Qwen3-Embedding-isl-16384

Qwen3-Embedding-isl-16384

This model is a 23.25% smaller version of Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B optimized for Icelandic language via vocabulary size reduction using the trimming method.
This trimmed model should perform similarly to the original model with only 16,384 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

Mining Dataset Statistics

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

Usage

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SentenceTransformer("alphaedge-ai/Qwen3-Embedding-isl-16384")
# Run inference with queries and documents
query = "My query in Icelandic"
documents = [
    "Chunk in Icelandic",
    "Chunk in Icelandic",
    "Chunk in Icelandic",
]
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

Qwen3 Embedding

@article{qwen3embedding,
  title={Qwen3 Embedding: Advancing Text Embedding and Reranking Through Foundation Models},
  author={Zhang, Yanzhao and Li, Mingxin and Long, Dingkun and Zhang, Xin and Lin, Huan and Yang, Baosong and Xie, Pengjun and Yang, An and Liu, Dayiheng and Lin, Junyang and Huang, Fei and Zhou, Jingren},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.05176},
  year={2025}
}

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}, 
}