# Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-xs

Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-xs · sentence transformers

## Facts

- Type: Embedding
- Task: sentence-similarity
- Framework: sentence-transformers
- License: unknown
- Source: unknown
- Hosting: hosted (8 files)
- Files: 8 hosted of 19 listed
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- Stars: 43
- Card completeness: 90%

## Description

External Hugging Face catalog record for Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-xs. Task: sentence similarity. Library: sentence transformers. Includes 12 model-card evaluation signals. Files we host have a published SHA-256.

## Model Card Facts

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

## Evaluation Signals

- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en): accuracy = 65.08955223880598 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en): ap = 28.514291209445364 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en): f1 = 59.2604580112738 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification: accuracy = 70.035375 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification: ap = 64.29444264250405 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification: f1 = 69.78382333907138 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en): accuracy = 35.343999999999994 (Classification)
- MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en): f1 = 34.69618251902858 (Classification)
- MTEB ArguAna: map_at_1 = 28.592000000000002 (Retrieval)
- MTEB ArguAna: map_at_10 = 43.597 (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: review
- Provenance: missing
- File inventory: passed
- Hosted bytes: passed
- Scan result: passed
- Manifest signature: passed

## Safety Notes

- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-09-20T21:48:51.429Z.
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- Model-index metadata found for snowflake-snowflake-arctic-embed-xs.
- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

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