paraphrase multilingual MiniLM L12 v2

Providersentence-transformers
Categorysentence-similarity
Licenseapache-2.0
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Overview

The paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 is a lightweight, high-performance transformer model optimized for generating semantic embeddings across 50+ languages. Unlike standard LLMs, this model is purpose-built for sentence similarity tasks, mapping diverse languages into a shared vector space where semantically equivalent phrases cluster together regardless of the source language. For developers, this makes it an ideal engine for building cross-lingual search, automated FAQ matching, or clustering tools without the latency overhead of massive models. It integrates seamlessly with the sentence-transformers library, offering a pragmatic balance between inference speed and retrieval accuracy for production-grade RAG pipelines.

Highlights

  • Supports semantic similarity across 50+ different languages
  • Low-latency inference ideal for real-time production environments
  • Optimized for vector search and cross-lingual clustering
  • Easy integration via the sentence-transformers Python library
  • Permissive Apache-2.0 license for commercial deployment

Usage

Install
# Install Hugging Face transformers
pip install transformers torch
SDK Usage
# Load model with transformers
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2")

Hugging Face Download

We recommend downloading the model via the Hugging Face CLI or Hub SDK.

Guidance:Before downloading, install huggingface_hub with:

Guidance
pip install -U huggingface_hub

CLI Download

Download the full repository

Download the full repository
huggingface-cli download sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. config.json into ./dir)

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. config.json into ./dir)
huggingface-cli download sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 config.json --local-dir ./dir

See the official docs for more CLI options

SDK Download

SDK Download
# 模型下载
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2

Model files are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub — download directly via HF CLI / SDK / Git, not through this site.

PyTorch / Transformers Usage

Install Transformers

Install Transformers
pip install -U transformers torch

Load the model and run inference

Load the model and run inference
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2')
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2')

Model Download

We recommend downloading the model via the ModelScope CLI or SDK.

Guidance:Before downloading, install ModelScope with:

Guidance
pip install modelscope

CLI Download

Download the full repository

Download the full repository
modelscope download --model sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. README.md into ./dir)

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. README.md into ./dir)
modelscope download --model sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 README.md --local_dir ./dir

See the docs for more CLI options

SDK Download

SDK Download
# 模型下载
from modelscope import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download
git lfs install
git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2.git

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2.git

ModelScope 模型页直接下载模型文件;无需将模型文件放在本站服务器。

Notebook Quickstart

Install the ModelScope library

Install the ModelScope library
pip install "modelscope[audio,cv,nlp,multi-modal,science]" -f https://modelscope.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/releases/repo.html

Load the model and run inference

Load the model and run inference
from modelscope.pipelines import pipeline
from modelscope.utils.constant import Tasks

p = pipeline('text-generation', 'sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2')

Full Documentation

来源: HuggingFace

---
language:

  • multilingual

  • ar

  • bg

  • ca

  • cs

  • da

  • de

  • el

  • en

  • es

  • et

  • fa

  • fi

  • fr

  • gl

  • gu

  • he

  • hi

  • hr

  • hu

  • hy

  • id

  • it

  • ja

  • ka

  • ko

  • ku

  • lt

  • lv

  • mk

  • mn

  • mr

  • ms

  • my

  • nb

  • nl

  • pl

  • pt

  • ro

  • ru

  • sk

  • sl

  • sq

  • sr

  • sv

  • th

  • tr

  • uk

  • ur

  • vi

license: apache-2.0
library_name: sentence-transformers
tags:
  • sentence-transformers

  • feature-extraction

  • sentence-similarity

  • transformers

language_bcp47:
  • fr-ca

  • pt-br

  • zh-cn

  • zh-tw

pipeline_tag: sentence-similarity
---

sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2

This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 384 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.

Usage (Sentence-Transformers)

Using this model becomes easy when you have sentence-transformers installed:

code
pip install -U sentence-transformers

Then you can use the model like this:

python
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
sentences = ["This is an example sentence", "Each sentence is converted"]

model = SentenceTransformer('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Usage (HuggingFace Transformers)

Without sentence-transformers, you can use the model like this: First, you pass your input through the transformer model, then you have to apply the right pooling-operation on-top of the contextualized word embeddings.
python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
import torch

Mean Pooling - Take attention mask into account for correct averaging

def mean_pooling(model_output, attention_mask): token_embeddings = model_output[0] #First element of model_output contains all token embeddings input_mask_expanded = attention_mask.unsqueeze(-1).expand(token_embeddings.size()).float() return torch.sum(token_embeddings * input_mask_expanded, 1) / torch.clamp(input_mask_expanded.sum(1), min=1e-9)

Sentences we want sentence embeddings for

sentences = ['This is an example sentence', 'Each sentence is converted']

Load model from HuggingFace Hub

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2') model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2')

Tokenize sentences

encoded_input = tokenizer(sentences, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt')

Compute token embeddings

with torch.no_grad(): model_output = model(**encoded_input)

Perform pooling. In this case, max pooling.

sentence_embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])

print("Sentence embeddings:")
print(sentence_embeddings)

Full Model Architecture

code
SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 128, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: BertModel 
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 384, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False})
)

Citing & Authors

This model was trained by sentence-transformers.

If you find this model helpful, feel free to cite our publication Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks:
``bibtex
@inproceedings{reimers-2019-sentence-bert,
title = "Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks",
author = "Reimers, Nils and Gurevych, Iryna",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = "11",
year = "2019",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10084",
}
``

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