# NbAiLab/nb-sbert-base

Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: NbAiLab/nb-sbert-base · sentence transformers

## Facts

- Type: Embedding
- Task: sentence-similarity
- Framework: sentence-transformers
- License: apache-2.0 — Permissive open license: commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted. (https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html)
- Source: https://huggingface.co/NbAiLab/nb-sbert-base
- Hosting: hosted (8 files)
- Files: 8 hosted of 15 listed
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- Recommended file: 711.4 MB · model.safetensors
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- Downloads: 25074
- Stars: 24
- Card completeness: 96%

## Description

External Hugging Face catalog record for NbAiLab/nb-sbert-base. Task: sentence similarity. Library: sentence transformers. Languages: no. Datasets referenced by card metadata: NbAiLab/mnli-norwegian. Popularity signal at import: 23,828 downloads and 24 likes.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: apache-2.0
- Pipeline: sentence-similarity
- Library: sentence-transformers
- Task categories: sentence-similarity
- Languages: no
- Referenced datasets: NbAiLab/mnli-norwegian
- File hints: 15 upstream file samples

## Referenced Data

- Dataset: NbAiLab/mnli-norwegian

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.4 KB)
- 1_Pooling/config.json (190 B)
- README.md (9.6 KB)
- config.json (853 B)
- config_sentence_transformers.json (124 B)
- eval/similarity_evaluation_sts-dev_results.csv (1.8 KB)
- model.safetensors (678 MB) LFS
- modules.json (229 B)
- pytorch_model.bin (679 MB) LFS
- sentence_bert_config.json (52 B)
- similarity_evaluation_sts-test_results.csv (298 B)
- special_tokens_map.json (125 B)

## 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 2026-08-27T20:46:04.755Z.
- Open license detected as apache-2.0.
- Model card references dataset context: NbAiLab/mnli-norwegian.
- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

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