Mursit-Embed-Qwen3-4B-TR is a Turkish embedding model converted from decoder-only architecture through decoder-to-encoder conversion. The model is based on Mecellem-Qwen3-4B-TR (continual pre-trained decoder model) and adapted for Turkish legal retrieval tasks.
Model Type: CLM-Embedding (Decoder-to-Encoder Converted) Parameters: 4B Base Model: newmindai/Mecellem-Qwen3-4B-TR Embedding Dimension: 2,560 Max Sequence Length: 1,024 tokens
Architecture Conversion
The model underwent decoder-to-encoder conversion with the following modifications:
Removal of Language Modeling Head: The autoregressive lm_head layer was removed
Bidirectional Attention: Causal attention mask replaced with bidirectional attention
Mean Pooling: Fixed-size representations extracted using mean pooling over all token positions
Identity Projection: Projection layer initialized to maintain 2,560-dimensional embedding output
Training Details
Post-training for Embeddings:
Dataset: MS MARCO-TR (920,106 triplets)
Loss Function: CachedGISTEmbedLoss with BGE-M3 guide model (568M parameters)
System: MareNostrum 5 ACC partition at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Node Configuration: Single node with 4× NVIDIA Hopper H100 64GB GPUs, 80 CPU cores, 512GB DDR5 memory
GPU Interconnect: NVLink for intra-node GPU communication (4 GPUs connected via NVLink)
Performance on MTEB-Turkish Benchmark
The following visualization shows the model's performance compared to other Turkish language models:
Model Performance Comparison
Model Performance Comparison: Legal Score vs. MTEB Score. CLM-Embedding models (orange squares) show competitive performance on general Turkish tasks.
This model was evaluated on the comprehensive MTEB-Turkish benchmark, which includes 17 tasks across 5 task types. The benchmark evaluates models on general Turkish NLP tasks as well as domain-specific legal retrieval tasks.
Comprehensive Benchmark Results
The following table presents comprehensive evaluation results across all models evaluated on the MTEB-Turkish benchmark. This model's results are highlighted in italics.
Model
MTEB
Legal
Cls.
Clus.
Pair
Ret.
STS
Cont.
Reg.
Case
Params
Type
embeddinggemma-300m
65.42
50.63
77.74
45.05
80.02
55.06
69.22
83.97
39.56
28.38
307M
Emb.
bge-m3
62.87
51.16
75.35
35.86
78.88
54.42
69.83
86.08
38.09
29.3
567M
Emb.
Mursit-Embed-Qwen3-1.7B-TR
56.84
34.76
68.46
42.22
59.67
50.1
63.77
70.22
17.94
16.11
1.7B
CLM-E.
Mursit-Large-TR-Retrieval
56.87
46.56
67.72
41.15
59.78
51.69
64.01
81.78
32.67
25.24
403M
Emb.
Mursit-Base-TR-Retrieval
55.86
47.52
66.25
39.75
61.31
50.07
61.9
80.4
34.1
28.07
155M
Emb.
Mursit-Embed-Qwen3-4B-TR
53.65
37.0
67.29
36.68
58.36
51.12
54.77
69.25
24.21
17.56
4B
CLM-E.
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bert-base-turkish-uncased
46.23
24.94
68.05
33.81
60.44
32.01
36.85
52.47
12.05
10.29
110M
MLM
turkish-large-bert-cased
45.3
19.12
67.43
34.24
60.11
28.68
36.04
47.57
5.93
3.85
337M
MLM
bert-base-turkish-cased
45.17
24.41
66.39
35.28
60.05
30.52
33.62
54.03
10.13
9.07
110M
MLM
BERTurk-Legal
42.02
32.63
60.61
26.24
59.51
25.8
37.94
61.4
15.51
20.99
184M
MLM
Mursit-Large
41.75
23.71
62.95
25.34
58.04
27.4
35.01
42.74
11.29
17.1
403M
MLM
turkish-base-bert-uncased
44.68
27.58
66.22
30.23
58.84
31.4
36.74
56.6
13.39
12.74
110M
MLM
Mursit-Base
40.23
17.93
59.78
25.48
58.65
20.82
36.45
36.0
7.4
10.4
155M
MLM
mmBERT-base
39.65
12.15
61.84
26.77
59.25
15.83
34.56
34.45
1.33
0.68
306M
MLM
TabiBERT
37.77
11.5
59.63
25.75
58.19
14.96
30.32
32.02
1.86
0.63
148M
MLM
ModernBERT-base
23.8
2.99
39.06
2.01
53.95
2.1
21.91
7.92
0.62
0.43
149M
MLM
ModernBERT-large
23.74
2.44
39.44
3.9
53.73
1.8
19.85
6.12
0.62
0.59
394M
MLM
Column abbreviations: MTEB = mean performance across task types; Legal = weighted average of Contracts, Regulation, Caselaw; Classification = accuracy on Turkish classification tasks; Clustering = V-measure on clustering tasks; Pair Classification = average precision on pair classification tasks like NLI; Retrieval = nDCG@10 on information retrieval tasks; Semantic Textual Similarity = Spearman correlation; Contracts = nDCG@10 on legal contract retrieval; Regulation = nDCG@10 on regulatory text retrieval; Caselaw = nDCG@10 on case law retrieval; Number of Parameters = number of model parameters; Model Type = model type (Embedding, CLM-Embedding, Masked Language Model). Bold values indicate the highest score in each column.
Key Findings:
The model achieves competitive MTEB Score (53.65) on general Turkish tasks
Shows improved Legal Score (37.00) compared to the 1.7B variant, indicating that larger models benefit from decoder-to-encoder conversion
| Semantic Textual Similarity | Spearman Correlation | 54.77 |
Legal Domain Performance
Task
Metric
Score
Contracts Retrieval
nDCG@10
69.25
Regulation Retrieval
nDCG@10
24.21
Caselaw Retrieval
nDCG@10
17.56
Note: This larger model shows even greater degradation compared to the 1.7B variant, suggesting that increased model capacity alone does not compensate for the architectural mismatch between autoregressive generation and bidirectional embedding tasks.
Usage
Installation
pip install sentence-transformers
Basic Usage
python
1from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
23# Load model4model = SentenceTransformer("newmindai/Mursit-Embed-Qwen3-4B-TR")56# Encode sentences7sentences =[8"Türk hukuk sistemi medeni hukuk geleneğine dayanır",9"Anayasa Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin temel hukuk belgesidir"10]1112embeddings = model.encode(sentences)13print(embeddings.shape)# (2, 2560)
ONNX Model Inference
This script demonstrates how to use the ONNX model from Hugging Face for text embedding generation.
Exporting Model to ONNX
To export the model to ONNX format, use the optimum-cli command:
1from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
2import onnxruntime as ort
3from transformers import AutoTokenizer
4import os
56repo_id ="newmindai/Mursit-Embed-Qwen3-4B-TR"78local_dir = snapshot_download(9 repo_id=repo_id,10 allow_patterns=["model.onnx","model.onnx_data"]11)1213onnx_path = os.path.join(local_dir,"model.onnx")1415tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo_id)1617sess = ort.InferenceSession(18 onnx_path,19 providers=["CUDAExecutionProvider","CPUExecutionProvider"]20)2122texts =["This is a test"]23inputs = tokenizer(24 texts,25 padding=True,26 truncation=True,27 return_tensors="np"28)2930ort_inputs ={k: v for k, v in inputs.items()}3132# Inference33outputs = sess.run(None, ort_inputs)3435# Sentence embedding (last output)36sentence_embedding = outputs[-1]3738print("Shape:", sentence_embedding.shape)39print("Providers:", sess.get_providers())40print(sentence_embedding[0][:10])
Features
Automatic GPU/CPU selection: Uses CUDA if available, otherwise falls back to CPU
Hugging Face integration: Downloads model files directly from Hugging Face Hub
Simple API: Easy-to-use interface for text embedding generation
Use Cases
Semantic search in Turkish documents
Information retrieval tasks
Text similarity and matching
Question answering systems
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking through project etur46 with access to the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer, hosted by Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain. MareNostrum 5 is owned by EuroHPC JU and operated by BSC. We are grateful to the BSC support team for their assistance with job scheduling, environment configuration, and technical guidance throughout the project.
The numerical calculations reported in this work were fully/partially performed at TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, High Performance and Grid Computing Center (TRUBA resources). The authors gratefully acknowledge the know-how provided by the MINERVA Support for expert guidance and collaboration opportunities in HPC-AI integration.
References
If you use this model, please cite our paper:
bibtex
1@article{mecellem2026,
2 title={Mecellem Models: Turkish Models Trained from Scratch and Continually Pre-trained for the Legal Domain},
3 author={Uğur, Özgür and Göksu, Mahmut and Çimen, Mahmut and Yılmaz, Musa and Şavirdi, Esra and Demir, Alp Talha and Güllüce, Rumeysa and Çetin, İclal and Sağbaş, Ömer Can},
4 journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.16018},
5 year={2026},
6 month={January},
7 url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16018},
8 doi={10.48550/arXiv.2601.16018},
9 eprint={2601.16018},
10 archivePrefix={arXiv},
11 primaryClass={cs.CL}
12}
Base Model References
bibtex
1@article{qwen2024,
2 title={Qwen3: A Large Language Model Series},
3 author={Qwen Team},
4 journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00000},
5 year={2024}
6}