Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-W4A16-G128

boboliu/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-W4A16-G128

Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-W4A16-G128 is a feature extraction model from boboliu. Use it when you need embeddings to search or compare text. It is set up for sentence-transformers. The card lists the license as apache-2.0.

GPTQ Quantized https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B with THUIR/T2Ranking and m-a-p/COIG-CQIA for calibration set.

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Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-W4A16-G128

GPTQ Quantized https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B with THUIR/T2Ranking and m-a-p/COIG-CQIA for calibration set.

What's the benefit?

VRAM Usage: 3228M -> 2124M

What's the cost?

~1.69% lost in C-MTEB.

C-MTEB	Param.	Mean(Task)	Mean(Type)	Class.	Clust.	Pair Class.	Rerank.	Retr.	STS
multilingual-e5-large-instruct	0.6B	58.08	58.24	69.80	48.23	64.52	57.45	63.65	45.81
bge-multilingual-gemma2	9B	67.64	75.31	59.30	86.67	68.28	73.73	55.19	-
gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct	1.5B	67.12	67.79	72.53	54.61	79.5	68.21	71.86	60.05
gte-Qwen2-7B-instruct	7.6B	71.62	72.19	75.77	66.06	81.16	69.24	75.70	65.20
ritrieve_zh_v1	0.3B	72.71	73.85	76.88	66.5	85.98	72.86	76.97	63.92
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B	0.6B	66.33	67.45	71.40	68.74	76.42	62.58	71.03	54.52
This Model	0.6B-W4A16	65.21	66.30	71.36	66.12	74.96	62.63	69.10	53.65

How to use it?

pip install compressed-tensors optimum and auto-gptq / gptqmodel, then goto the official usage guide.

Task: Feature Extraction
Library: sentence-transformers
Type: qwen3
License: apache-2.0
Created: Jun 6, 2025
Updated: Jun 7, 2025