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sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2sentence-similaritycross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2text-rankingBAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5feature-extractionsentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2sentence-similaritygoogle/electra-base-discriminatorgeneral AIgoogle-bert/bert-base-uncasedfill-maskBAAI/bge-m3sentence-similarityQwen/Qwen3-0.6Btext-generationgoogle-t5/t5-smalltranslationamazon/chronos-2time-series-forecastingComfy-Org/MiniMax-H3general AIopenai/clip-vit-base-patch32zero-shot-image-classificationtimm/mobilenetv3_small_100.lamb_in1kimage-classificationsentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2sentence-similarityBAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3text-classificationFacebookAI/xlm-roberta-basefill-maskjonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-japaneseautomatic-speech-recognitionQwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instructimage-text-to-textopenai-community/gpt2text-generationnomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5sentence-similarity

Signal	NovaSearch/stella_en_1.5B_v5
Task	sentence-similarity
Parameters	1.5B
Minimum VRAM	6 GB
Recommended VRAM	12 GB
License	mit
Commercial signal	LIKELY_ALLOWED
Downloads	17,839
Likes	266
Source	Hugging Face ↗