E5-Mistral-7B-Instruct

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Microsoft · E5 · Released 2024-01

7BEmbedding

A large decoder-based embedding model that topped the MTEB leaderboard at release, trading model size for retrieval quality.

Strengths

  • +MIT license, unrestricted use
  • +Top-tier retrieval quality on MTEB at release
  • +Instruction-conditioned embeddings improve task-specific relevance

Limitations

  • -7B parameters make it far slower and more memory-hungry than small embedders like all-MiniLM
  • -Overkill for latency-sensitive, high-QPS retrieval

License

MIT

use commercially with attribution niceties

Hardware

runs on a good consumer GPU (or Apple Silicon) with quantization

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