French embedding focus
The model card introduces Solon large 0.1 as an open-source French embedding model.
Open Source Model Profile · OrdalieTech
Solon-embeddings-large-0.1 is a 559.89M-parameter French embedding model from OrdalieTech with a documented query-prefix format.
Solon-embeddings-large-0.1 is published by OrdalieTech as a feature-extraction model. Safetensors metadata reports 559,890,432 parameters, with XLMRobertaModel and model type xlm-roberta. According to the model card, it is a French Solon large embedding release.
The model card introduces Solon large 0.1 as an open-source French embedding model.
According to the model card, retrieval queries gain performance with a query : prefix, while passages need no instruction.
The model card reports a 0.7490 mean score across 9 French classification, reranking, and STS benchmarks, ahead of the listed multilingual alternatives.
Source: OrdalieTech/Solon-embeddings-large-0.1
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Solon Embeddings — large 0.1 SOTA Open source french embedding model. Instructions : Add "query : " before the query to retrieve to increase performance of retrieval. No instructions needed for passages . Model Mean Score OrdalieTech/Solon-embeddings-large-0.1 0.7490 cohere/embed-multilingual-v3 0.7402 OrdalieTech/Solon-embeddings-base-0.1 0.7306 openai/ada-002 0.7290 cohere/embed-multilingual-light-v3 0.6945 antoinelouis/biencoder-camembert-base-mmarcoFR 0.6826 dangvantuan/sentence-camembert-large 0.6756 voyage/voyage-01 0.6753 intfloat/multilingual-e5-large 0.6660 intfloat/multilingual-e5-base 0.6597 Sbert/paraphrase-multilingual-…
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