---
title: nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16
url: https://recentmodel.com/models/nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16/
status: main board
published: 2026-10-07T10:46:18Z
updated: 2026-10-07T10:46:18Z
source: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16
---

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

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."

- 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; sizing calculation, not tested.

- Q4 ~2.2 GB: no listed device
- Q8 ~2.7 GB: no listed device
- FP16 ~4.6 GB: 8GB GPU (4060 / 3070), 12GB GPU (RTX 3060), 16GB GPU (5060 Ti / 4060 Ti / 4080 / 5080), 24GB GPU (3090 / 4090), 32GB GPU (5090), 48GB GPU (RTX 6000 Ada / A6000), 96GB GPU (RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell), 1× DGX Spark (128GB), 2× DGX Spark (256GB), 16GB GPU (7800 XT / 9070 XT), 24GB GPU (7900 XTX), Strix Halo 128GB unified (~96GB usable), Arc B60 24GB, Arc B70 32GB, Mac 16GB, Mac 24GB, Mac 36GB, Mac 48GB, Mac 64GB (M1 Max), Mac 96GB, Mac 128GB, Mac 192GB, Mac 256GB, Mac 512GB, CPU only, 32GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 64GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 128GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 256GB RAM (slow)

## Links

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16)
- [Ollama](https://ollama.com/library/d1)
- [quant: nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-NVFP4](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-NVFP4)