---
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
base_model: intfloat/multilingual-e5-small
library_name: quanfire-multilingual-embedding
pipeline_tag: sentence-similarity
tags:
  - sentence-embeddings
  - multilingual
  - indic
  - cross-lingual-retrieval
  - lora
  - e5
language:
  - hi
  - bn
  - gu
  - kn
  - ml
  - mr
  - sa
  - ta
  - te
  - ur
  - en
  - fr
  - de
  - es
  - it
  - pt
  - ru
  - ar
  - tr
  - zh
  - ja
  - ko
  - th
  - vi
  - id
---

# QuanFire Multilingual Embedding — `prod-a70s30-fr`

A production multilingual sentence-embedding adapter, Indic-first and trained
**only on openly-licensed, commercially-clean data**. It is a LoRA adaptation
over a frozen [`intfloat/multilingual-e5-small`](https://huggingface.co/intfloat/multilingual-e5-small)
(MIT) base — a 3.4 MB adapter, 384-dimensional normalized vectors, `max_length` 256.

This is **not** a from-scratch foundation model. The contribution is the framework,
the Indic strength, and training data whose licence you can actually ship on.

- **Framework & code:** [github.com/Quanfire-AI/quanfire-multilingual-embedding](https://github.com/Quanfire-AI/quanfire-multilingual-embedding) (Apache-2.0)
- **PyPI:** `pip install quanfire-multilingual-embedding`
- **Weights licence:** CC BY-SA 4.0 (see *Licence & provenance* below)

## What it covers

- **10 Indic languages** — Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi,
  Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.
- **15 global languages** stay competitive — English, French, German, Spanish,
  Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai,
  Vietnamese, Indonesian.

## Results (held-out, scored on CUDA)

| Instrument | base e5-small | e5 v2 | **prod-a70s30-fr** |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global FLORES-200 cross-lingual, all-pairs recall | 0.9268 | 0.9488 | **0.9762** |
| French retrieval | 0.961 | 0.977 | **0.990** |
| Indic in-domain, non-Hindi X↔Y recall@1 | 0.7875 | 0.8964 | **0.8994** |
| Hindi-pivot mixed-pool recall@10 | 0.7495 | 0.8852 | **0.8914** |
| FLORES non-Hindi recall@1 | 0.9847 | 0.9609 | **0.9785** |

Global all-pairs beats both the base model and e5 v2; French is recovered with no
language regressed against the base. Indic instruments beat v2 across the board and
stay neutral within sampling noise versus the prior internal Indic model.

## Usage

The adapter runs through the QuanFire framework (it applies the LoRA over the base
and produces normalized embeddings). Install the package and pull the weights:

```bash
pip install 'quanfire-multilingual-embedding[neural]'

# download this model's files into a local directory
hf download quanfire-ai/multilingual-embedding --local-dir multilingual-embedding
```

**As an HTTP embeddings service (recommended for applications).** This exposes an
OpenAI-compatible `POST /v1/embeddings` endpoint, so your app stores the vectors in
its own database or vector index:

```bash
qfme serve --adapter multilingual-embedding --port 8000
```

```bash
curl -s localhost:8000/v1/embeddings \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"input": ["नमस्ते दुनिया", "hello world", "bonjour le monde"]}'
# -> {"object":"list","data":[{"index":0,"embedding":[...384 floats...]}, ...],
#     "model":"multilingual-embedding","usage":{...},"prefix_applied":null}
```

This model is symmetric (empty prefixes), so `input_type` is not required; pass
`"input_type": "query"` or `"passage"` only for asymmetric models.

**In-process, as a search pipeline:**

```python
from multilingual_embedding.pipelines.search import SemanticSearchPipeline

pipe = SemanticSearchPipeline.from_adapter("multilingual-embedding")
pipe.index(["नमस्ते दुनिया", "hello world", "bonjour le monde", "Bonjour tout le monde"])
for hit in pipe.search("a french greeting", top_k=3):
    print(hit.rank, round(hit.score, 3), hit.text)
```

Vectors are L2-normalized `float32` (dimension 384), so cosine similarity is a dot
product and they drop straight into any vector database or ANN index.

## Licence & provenance

**Weights: CC BY-SA 4.0.** Use them commercially and redistribute them freely,
provided you keep attribution and license derivative weights under the same
share-alike terms. The share-alike floor comes from the training data, not
preference — every source is openly licensed and documented:

| Source | Role in the blend | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia langlink-mined pairs | article side (~70%) | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| BPCC-Mined bitext (10 languages) | sentence side (~30%) | CC0 |
| itihasa (Sanskrit) | sentence side | Apache-2.0 |
| Tatoeba (en↔fr) | French-recovery fold | CC BY |
| `intfloat/multilingual-e5-small` | base checkpoint | MIT |

CC BY-SA is the strongest obligation in the mix and so sets the weights licence;
CC0, Apache-2.0, CC BY and MIT are all compatible and add only attribution. The net
effect: the weights are **commercially usable and redistributable** — you can ship
them in a paid product and also release them.

The framework source code is Apache-2.0 (separate from these weights).

## Limitations

- A LoRA adapter over a published checkpoint — not an independently pretrained model.
- Cross-lingual retrieval is only as strong as the training corpus was parallel; on
  out-of-domain FLORES non-Hindi the base model can edge it, an expected effect of
  in-domain specialization.
- Exact (brute-force cosine) search is the intended regime up to ~10⁵–10⁶ vectors;
  beyond that, add your own ANN index.

## Citation

```
QuanFire Multilingual Embedding (prod-a70s30-fr).
QuanFire, 2026. https://github.com/Quanfire-AI/quanfire-multilingual-embedding
```