This model is a 60.00% smaller version of ibm-granite/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual optimized for French language via vocabulary size reduction using the trimming method.
This trimmed model should perform similarly to the original model with only 32,768 tokens and a much smaller memory footprint. However, it may not perform well for other languages as tokens not commonly used in the selected languages were removed from the vocabulary.

Model Statistics

Metric	Original	Trimmed	Reduction
Vocabulary size	250,002 tokens	32,768 tokens	86.89%
Model size	278,043,648 params	111,207,936 params	60.00%

Mining Dataset Statistics

Number of texts used for mining: 200,000 texts
Dataset: lbourdois/fineweb-2-trimming

Usage

python

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SentenceTransformer("alphaedge-ai/granite-embedding-278m-fra-32768")
# Run inference with queries and documents
query = "My query in French"
documents = [
    "Chunk in French",
    "Chunk in French",
    "Chunk in French",
]
query_embeddings = model.encode_query(query)
document_embeddings = model.encode_document(documents)
print(query_embeddings.shape, document_embeddings.shape)
# Compute similarities to determine a ranking
similarities = model.similarity(query_embeddings, document_embeddings)
print(similarities)

Citations

Granite Embedding Models

@misc{awasthy2025graniteembeddingmodels,
      title={Granite Embedding Models}, 
      author={Parul Awasthy and Aashka Trivedi and Yulong Li and Mihaela Bornea and David Cox and Abraham Daniels and Martin Franz and Gabe Goodhart and Bhavani Iyer and Vishwajeet Kumar and Luis Lastras and Scott McCarley and Rudra Murthy and Vignesh P and Sara Rosenthal and Salim Roukos and Jaydeep Sen and Sukriti Sharma and Avirup Sil and Kate Soule and Arafat Sultan and Radu Florian},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2502.20204},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.IR},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20204}, 
}

Trimming blog post

@misc{hf_blogpost_trimming,
      title={Introduction to Trimming}, 
      author={Loïck BOURDOIS and Tom AARSEN and Bram VANROY and Christopher AKIKI and Woojun JUNG and Manuel ROMERO and Prithiv SAKTHI},
      year={2026},
      url={https://huggingface.co/blog/lbourdois/introduction-to-trimming}, 
}