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    HFText EmbeddingsApache-2.0

    snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0

    by Snowflake

    Multilingual text embeddings with Matryoshka truncation for cheaper retrieval

    Identifiers
    Model ID
    Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0
    Feature URI
    mixpeek://text_extractor@v1/snowflake_arctic_embed_l_v2

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    Single-tenant

    Mixpeek has no managed extractor for this model. On a single-tenant deployment you upload the weights and a custom plugin serves them next to the rest of your pipeline.

    Overview

    Arctic Embed 2.0 (Large) is Snowflake's open retrieval embedding model. Its headline trait is that it is multilingual without giving up English quality: it stays competitive on English MTEB retrieval while adding strong cross-lingual retrieval (MIRACL, CLEF) in one model, so you don't run a separate encoder per language.

    Its second trait is practical: it is trained with Matryoshka Representation Learning, so a full 1024-dim vector can be truncated to 256 dims with only a few points of retrieval loss. That is a 4× cut in vector storage and memory with no re-embedding: you store the short vector and search it directly. On Mixpeek, Arctic Embed 2.0 is a strong default for multilingual document and transcript search where storage budget matters.

    Architecture

    ~568M-parameter multilingual encoder (GTE-multilingual base) producing 1024-dim embeddings with an 8192-token context window. Trained with Matryoshka Representation Learning so the first 256 / 512 dimensions are themselves usable embeddings, plus contrastive training with hard negatives and a multilingual + English data mix tuned to avoid the usual multilingual-vs-English quality tradeoff. Mean pooling over token states; compare with cosine.

    Mixpeek SDK Integration

    // No extractor parameter takes a Hugging Face model id (checked against
    // GET /v1/discovery/extractors, which returns 13), so snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 runs
    // on your side and the output is upserted through POST
    // /v1/namespaces/{namespace_id}/documents/upsert. On Enterprise the other
    // path is to upload the weights instead: POST /v1/namespaces/{id}/models
    // accepts the huggingface format and a custom plugin loads them.
    const res = await fetch(
      "https://api.mixpeek.com/v1/namespaces/ns_your_namespace/documents/upsert",
      {
        method: "POST",
        headers: {
          Authorization: "Bearer API_KEY",
          "Content-Type": "application/json",
        },
        body: JSON.stringify({
          collection_id: "col_your_collection",
          documents: [
            {
              document_id: "asset-00412",
              // The vector name has to match a vector index on the collection.
              vectors: { "text-embedding": yourVector },
              payload: { source_key: "archive/2026/asset-00412" },
            },
          ],
        }),
      },
    );
    
    // Managed alternative, if this exact model is not the requirement:
    // text_extractor@v1 runs intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct
    // (1024-d) over a bucket, with no inference of your own.

    Capabilities

    • Strong English retrieval AND broad multilingual / cross-lingual retrieval in one model
    • Matryoshka dims: truncate 1024 → 256 for ~4× smaller vectors, minimal recall loss
    • 8192-token context for long documents
    • Open weights (Apache-2.0), self-hostable
    • Drop-in 1024-dim dense vectors for any vector store

    Use Cases on Mixpeek

    Multilingual RAG: index documents in many languages and query in any of them with one encoder
    Storage-constrained search: truncate to 256 dims to fit far more vectors per GB without re-embedding
    Cross-lingual retrieval: an English query surfaces relevant non-English passages, and vice versa
    Long-document transcript and report search within the 8192-token window

    Benchmarks

    DatasetMetricScoreSource
    MTEB Retrieval (English)nDCG@10-Competitive with strong English-only models of similar size; see report for the full table.
    MIRACL (multilingual)nDCG@10-Strong multilingual retrieval without an English-quality regression: the model's core claim.

    Specification

    FrameworkHF
    OrganizationSnowflake
    FeatureText Embeddings
    Output1024-dim vector
    Modalitiesdocument, audio
    RetrieverText Similarity
    Parameters568M
    LicenseApache-2.0
    Downloads/mo1.03M

    Research Paper

    Arctic-Embed 2.0: Multilingual Retrieval Without Compromise

    arxiv.org

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