# BAAI/bge-m3

Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: BAAI/bge-m3 · sentence transformers

## Facts

- Type: Embedding
- Task: sentence-similarity
- Framework: sentence-transformers
- License: mit — Permissive open license: commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted. (https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html)
- Source: https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-m3
- Hosting: hosted (16 files)
- Files: 16 hosted of 43 listed
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- Repository size (all listed files): 4.6 GB
- Hosted download size: 45 MB
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- Run-ready: no (Hugging Bay has not certified a run path for this model; hosted bytes are downloadable and hash-checkable only)
- Peer-assisted fallbacks: 0 verified, 0 pending review
- Downloads: 31290962
- Stars: 3835
- Card completeness: 85%

## Description

External Hugging Face catalog record for BAAI/bge-m3. Task: sentence similarity. Library: sentence transformers. Files we host go through mirror review, a safety scan, and get a published SHA-256 before they're listed. Signing is not live yet.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: mit
- Pipeline: sentence-similarity
- Library: sentence-transformers
- Task categories: sentence-similarity
- Paper ids: 2402.03216, 2004.04906, 2106.14807, 2107.05720, 2004.12832
- File hints: 16 upstream file samples

## Referenced Data

- Paper: 2402.03216
- Paper: 2004.04906
- Paper: 2106.14807
- Paper: 2107.05720
- Paper: 2004.12832

## File Hints

- .gitattributes
- 1_Pooling/config.json
- README.md
- colbert_linear.pt
- config.json
- config_sentence_transformers.json
- imgs/.DS_Store
- imgs/bm25.jpg
- imgs/long.jpg
- imgs/miracl.jpg
- imgs/mkqa.jpg
- imgs/nqa.jpg

## Quality Checklist

- Summary: passed
- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: passed
- License: passed
- Provenance: passed
- File inventory: passed
- Hosted bytes: passed
- Scan result: passed
- Manifest signature: passed

## Safety Notes

- Mirrored 1 selected Hugging Face file by configured-admin; hashes computed from downloaded bytes and manifest signed.
- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-06-30T01:50:32.065Z.
- Open license detected as mit.
- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

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