cstr/multilingual-e5-base-GGUF

multilingual-e5-base GGUF

GGUF format of intfloat/multilingual-e5-base for use with CrispEmbed.

Multilingual E5 Base. 100+ languages, 768-dimensional mean-pooled. Use prefix: "query: " / "passage: ".

Files

File	Quantization	Size
multilingual-e5-base-q4_k.gguf	Q4_K	247 MB
multilingual-e5-base-q8_0.gguf	Q8_0	287 MB
multilingual-e5-base.gguf	F32	1066 MB

Quick Start

# Download
huggingface-cli download cstr/multilingual-e5-base-GGUF multilingual-e5-base-q4_k.gguf --local-dir .

# Run with CrispEmbed
./crispembed -m multilingual-e5-base-q4_k.gguf "Hello world"

# Or with auto-download
./crispembed -m multilingual-e5-base "Hello world"

Model Details

Property	Value
Architecture	XLM-R
Parameters	278M
Embedding Dimension	768
Layers	12
Pooling	mean
Tokenizer	SentencePiece
Base Model	intfloat/multilingual-e5-base

Verification

Verified bit-identical to HuggingFace sentence-transformers (cosine similarity >= 0.999 on test texts).

Usage with CrispEmbed

CrispEmbed is a lightweight C/C++ text embedding inference engine using ggml. No Python runtime, no ONNX. Supports BERT, XLM-R, Qwen3, and Gemma3 architectures.

# Build CrispEmbed
git clone https://github.com/CrispStrobe/CrispEmbed
cd CrispEmbed
cmake -S . -B build && cmake --build build -j

# Encode
./build/crispembed -m multilingual-e5-base-q4_k.gguf "query text"

# Server mode
./build/crispembed-server -m multilingual-e5-base-q4_k.gguf --port 8080
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/v1/embeddings \
    -d '{"input": ["Hello world"], "model": "multilingual-e5-base"}'

Credits

• Original model: intfloat/multilingual-e5-base
• Inference engine: CrispEmbed (ggml-based)
• Conversion: convert-bert-embed-to-gguf.py