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GGUF format of Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 for use with CrispEmbed and Ollama.
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"readme_markdown": "---\nlicense: mit\nlanguage: [en]\ntags: [embeddings, gguf, ggml, text-embeddings, xlm-r, crispembed, ollama]\npipeline_tag: feature-extraction\nbase_model: Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0\n---\n\n# arctic-embed-l-v2 GGUF\n\nGGUF format of [Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0](https://huggingface.co/Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0) for use with [CrispEmbed](https://github.com/CrispStrobe/CrispEmbed) and [Ollama](https://ollama.com).\n\n## Files\n\n| File | Quantization | Size |\n|------|-------------|------|\n| [arctic-embed-l-v2-q4_k.gguf](https://huggingface.co/cstr/arctic-embed-l-v2-GGUF/resolve/main/arctic-embed-l-v2-q4_k.gguf) | Q4_K | 0 MB |\n| [arctic-embed-l-v2-q8_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/cstr/arctic-embed-l-v2-GGUF/resolve/main/arctic-embed-l-v2-q8_0.gguf) | Q8_0 | 0 MB |\n| [arctic-embed-l-v2.gguf](https://huggingface.co/cstr/arctic-embed-l-v2-GGUF/resolve/main/arctic-embed-l-v2.gguf) | F32 | 0 MB |\n\n**Recommended:** Q8_0 for quality (cos vs HF: L2=1.0), Q4_K for size (L2=1.0).\n\n## Quick Start\n\n### CrispEmbed\n```bash\n./crispembed -m arctic-embed-l-v2 \"Hello world\"\n./crispembed-server -m arctic-embed-l-v2 --port 8080\n```\n\n### Ollama (with [CrispStrobe fork](https://github.com/CrispStrobe/ollama/tree/feat/xlmr-embedding))\n```bash\necho \"FROM arctic-embed-l-v2-q8_0.gguf\" > Modelfile\nollama create arctic-embed-l-v2 -f Modelfile\ncurl http://localhost:11434/api/embed -d '{\"model\":\"arctic-embed-l-v2\",\"input\":[\"Hello world\"]}'\n```\n\n### Python (CrispEmbed)\n```python\nfrom crispembed import CrispEmbed\nmodel = CrispEmbed(\"arctic-embed-l-v2-q8_0.gguf\")\nvectors = model.encode([\"Hello world\", \"Goodbye world\"])\n```\n\n## Model Details\n\n| Property | Value |\n|----------|-------|\n| Architecture | XLM-R |\n| Parameters | 560M |\n| Embedding Dimension | 1024 |\n| Layers | 24 |\n| Pooling | CLS |\n| Tokenizer | SentencePiece |\n| Language | en |\n| Q8_0 vs HuggingFace | L2=1.0 |\n| Q4_K vs HuggingFace | L2=1.0 |\n\n## Server API\n\nCrispEmbed server supports four API dialects:\n- `POST /embed` -- native\n- `POST /v1/embeddings` -- OpenAI-compatible\n- `POST /api/embed` -- Ollama-compatible\n- `POST /api/embeddings` -- Ollama legacy\n\n## Credits\n\n- Original model: [Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0](https://huggingface.co/Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0)\n- Inference: [CrispEmbed](https://github.com/CrispStrobe/CrispEmbed) (MIT, ggml-based)\n",
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