Overview

The multilingual-e5-large-instruct is a high-performance text embedding model designed for cross-lingual semantic search and retrieval tasks. Unlike standard embedding models, this version is instruction-tuned, allowing developers to specify the intent of the embedding (e.g., 'query' vs 'document') to significantly improve retrieval accuracy. It maps text from dozens of languages into a shared vector space, making it ideal for building RAG pipelines, semantic caches, or clustering tools where the input language varies but the semantic meaning remains constant. Integration is straightforward via Hugging Face Transformers or Sentence-Transformers, offering a competitive alternative to proprietary embedding APIs while maintaining MIT license flexibility for commercial deployment.

Highlights

Instruction-tuned for superior asymmetric retrieval accuracy
Strong cross-lingual alignment across multiple global languages
MIT licensed for flexible commercial integration
Optimized for RAG and semantic search pipelines

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("intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct")

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

huggingface-cli download intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct

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

huggingface-cli download intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct config.json --local-dir ./dir

See the official docs for more CLI options

SDK Download

# 模型下载
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download

git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS

GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct

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

pip install -U transformers torch

Load the model and run inference

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct')
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct')

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

modelscope download --model intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct

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

modelscope download --model intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct README.md --local_dir ./dir

See the docs for more CLI options

SDK Download

# 模型下载
from modelscope import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download

git lfs install
git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct.git

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS

GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct.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

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

from modelscope.pipelines import pipeline
from modelscope.utils.constant import Tasks

p = pipeline('text-generation', 'intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct')

Full Documentation

来源: HuggingFace

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tags:

mteb

sentence-transformers

transformers

model-index:

name: multilingual-e5-large-instruct

results:
- task:
type: Classification
dataset:
type: mteb/amazon_counterfactual
name: MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)
config: en
split: test
revision: e8379541af4e31359cca9fbcf4b00f2671dba205
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 76.23880597014924
- type: ap
value: 39.07351965022687
- type: f1
value: 70.04836733862683
- task:
type: Classification
dataset:
type: mteb/amazon_counterfactual
name: MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (de)
config: de
split: test
revision: e8379541af4e31359cca9fbcf4b00f2671dba205
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 66.71306209850107
- type: ap
value: 79.01499914759529
- type: f1
value: 64.81951817560703
- task:
type: Classification
dataset:
type: mteb/amazon_counterfactual
name: MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext)
config: en-ext
split: test
revision: e8379541af4e31359cca9fbcf4b00f2671dba205
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 73.85307346326837
- type: ap
value: 22.447519885878737
- type: f1
value: 61.0162730745633
- task:
type: Classification
dataset:
type: mteb/amazon_counterfactual
name: MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (ja)
config: ja
split: test
revision: e8379541af4e31359cca9fbcf4b00f2671dba205
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 76.04925053533191
- type: ap
value: 23.44983217128922
- type: f1
value: 62.5723230907759
- task:
type: Classification
dataset:
type: mteb/amazon_polarity
name: MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification
config: default
split: test
revision: e2d317d38cd51312af73b3d32a06d1a08b442046
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 96.28742500000001
- type: ap
value: 94.8449918887462
- type: f1
value: 96.28680923610432
- task:
type: Classification
dataset:
type: mteb/amazon_reviews_multi
name: MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)
config: en
split: test
revision: 1399c76144fd37290681b995c656ef9b2e06e26d
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 56.716
- type: f1
value: 55.76510398266401
- task:
type: Classification
dataset:
type: mteb/amazon_reviews_multi
name: MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (de)
config: de
split: test
revision: 1399c76144fd37290681b995c656ef9b2e06e26d
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 52.99999999999999
- type: f1
value: 52.00829994765178
- task:
type: Classification
dataset:
type: mteb/amazon_reviews_multi
name: MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (es)
config: es
split: test
revision: 1399c76144fd37290681b995c656ef9b2e06e26d
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 48.806000000000004
- type: f1
value: 48.082345914983634
- task:
type: Classification
dataset:
type: mteb/amazon_reviews_multi
name: MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (fr)
config: fr
split: test
revision: 1399c76144fd37290681b995c656ef9b2e06e26d
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 48.507999999999996
- type: f1
value: 47.68752844642045
- task:
type: Classification
dataset:
type: mteb/amazon_reviews_multi
name: MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (ja)
config: ja
split: test
revision: 1399c76144fd37290681b995c656ef9b2e06e26d
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 47.709999999999994
- type: f1
value: 47.05870376637181
- task:
type: Classification
dataset:
type: mteb/amazon_reviews_multi
name: MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (zh)
config: zh
split: test
revision: 1399c76144fd37290681b995c656ef9b2e06e26d
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 44.662000000000006
- type: f1
value: 43.42371965372771
- task:
type: Retrieval
dataset:
type: arguana
name: MTEB ArguAna
config: default
split: test
revision: None
metrics:
- type: map_at_1
value: 31.721
- type: map_at_10
value: 49.221
- type: map_at_100
value: 49.884
- type: map_at_1000
value: 49.888
- type: map_at_3
value: 44.31
- type: map_at_5
value: 47.276
- type: mrr_at_1
value: 32.432
- type: mrr_at_10
value: 49.5
- type: mrr_at_100
value: 50.163000000000004
- type: mrr_at_1000
value: 50.166
- type: mrr_at_3
value: 44.618
- type: mrr_at_5
value: 47.541
- type: ndcg_at_1
value: 31.721
- type: ndcg_at_10
value: 58.384
- type: ndcg_at_100
value: 61.111000000000004
- type: ndcg_at_1000
value: 61.187999999999995
- type: ndcg_at_3
value: 48.386
- type: ndcg_at_5
value: 53.708999999999996
- type: precision_at_1
value: 31.721
- type: precision_at_10
value: 8.741
- type: precision_at_100
value: 0.991
- type: precision_at_1000
value: 0.1
- type: precision_at_3
value: 20.057
- type: precision_at_5
value: 14.609
- type: recall_at_1
value: 31.721
- type: recall_at_10
value: 87.411
- type: recall_at_100
value: 99.075
- type: recall_at_1000
value: 99.644
- type: recall_at_3
value: 60.171
- type: recall_at_5
value: 73.044
- task:
type: Clustering
dataset:
type: mteb/arxiv-clustering-p2p
name: MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P
config: default
split: test
revision: a122ad7f3f0291bf49cc6f4d32aa80929df69d5d
metrics:
- type: v_measure
value: 46.40419580759799
- task:
type: Clustering
dataset:
type: mteb/arxiv-clustering-s2s
name: MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S
config: default
split: test
revision: f910caf1a6075f7329cdf8c1a6135696f37dbd53
metrics:
- type: v_measure
value: 40.48593255007969
- task:
type: Reranking
dataset:
type: mteb/askubuntudupquestions-reranking
name: MTEB AskUbuntuDupQuestions
config: default
split: test
revision: 2000358ca161889fa9c082cb41daa8dcfb161a54
metrics:
- type: map
value: 63.889179122289995
- type: mrr
value: 77.61146286769556
- task:
type: STS
dataset:
type: mteb/biosses-sts
name: MTEB BIOSSES
config: default
split: test
revision: d3fb88f8f02e40887cd149695127462bbcf29b4a
metrics:
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value: 88.15075203727929
- type: cos_sim_spearman
value: 86.9622224570873
- type: euclidean_pearson
value: 86.70473853624121
- type: euclidean_spearman
value: 86.9622224570873
- type: manhattan_pearson
value: 86.21089380980065
- type: manhattan_spearman
value: 86.75318154937008
- task:
type: BitextMining
dataset:
type: mteb/bucc-bitext-mining
name: MTEB BUCC (de-en)
config: de-en
split: test
revision: d51519689f32196a32af33b075a01d0e7c51e252
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 99.65553235908142
- type: f1
value: 99.60681976339595
- type: precision
value: 99.58246346555325
- type: recall
value: 99.65553235908142
- task:
type: BitextMining
dataset:
type: mteb/bucc-bitext-mining
name: MTEB BUCC (fr-en)
config: fr-en
split: test
revision: d51519689f32196a32af33b075a01d0e7c51e252
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 99.26260180497468
- type: f1
value: 99.14520507740848
- type: precision
value: 99.08650671362535
- type: recall
value: 99.26260180497468
- task:
type: BitextMini

multilingual e5 large instruct

Overview

Highlights

Usage

Hugging Face Download

CLI Download

SDK Download

Git Download

PyTorch / Transformers Usage

Model Download

CLI Download

SDK Download

Git Download

Notebook Quickstart

Full Documentation