embedding
gte-small
gte-small, a checkpoint of the GTE (General Text Embeddings) family. Alibaba text embedding line trained with multi-stage contrastive learning, for retrieval, clustering and semantic similarity.
Levelvariant
Classembedding
Parameters33.36M
Contextnot in the notes
Released27 Jul 2023
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive
Identity
- Developer
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Family
- GTE (General Text Embeddings)
- Released
- 27 Jul 2023 sourcesregistry date
- Weights published
- –
- Record checked
- 12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.
Architecture and Size
- Architecture
- dense transformer
- Total parameters
- 33.36M sources
- Active parameters
- –
- Checkpoint parameters
- –
- Note
- Parameter count from the safetensors index on Hugging Face.
- Context length
- not in the notes
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).
Openness and Access
- Openness
- open weights permissive
- Licence
- MIT License sources
- Access routes
- open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.
Deployment
- Runs on
- not in the notes
- Footprint
- not in the notes
- Runtimes
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.
Indonesia
- Indonesian support
- not stated
- Regional languages
- not in the notes
- Jakarta hosting
- unknown
- Languages
- Model card languages: en
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.
Benchmark Results
The notes record no benchmark result for this model.
Lineage
The notes record no lineage for this model.
Industry Use Cases
No industry use case links this model.
Links
DeveloperAlibaba (Qwen)big tech, China
Alibaba (Qwen)big tech, ChinaModelgte-smallAlibaba (Qwen), embedding
gte-smallAlibaba (Qwen), embeddingUse CasesEmbeddings and Retrieval for SEA LanguagesPublic SectorUse cases of models in the same R&D topic; none is recorded for this model itself.
Who Runs Itnone recordedDeployments of these use cases; none names this model.
Organisations 1
Sources
- arxiv.org/abs/2308.03281 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03281
- huggingface.co/thenlper/gte-small https://huggingface.co/thenlper/gte-small
- jumpstart-cache-prod-us-west-2.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/models_manifest.json https://jumpstart-cache-prod-us-west-2.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/models_manifest.json
- huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=sentence-similarity&s... https://huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=sentence-similarity&sort=downloads&limit=50
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Gte-Small", https://aurion.semai.id/models/alibaba-gte-small/, records of October 2026.