BGE Large EN V1.5

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BAAI BGE Large EN V1.5 is a state-of-the-art English dense retrieval embedding model with 1024-dimensional embeddings and 512 token sequence length. Achieves 64.23 average on MTEB leaderboard across 56 tasks with 54.29 on retrieval. Pre-trained with RetroMAE and fine-tuned on large-scale contrastive learning data. V1.5 improvements include better similarity distribution and flexible usage without query instructions. Ideal for semantic search, document retrieval, re-ranking pipelines, and sentence similarity tasks. Production-ready with 3.4M+ downloads/month.

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