# intfloat/e5-base-unsupervised

Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: intfloat/e5-base-unsupervised · 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/intfloat/e5-base-unsupervised
- Hosting: hosted (11 files)
- Files: 11 hosted of 12 listed
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- Recommended file: 438 MB · model.safetensors
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- Peer-assisted fallbacks: 0 verified, 0 pending review
- Downloads: 35101
- Stars: 2
- Card completeness: 92%

## Description

External Hugging Face catalog record for intfloat/e5-base-unsupervised. Task: sentence similarity. Library: sentence transformers. Languages: en. Popularity signal at import: 1,588 downloads and 2 likes.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: mit
- Pipeline: sentence-similarity
- Library: sentence-transformers
- Task categories: sentence-similarity
- Languages: en
- Paper ids: 2212.03533, 2104.08663, 2210.07316
- File hints: 12 upstream file samples

## Referenced Data

- Paper: 2212.03533
- Paper: 2104.08663
- Paper: 2210.07316

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.4 KB)
- 1_Pooling/config.json (200 B)
- README.md (5.0 KB)
- config.json (700 B)
- model.safetensors (418 MB) LFS
- modules.json (387 B)
- pytorch_model.bin (418 MB) LFS
- sentence_bert_config.json (57 B)
- special_tokens_map.json (112 B)
- tokenizer.json (455 KB)
- tokenizer_config.json (363 B)
- vocab.txt (226 KB)

## 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

- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-07-29T22:23:17.585Z.
- 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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