elephant-embeddings-v1-text-small is the text embedding model in the Agentic Intelligence Lab Elephant Embeddings V1 family.
This ModelScope release is maintained by agentic-intelligence-lab to make Elephant embedding models easier to download and deploy in mainland China. It mirrors and renames the upstream HuggingFace model llm-semantic-router/eggon-embed under a consistent Elephant model namespace.
Positioning
This model is a multilingual long-context text embedding model for agent-native retrieval and semantic matching. It is designed for systems where embeddings are on the runtime hot path:
agent memory recall
knowledge retrieval and RAG
tool, skill, and route matching
long-horizon state search
multilingual semantic indexing
clustering and deduplication
The model combines 32K context, ModernBERT encoder architecture, and 2D Matryoshka training so one embedding space can serve multiple latency, storage, and quality budgets.
Model at a glance
Item
Value
Family
Elephant Embeddings V1
Maintainer
Agentic Intelligence Lab
Model type
Text embedding model
Modalities
Text
Languages
Multilingual
Architecture
ModernBERT encoder with YaRN scaling
Parameters
~307M
Hidden size
768
Layers
22
Context length
32,768 tokens
Pooling
Mean pooling
Similarity
Cosine
Matryoshka dimensions
768, 512, 256, 128, 64
Upstream source
llm-semantic-router/eggon-embed
License
Apache 2.0
Why it fits agentic workloads
Agentic systems call embedding models repeatedly: before retrieval, during routing, while matching tools, when searching memory, and when compressing or reranking state. This model is optimized for that operating pattern rather than for a single offline benchmark.
Key advantages:
One semantic space across the stack: routing, retrieval, memory lookup, and semantic matching can share one vector space.
Budget-adaptive vectors: truncate full 768-dimensional vectors to 256d, 128d, or 64d for cheaper indexes and faster candidate generation.
Long-context representation: encode larger notes, traces, tool descriptions, and document chunks before aggressive chunking is required.
Practical deployment size: a 307M-class encoder is easier to host than much larger embedding models when inference is frequent.
Recommended use cases
Scenario
Recommended dimension
Notes
Broad route matching
64d or 128d
Cheap candidate generation over large route/tool sets
1from modelscope import snapshot_download
2from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
34repo_id ="agentic-intelligence-lab/elephant-embeddings-v1-text-small"5local_dir = snapshot_download(repo_id)67model = SentenceTransformer(local_dir)89texts =[10"Find tool descriptions related to browser automation.",11"检索和用户历史偏好相关的记忆。",12"Retrieve notes about deployment failures in staging.",13]1415embeddings = model.encode(texts, normalize_embeddings=True)16print(embeddings.shape)# (3, 768)
Matryoshka truncation
python
1import torch.nn.functional as F
2from modelscope import snapshot_download
3from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
45local_dir = snapshot_download("agentic-intelligence-lab/elephant-embeddings-v1-text-small")6model = SentenceTransformer(local_dir)78embeddings = model.encode(texts, convert_to_tensor=True, normalize_embeddings=True)910# Balanced retrieval tier11embeddings_256d = F.normalize(embeddings[:,:256], p=2, dim=1)1213# Low-cost routing or large memory-bank tier14embeddings_64d = F.normalize(embeddings[:,:64], p=2, dim=1)
Evaluation snapshot
Metric
Score
MTEB mean, 24 tasks
61.4
STS Benchmark
80.5
Dimension retention
99% @ 256d, 98% @ 64d
Layer speedup
3.3× @ 6L, 5.8× @ 3L
Long-context retrieval R@1, 4K tokens
68.8%
Long-context retrieval R@10, 4K tokens
81.2%
These results make the model useful for systems that must balance quality, latency, vector size, and deployment simplicity.
Files
File
Description
model.safetensors
Model weights
config.json
ModernBERT configuration
tokenizer.json / tokenizer_config.json
Tokenizer assets
modules.json / 1_Pooling/config.json
Sentence Transformers packaging
README.md
This model card
Lineage
This ModelScope package is published by agentic-intelligence-lab as part of the Elephant model release line. It mirrors the upstream HuggingFace model llm-semantic-router/eggon-embed and keeps the model artifacts unchanged except for the repository naming and model card presentation.
Limitations
Full 768-dimensional embeddings are recommended for important final-stage retrieval decisions.
Aggressive dimension or layer reduction trades quality for speed and storage efficiency.
Very long inputs are supported, but they still increase compute and memory cost.
The model is optimized for retrieval and semantic similarity, not text generation.