# NbAiLab/nb-sbert-v2-large

Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: NbAiLab/nb-sbert-v2-large · 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-v2-large
- Hosting: hosted (8 files)
- Files: 8 hosted of 13 listed
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- Peer-assisted fallbacks: 0 verified, 0 pending review
- Downloads: 858
- Stars: 3
- Card completeness: 96%

## Description

External Hugging Face catalog record for NbAiLab/nb-sbert-v2-large. Task: sentence similarity. Library: sentence transformers. Languages: no. Datasets referenced by card metadata: NbAiLab/mnli-norwegian. Base model: NbAiLab/nb-bert-large. Includes 2 model-card evaluation signals. Popularity signal at import: 2,773 downloads and 3 likes.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: apache-2.0
- Pipeline: sentence-similarity
- Library: sentence-transformers
- Base model: NbAiLab/nb-bert-large
- Task categories: sentence-similarity
- Languages: no
- Referenced datasets: NbAiLab/mnli-norwegian
- Metrics: pearson_cosine, spearman_cosine
- Paper ids: 1908.10084, 1807.03748, 2104.09617
- Model-index entries: SentenceTransformer based on NbAiLab/nb-bert-large
- Evaluation signals: 2 model-card eval results
- File hints: 13 upstream file samples

## Evaluation Signals

- sts dev: Pearson Cosine = 0.8522873287740148 (Semantic Similarity)
- sts dev: Spearman Cosine = 0.8542943150375141 (Semantic Similarity)

## Referenced Data

- Dataset: NbAiLab/mnli-norwegian
- Paper: 1908.10084
- Paper: 1807.03748
- Paper: 2104.09617

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.6 KB)
- 1_Pooling/config.json (313 B)
- Model_Documentation_Form_nb-sbert-v2-large.pdf (309 KB) LFS
- README.md (26 KB)
- config.json (613 B)
- config_sentence_transformers.json (285 B)
- model.safetensors (1.3 GB) LFS
- modules.json (229 B)
- sentence_bert_config.json (57 B)
- special_tokens_map.json (125 B)
- tokenizer.json (1.1 MB)
- tokenizer_config.json (1.2 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 2026-09-22T06:32:56.882Z.
- Open license detected as apache-2.0.
- Model-index metadata found for SentenceTransformer based on NbAiLab/nb-bert-large.
- 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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