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FlagEmbedding is a Python-based tool focused on developing components for embedding generation and enhancing retrieval systems for use in retrieval-augmented language models.
Good fit when
- If you need to integrate semantic search capabilities within your application, particularly where sentence-level embeddings are critical for finding semantically similar text.
- When working with large corpora of text data needing fine-grained similarity scores between sentences or phrases for advanced retrieval tasks.
Avoid when
- Avoid using FlagEmbedding if you require real-time or extremely low-latency text matching, as the process may involve significant computational overhead and latency.
- Do not adopt this tool if your application is already heavily invested in a different ecosystem where integration costs would outweigh benefits, unless specific retrieval-augmented capabilities are a亟
Observed Jul 11, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts
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Overview
The FlagEmbedding repository focuses on developing tools for embeddings, information retrieval, and retrieval-augmented generative models.
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- Languages
- python
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README
Install from sources:
Clone the repository and install
git clone https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding.git
cd FlagEmbedding
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# If you do not need to finetune the models, you can install the package without the finetune dependency:
pip install .
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# If you want to finetune the models, install the package with the finetune dependency:
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# pip install .[finetune]
For development in editable mode:
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# If you do not need to finetune the models, you can install the package without the finetune dependency:
pip install -e .
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## Quick Start
First, load one of the BGE embedding model:
from FlagEmbedding import FlagAutoModel
model = FlagAutoModel.from_finetuned('BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5', query_instruction_for_retrieval="Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages:", use_fp16=True)
Then, feed some sentences to the model and get their embeddings:
sentences_1 = ["I love NLP", "I love machine learning"] sentences_2 = ["I love BGE", "I love text retrieval"] embeddings_1 = model.encode(sentences_1) embeddings_2 = model.encode(sentences_2)
Once we get the embeddings, we can compute similarity by inner product:
similarity = embeddings_1 @ embeddings_2.T print(similarity)
For more details, you can refer to [embedder inference](./examples/inference/embedder), [reranker inference](./examples/inference/reranker), [embedder finetune](./examples/finetune/embedder), [reranker fintune](./examples/finetune/reranker), [evaluation](./examples/evaluation).
If you're unfamiliar with any of related concepts, please check out the [tutorial](./Tutorials/). If it's not there, let us know.
For more interesting topics related to BGE, take a look at [research](./research).
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## License
FlagEmbedding is licensed under the [MIT License](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/blob/master/LICENSE).
<p align="center">
<sub>This work is supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project (No. 2022ZD0116300).</sub>
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