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nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16

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The Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16 model was distilled from the Nemotron-3.5-Embed-8B-BF16 embedding teacher using combined cosine distance (COS) and mean squared error (MSE) losses on multilingual text and image retrieval data. Dense, 1.6B params. Context: 256K tokens (config). License: openmdw-1.1. Vendor-reported: "Among models of comparable size, Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16 achieves state-of-the-art results across multiple multilingual and multimodal retrieval benchmarks."

Org
nvidia
Released
2026-10-07
Status
main board
License
openmdw-1.1 (permissive)
Parameters
1.6B
Architecture
dense · Mistral3Model
Context
262,144 tokens
Task
visual-document-retrieval · embedding
Signal
45 HF likes · 5085 downloads

Runs on

real quant files; need = weights + FP16 KV cache for 8K tokens + 1GB. A sizing calculation, not tested.

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