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BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5

BAAI released bge-small-en-v1.5, a 130 MB English embedding model under the MIT license, designed for local retrieval and agent memory. The model is available on Hugging Bay with external metadata and pending security scan, and can run on CPU, Apple Silicon, or small consumer GPUs.

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BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
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BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5: Small BGE English embedding model that is practical for local retrieval and agent memory. License: mit. external huggingface metadata. Scan: pending.

  • License

  • mit

  • Size

  • 130.0 MB

  • Demand

  • 500 upstream downloads

  • Trust

  • Needs review 0/100

  • Trusted download

  • External metadata; mirror requestable

  • Run fit

  • Easy local embedding fit: CPU, Apple Silicon, or a small consumer GPU is usually enough for smoke tests

  • Files

  • 0 hosted / 1 total

  • Scan status

  • pending

  • Hosting status

  • external

  • Upstream

  • BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5

  • Declared license

  • mit

  • Pipeline

  • feature-extraction

  • Library

  • SentenceTransformers

  • Task categories

  • feature-extraction

About this artifact #

BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 is included in Hugging Bay's compact resilience fallback for high-demand open AI artifacts. Live Postgres metadata, hosted files, hashes, and reviews take precedence whenever available.

Trusted download #

External metadata; mirror requestable. Use upstream for now or add demand for a reviewed Hugging Bay mirror.

  • Hosted files
  • 0 of 1
  • Reviewed peer-assisted fallbacks
  • 0
  • Download plan
[Download-plan JSON](/api/artifacts/hf-model-baai-bge-small-en-v1-5/download-plan)- Trust bundle
[Trust-bundle JSON](/api/trust-bundles/hf-model-baai-bge-small-en-v1-5)- Review summary
[Review-summary JSON](/api/artifacts/hf-model-baai-bge-small-en-v1-5/review-summary)- Distribution
[Reviewed peer-fallback JSON](/api/artifacts/hf-model-baai-bge-small-en-v1-5/distribution)

Can I run this? #

Easy local embedding fit. CPU, Apple Silicon, or a small consumer GPU is usually enough for smoke tests. Start with the local kit, verify hashes, then run a small inference or embedding check before production use.

  • Estimated footprint
  • 130.0 MB
  • Suggested runners
  • Transformers
  • Runtime files
  • 0
  • Local kit

Local run kit Run-fit warnings: No runtime weight file is indexed yet.; Hugging Bay is showing metadata only until reviewed hosted files exist.

- License: pass - mit
- Provenance: pass - BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
- Scan: warn - pending
- Hosted files: warn - external metadata only
- Signed manifest: fail - not final yet
- Community: warn - no reviews yet
- Benchmarks: warn - no benchmark evidence

Machine-readable card #

Open interactive artifact page

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