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Loading needs no remote code, and the GitHub examples' trust_remote_code=True has nothing to run. Apache 2.0 has been named since upload, and the LICENSE file added on 7 July 2025 kept the same terms. The model returns vectors, which limits what a hijacked pipeline gains. 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The GGUF repository had 42,417 (https://huggingface.co/api/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B)", "The card says the model ranked first on the MTEB multilingual leaderboard on 5 June 2025 with a mean task score of 70.58, and gives 75.22 on MTEB English v2 and 73.84 on C-MTEB. These are Alibaba's numbers, not our measurement (https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B)", "Ollama's library has it as qwen3-embedding:8b, 4.7 GB at q4_K_M, with q8_0 and fp16 tags (https://ollama.com/library/qwen3-embedding/tags)", "Scaleway and DeepInfra are live for it in Hugging Face's provider mapping, and OpenRouter lists Nebius, DeepInfra and SiliconFlow endpoints (https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models/qwen/qwen3-embedding-8b/endpoints)", "Every GGUF file was replaced in place on 14 and 15 July 2025, each 576 bytes larger, under commits titled only Upload folder using huggingface_hub, with no note on the card (https://huggingface.co/api/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B-GGUF/commits/main)", "vLLM's docs say it refuses a dimensions request unless config.json marks the model as Matryoshka, and Qwen's config.json doesn't, so shortened vectors in vLLM need --hf-overrides '{\"is_matryoshka\": true}' (https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/v0.32.0/docs/models/pooling_models/embed.md)" ], "area": "models", "details": [ { "label": "Surface graded", "value": "The open weights at huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B and Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B-GGUF, read from the model cards, the files and their metadata, the configs, the Apache 2.0 licence, Qwen's GitHub repository and technical report and the runtimes' own code and docs on 21 October 2026. Nothing was downloaded or run. No hosted Qwen API for this model is listed here" }, { "label": "Model", "value": "A 36-layer dense decoder trained from Qwen3-8B-Base, with 7.57B parameters by Hugging Face's count (8B on the card). Text in, one vector out, taken from the last token's hidden state and L2-normalised. Up to 4,096 dimensions, and Matryoshka training lets you keep the first 32 to 4,096" }, { "label": "Input and output", "value": "Queries take a one-sentence task instruction in the form Instruct then the task, a newline, then Query and the text. Documents go in with no instruction. The tokenizer appends the end-of-text token itself since 6 June 2025, padding goes on the left, and the card says leaving the instruction off typically costs 1 to 5 per cent in retrieval. Sentence Transformers ships the web-search instruction as the query prompt and cosine as the similarity" }, { "label": "Languages", "value": "Over 100 languages per the card. 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The base, Qwen3-8B-Base, is also Apache 2.0" }, { "label": "Runtimes", "value": "Released support in Transformers (qwen3, from 4.51.0), Sentence Transformers, vLLM (Qwen3ForCausalLM in its embedding table), SGLang (with --is-embedding), llama.cpp (the qwen3 architecture, with --pooling last) and Ollama's library. The card also gives Text Embeddings Inference 1.7.2 commands for GPU and CPU" }, { "label": "Context", "value": "32K tokens per the card and the technical report. config.json keeps the base model's 40,960 positions, which Ollama's library shows as 40K, and the card's Transformers example truncates at 8,192" }, { "label": "Hardware", "value": "The card points to the blog for hardware requirements, and the blog gives none. 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The domain registration date is carried from the RDAP check made for qwen3-8-27b on 20 October 2026.", "Nothing is hosted, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "No changelog. The commit history's messages are uploads and README updates, and the July 2025 GGUF re-upload doesn't say what changed.", "qwen.ai answers /.well-known/security.txt with its web app, so there is no security.txt. 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