# Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-s

Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-s · 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/Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-s
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- Downloads: 50965
- Stars: 29
- Card completeness: 90%

## Description

External Hugging Face catalog record for Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-s. Task: sentence similarity. Library: sentence transformers. Includes 12 model-card evaluation signals. Popularity signal at import: 192,629 downloads and 29 likes.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: apache-2.0
- Pipeline: sentence-similarity
- Library: sentence-transformers
- Task categories: sentence-similarity
- Paper ids: 2407.18887, 2405.05374
- Model-index entries: snowflake-snowflake-arctic-embed-s
- Evaluation signals: 12 model-card eval results
- File hints: 16 upstream file samples

## Evaluation Signals

- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en): accuracy = 71.17910447761193 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en): ap = 33.15833652904991 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en): f1 = 64.86214791591543 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification: accuracy = 78.750325 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification: ap = 72.83242788470943 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification: f1 = 78.63968044029453 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en): accuracy = 38.264 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en): f1 = 37.140269688532825 (Classification)
- MTEB ArguAna: map_at_1 = 32.646 (Retrieval)
- MTEB ArguAna: map_at_10 = 48.372 (Retrieval)

## Referenced Data

- Paper: 2407.18887
- Paper: 2405.05374

## File Hints

- .gitattributes
- 1_Pooling/config.json
- README.md
- config.json
- config_sentence_transformers.json
- model.safetensors
- modules.json
- onnx/model.onnx
- onnx/model_bnb4.onnx
- onnx/model_fp16.onnx
- onnx/model_int8.onnx
- onnx/model_q4.onnx

## 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: pending

## Safety Notes

- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-07-01T22:49:58.277Z.
- Open license detected as apache-2.0.
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- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

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