
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)23.9#163
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)43.2#115
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)38.9#157
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)10.6#175
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)12.1#168
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)12.6#173
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English0.9#37
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)32.1#171
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)64.9#170

FAQ

How much does Ternary Weight Embedding cost?›

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

Is Ternary Weight Embedding free to use?›

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

How good is Ternary Weight Embedding, and what is it best at?›

#200 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Ternary Weight Embedding better than Marbert All Nli Triplet Matryoshka?›

On MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (29 languages), Ternary Weight Embedding scores 27.2 vs 30.6 — lower.

When was Ternary Weight Embedding released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2024-10-23. It is the current version in its line.

Is Ternary Weight Embedding open source?›

Yes, the weights are open.

Can I run Ternary Weight Embedding locally?›

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

What is Ternary Weight Embedding?›

Ternary Weight Embedding is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from malenia1, released Oct 2024.

What are the best alternatives to Ternary Weight Embedding?›

E5 Base v2 (better), Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (open weights).