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granite-embedding-30m-sparse

ibm-granite · granite-embedding-30m-sparse

**Model Summary:** Granite-Embedding-30m-Sparse is a 30M parameter sparse biencoder embedding model from the Granite Experimental suite that can be used to generate high quality text embeddings. This model produces variable length bag-of-word like dictionary, containing expansions of sentence tokens and their corresponding weights and is trained using a combination of open source relevance-pair datasets with permissive, enterprise-friendly license, and IBM collected and generated datasets. While maintaining competitive scores on academic benchmarks such as BEIR, this model also performs well on many enterprise use cases. This model is developed using retrieval oriented pretraining, contrastive finetuning and knowledge distillation for improved performance. **Intended use:** The model is designed to produce variable length bag-of-word like dictionary, containing expansions of sentence tokens and their corresponding weights, for a given text, which can be used for text similarity, retrieval, and search applications. The model can then be used to encode pairs of text and find the similarity between their representations

Embeddings & similaritylicense:apache-2.0
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Input → OutputText → Embedding
Model weightsNot verified
Profile updated2026/11/2 19:16:50
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Model overview

**Model Summary:** Granite-Embedding-30m-Sparse is a 30M parameter sparse biencoder embedding model from the Granite Experimental suite that can be used to generate high quality text embeddings. This model produces variable length bag-of-word like dictionary, containing expansions of sentence tokens and their corresponding weights and is trained using a combination of open source relevance-pair datasets with permissive, enterprise-friendly license, and IBM collected and generated datasets. While maintaining competitive scores on academic benchmarks such as BEIR, this model also performs well on many enterprise use cases. This model is developed using retrieval oriented pretraining, contrastive finetuning and knowledge distillation for improved performance. **Intended use:** The model is designed to produce variable length bag-of-word like dictionary, containing expansions of sentence tokens and their corresponding weights, for a given text, which can be used for text similarity, retrieval, and search applications. The model can then be used to encode pairs of text and find the similarity between their representations

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