Top Embedding Fine-Tunes

Best fine-tuned embedding models for semantic search, RAG, and vector similarity.

Last updated April 3, 2026 · Updated daily

all-MiniLM-L12-v2 by sentence-transformers holds the #1 position with 3.7M downloads, ahead of all-MiniLM-L6-v2 at 1.5M.

The top 10 is dominated by sentence-transformers, Xenova, NeuML. This is the first snapshot — future updates will track position changes and emerging trends.

The gap between #1 and #100 is 3.7M vs 7.3K downloads, showing massive concentration at the top.

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all-MiniLM-L12-v2

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sentence-transformers · Embeddings · from microsoft/MiniLM-L12-H384-uncased

3.7M

downloads

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all-MiniLM-L6-v2

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Xenova · Embeddings · from sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

1.5M

downloads

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bge-base-en-v1.5

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Xenova · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5

1.5M

downloads

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pubmedbert-base-embeddings

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NeuML · Embeddings · from microsoft/BiomedNLP-BiomedBERT-base-uncased-abstract-fulltext

1.1M

downloads

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embedic-base

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djovak · Embeddings · from intfloat/multilingual-e5-base

950.9K

downloads

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RadEvalModernBERT

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IAMJB · Embeddings · from answerdotai/ModernBERT-base

541.7K

downloads

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OTel-Embedding-22M

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farbodtavakkoli · Embeddings · from sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

415.7K

downloads

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OTel-Embedding-33M

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farbodtavakkoli · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5

413.6K

downloads

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OTel-Embedding-34M

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farbodtavakkoli · Embeddings · from sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L12-v2

413.1K

downloads

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langcache-embed-v1

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redis · Embeddings · from Alibaba-NLP/gte-modernbert-base

389.4K

downloads

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OTel-Embedding-109M

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farbodtavakkoli · Embeddings · from sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2

382.9K

downloads

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OTel-Embedding-335M

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farbodtavakkoli · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5

344.3K

downloads

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OTel-Embedding-0.6B

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farbodtavakkoli · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B

338.5K

downloads

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OTel-Embedding-4B

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farbodtavakkoli · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-4B

334.7K

downloads

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OTel-Embedding-568M

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farbodtavakkoli · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-m3

332.8K

downloads

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jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano

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jinaai · Embeddings · from EuroBERT/EuroBERT-210m

288.6K

downloads

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Vietnamese_Embedding

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AITeamVN · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-m3

279.7K

downloads

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OTel-Embedding-8B

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farbodtavakkoli · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B

244.2K

downloads

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DEk21_hcmute_embedding

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huyydangg · Embeddings · from bkai-foundation-models/vietnamese-bi-encoder

201.0K

downloads

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jina-code-embeddings-1.5b

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jinaai · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B

190.4K

downloads

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modernbert-embed-base

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nomic-ai · Embeddings · from answerdotai/ModernBERT-base

186.9K

downloads

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bge-m3-spa-law-qa

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littlejohn-ai · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-m3

180.6K

downloads

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BGE-m3-ko

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dragonkue · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-m3

159.2K

downloads

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gte-modernbert-base

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Alibaba-NLP · Embeddings · from answerdotai/ModernBERT-base

158.9K

downloads

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jina-embeddings-v5-text-small

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jinaai · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-Base

144.5K

downloads

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bge-small-en-v1.5

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Xenova · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5

132.8K

downloads

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scion-snowflake-arctic-embed-s-v2

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tjohn327 · Embeddings · from Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-s

129.7K

downloads

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paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2

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Xenova · Embeddings · from sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2

111.8K

downloads

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KaLM-Embedding-Gemma3-12B-2511

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tencent · Embeddings · from google/gemma-3-12b-pt

99.0K

downloads

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nomic-embed-code

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nomic-ai · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct

98.8K

downloads

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distilbert-base-uncased

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OrcaDB · Embeddings · from distilbert/distilbert-base-uncased

94.0K

downloads

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embeddinggemma-300m-qat-q8_0-GGUF

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ggml-org · Embeddings · from google/embeddinggemma-300m-qat-q8_0-unquantized

88.5K

downloads

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Qwen3-Embedding-4B-W4A16-G128

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boboliu · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-4B

57.8K

downloads

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GTE-ModernColBERT-v1

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lightonai · Embeddings · from Alibaba-NLP/gte-modernbert-base

56.6K

downloads

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JobBERT-v3

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TechWolf · Embeddings · from sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2

56.2K

downloads

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minicoil-v1

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Qdrant · Embeddings · from jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en

55.7K

downloads

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zembed-1

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zeroentropy · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen3-4B

54.9K

downloads

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JobBERT-v2

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TechWolf · Embeddings · from sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2

51.8K

downloads

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KURE-v1

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nlpai-lab · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-m3

47.5K

downloads

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nomic-embed-text-v2-moe-distilled-high-quality

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cnmoro · Embeddings · from nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v2-moe

46.5K

downloads

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ViDense

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namdp-ptit · Embeddings · from FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-large

43.2K

downloads

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headline-similarity

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davanstrien · Embeddings · from dbmdz/bert-base-historic-multilingual-cased

42.6K

downloads

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bge-base-en-v1.5-onnx-Q

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Qdrant · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5

38.2K

downloads

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bge-m3-korean

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upskyy · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-m3

37.4K

downloads

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multilingual-e5-small

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Xenova · Embeddings · from intfloat/multilingual-e5-small

36.4K

downloads

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fine-tuned-column-mapper

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abdur197 · Embeddings · from sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

35.3K

downloads

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modernbert-embed-base_finetune_512

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freelawproject · Embeddings · from nomic-ai/modernbert-embed-base

34.7K

downloads

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Arabic-SBERT-100K

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akhooli · Embeddings · from aubmindlab/bert-base-arabertv02

34.6K

downloads

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rubert-tiny-turbo

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sergeyzh · Embeddings · from cointegrated/rubert-tiny2

28.2K

downloads

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Giga-Embeddings-instruct-4bit-nf4

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iMiW · Embeddings · from ai-sage/Giga-Embeddings-instruct

26.7K

downloads

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jina-embeddings-v3-separation-distilled

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CISCai · Embeddings · from jinaai/jina-embeddings-v3

26.6K

downloads

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colbert-xm

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antoinelouis · Embeddings · from facebook/xmod-base

26.4K

downloads

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German-RAG-UAE-LARGE-V1-TRIPLES-MERGED-HESSIAN-AI

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avemio · Embeddings · from merge:avemio/German-RAG-UAE-LARGE-V1-TRIPLES-HESSIAN-AI

24.6K

downloads

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jina-embeddings-v2-small-en

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Xenova · Embeddings · from jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en

23.8K

downloads

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bioclinical-modernbert-base-embeddings

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NeuML · Embeddings · from thomas-sounack/BioClinical-ModernBERT-base

23.8K

downloads

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modernbert-embed-base_finetune_8192

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freelawproject · Embeddings · from nomic-ai/modernbert-embed-base

23.7K

downloads

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arabic-english-bge-m3

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sayed0am · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-m3

23.7K

downloads

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bge-m3

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Xenova · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-m3

23.6K

downloads

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cde-small-v2

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jxm · Embeddings · from answerdotai/ModernBERT-base

23.3K

downloads

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embeddinggemma-300m-ONNX

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onnx-community · Embeddings · from google/embeddinggemma-300m

23.1K

downloads

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bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5

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datasocietyco · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5

22.6K

downloads

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gte-small

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Xenova · Embeddings · from thenlper/gte-small

20.6K

downloads

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snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0-gguf

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Casual-Autopsy · Embeddings · from Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0

20.2K

downloads

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KoE5

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nlpai-lab · Embeddings · from intfloat/multilingual-e5-large

19.1K

downloads

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jina-code-embeddings-0.5b

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jinaai · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B

19.1K

downloads

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gme-Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct

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Alibaba-NLP · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct

18.9K

downloads

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snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0-ko

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dragonkue · Embeddings · from Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0

18.8K

downloads

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jina-embeddings-v2-base-en

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Xenova · Embeddings · from jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-en

18.6K

downloads

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GLuCoSE-base-ja

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pkshatech · Embeddings · from studio-ousia/luke-japanese-base-lite

18.6K

downloads

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gte-multilingual-base

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onnx-community · Embeddings · from Alibaba-NLP/gte-multilingual-base

18.3K

downloads

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Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-250-v1-GGUF

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ENOSYS · Embeddings · from unsloth/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B

17.9K

downloads

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halong_embedding

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contextboxai · Embeddings · from intfloat/multilingual-e5-base

17.0K

downloads

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Qodo-Embed-1-1.5B

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Qodo · Embeddings · from Alibaba-NLP/gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct

15.9K

downloads

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sft-sql-embedding

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s2593817 · Embeddings · from sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2

14.3K

downloads

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embeddinggemma-300m-medical

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sentence-transformers · Embeddings · from google/embeddinggemma-300m

14.1K

downloads

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Clinical_ModernBERT

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Simonlee711 · Embeddings · from answerdotai/ModernBERT-base

13.7K

downloads

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distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v2

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Xenova · Embeddings · from sentence-transformers/distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v2

13.6K

downloads

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all-mpnet-base-v2

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Xenova · Embeddings · from sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2

13.2K

downloads

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blair-roberta-large

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hyp1231 · Embeddings · from FacebookAI/roberta-base

12.6K

downloads

80new

gte-small

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OrcaDB · Embeddings · from Supabase/gte-small

12.6K

downloads

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robbert-2022-dutch-sentence-transformers

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NetherlandsForensicInstitute · Embeddings · from DTAI-KULeuven/robbert-2022-dutch-base

12.5K

downloads

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Octen-Embedding-0.6B

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Octen · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B

12.1K

downloads

83new

vietnamese-sbert-v3

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Cloyne · Embeddings · from keepitreal/vietnamese-sbert

12.1K

downloads

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All-MiniLM-L6-v2-Embedding-GGUF

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second-state · Embeddings · from sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

11.9K

downloads

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Qwen3-Voice-Embedding-12Hz-1.7B

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marksverdhei · Embeddings · from adapter:Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base

11.2K

downloads

86new

Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-ONNX

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onnx-community · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B

9.8K

downloads

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KaLM-embedding-multilingual-mini-instruct-v2.5

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KaLM-Embedding · Embeddings · from HIT-TMG/KaLM-embedding-multilingual-mini-instruct-v2

9.7K

downloads

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bge-m3-Q8_0-GGUF

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ggml-org · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-m3

9.6K

downloads

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financial-rag-matryoshka

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rbhatia46 · Embeddings · from Alibaba-NLP/gte-large-en-v1.5

9.6K

downloads

90new

Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B

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unsloth · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-Base

9.2K

downloads

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nomic-embed-text-v1

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Xenova · Embeddings · from nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1

9.0K

downloads

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bge-small-zh-v1.5

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Xenova · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-small-zh-v1.5

8.9K

downloads

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inf-retriever-v1-1.5b

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infly · Embeddings · from Alibaba-NLP/gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct

8.7K

downloads

94new

Style-Embedding

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AnnaWegmann · Embeddings · from FacebookAI/roberta-base

8.2K

downloads

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Octen-Embedding-8B

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Octen · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B

8.1K

downloads

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embeddinggemma-300m-GGUF

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unsloth · Embeddings · from google/embeddinggemma-300m

7.6K

downloads

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xcodec-hubert-general

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hf-audio · Embeddings · from ZhenYe234/hubert_base_general_audio

7.5K

downloads

98new

splade-tiny

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rasyosef · Embeddings · from prajjwal1/bert-tiny

7.5K

downloads

99new

Penguin-Encoder

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tencent · Embeddings · from Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B

7.5K

downloads

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bge-large-en-v1.5

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Xenova · Embeddings · from BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5

7.3K

downloads

About the Top Embedding Fine-Tunes Leaderboard

Best fine-tuned embedding models for semantic search, RAG, and vector similarity. This leaderboard tracks the top 100 fine-tuned models ranked by downloads, with daily snapshots to monitor how the rankings evolve over time.

Unlike HuggingFace's default model hub, Fine-Tune Catalog filters out pure quantizations and format conversions (repos that simply re-package a model as GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ, or EXL2 without any new training). Fine-tuned models published in quantized formats are still included — what matters is whether new training happened, not the output format.

Methodology

Rankings are based on total all-time download counts from HuggingFace. Downloads reflect real-world adoption — models and datasets that people actually use in production and research, not just stars or hype.

Rankings are snapshotted daily at 6:00 AM UTC. Position changes shown on the leaderboard compare the current snapshot to the previous day's snapshot. All data is sourced directly from the HuggingFace Hub API and processed through our classification pipeline, which uses tag analysis, model card parsing, and naming pattern detection to identify genuine fine-tunes.

Data Sources

  • HuggingFace Hub API — download counts, likes, trending scores, model metadata, and README/model cards
  • Model card parsing — training datasets, training method (LoRA, DPO, SFT, etc.), framework, hardware, and hyperparameters extracted from README files
  • Tag classification — fine-tune detection via `base_model:finetune:*` and `base_model:quantized:*` HuggingFace tags, plus naming pattern analysis

Who Is This For?

This leaderboard is designed for developers working in specific AI domains who need the best model for their particular use case — whether that's language understanding, computer vision, image generation, voice synthesis, or semantic search.

Whether you're a beginner exploring what's possible with fine-tuned AI models or an experienced ML engineer looking for the best starting point for your next project, these rankings give you a data-driven way to find the highest quality models without having to wade through thousands of quantizations, format conversions, and abandoned repositories on HuggingFace.

Update Schedule

This leaderboard was last updated on April 3, 2026. Rankings are refreshed daily with the latest download counts, likes, and trending data from HuggingFace. Historical snapshots are preserved to track trends over time — you can see which models are gaining traction and which are losing momentum.