freedom-intelligence/inventory/catalog/nomic-ai__nomic-embed-text-v1.5__candidate.yaml
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id: nomic-ai__nomic-embed-text-v1.5__candidate
status: verified
name: nomic-embed-text-v1.5
org: nomic-ai
source:
kind: huggingface
url: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
revision: main
model_card_url: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
project_url: https://www.nomic.ai/
license:
spdx: Apache-2.0
url: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
allows_offline_retention: true
allows_local_ops: true
allows_fine_tune: true
notes: ""
profile:
summary: "Lightweight open text embedder for A/B with BGE-M3 and long-context retrieval experiments."
original_source: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
use_cases:
- "Secondary / A/B embedding path vs BGE-M3"
- "English-heavy RAG with low resource cost"
- "Long-context embedding experiments (per card capabilities)"
- "Portable laptop offline search indexes"
sweet_spots:
- "Small footprint Apache embed"
- "Fast iteration when re-embedding corpora often"
- "Nomic tooling and Matryoshka-style dimension flexibility (per card)"
not_ideal_for:
- "Sole multilingual production embed without A/B (prefer BGE-M3 default)"
- "Generation tasks"
- "Code-only retrieval (prefer code embed if held)"
capability_notes: >
Compact Nomic text embedding model. Held as runnable dual-path to avoid
single-vendor embed lock-in and to re-eval retrieval quality cheaply.
Prefer current v2 text card at pull if clearly better.
swot:
strengths:
- "Tiny, Apache-2.0, easy to re-run indexes"
- "Diversifies embed dependency next to BGE-M3"
weaknesses:
- "May lose multilingual or domain A/B vs BGE-M3"
- "Version churn (v1.5 vs v2) needs careful pin"
opportunities:
- "Dimension-reduced storage for large corpora"
- "Hybrid ensembles (BGE + nomic signals)"
threats:
- "Becomes redundant if one embed wins all lab evals"
- "Upstream rename/deprecation of v1.5"
artifacts:
- path: "model.safetensors"
sha256: "9e7d262b1fe5ea350782829496efa831901b77486bbde1cea54a4c822d010d5c"
bytes: 546938168
size:
total_bytes: 547958078
total_human: "0.51 GiB"
hardware_class:
min_vram_gb_q4: 1
min_vram_gb_fp16: 1
notes: "CPU-friendly"
axes: [B]
priority: high
collection:
approved_by: "bernd"
approved_at: "2026-07-28"
downloaded_at: "2026-07-28"
downloaded_by: "grok"
storage_path: "/mnt/d/vault/coulomb/freedom-intelligence/models/nomic-ai__nomic-embed-text-v1.5/main"
brief_refs:
- research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md
reason: "P0/R lightweight embed for A/B with BGE-M3; long-context text retrieval."
tags: [tier-r, embedding, rag]
companions:
- BAAI__bge-m3__candidate
notes: "If v2 text is preferred at collection time, update id/url and supersede this candidate."
history:
- at: "2026-07-24"
event: nominated
by: baseline-survey
detail: "P0 recommendation from initial deep research."
- at: "2026-07-24"
event: profile_swot_added
by: grok
detail: "schema 0.2 profile + SWOT."
- at: "2026-07-28"
event: approved
by: bernd
detail: "R light embed"
- at: "2026-07-28"
event: collected
by: grok
detail: "snapshot_download weights-only to VAULT"
- at: "2026-07-28"
event: verified
by: grok
detail: "MANIFEST.json sha256 for weight files"