GTE: A small text model that outperforms bigger ones with smart multi-stage training
Meet GTE, a general text model that learns by comparing examples in several rounds.
It was trained on a huge mix of texts so it can understand many kinds of writing, and it gets better each training step.
Even though the model is modest in size at 110M parameters, it often beats much larger systems, yes it really does, and that surprised the team.
The trick is a simple idea: train in stages and show many varied examples so the model learns useful patterns.
That lets GTE be better than larger models on big benchmarks, and it also works on programming code by treating it like regular text.
So without extra tuning per language, it finds the right matches for code and text.
This means you get a fast, flexible embedding tool that can help search, match, and find meaning across text and code.
It feels small but packs a punch, and it could change how people build simple, smart search tools.
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Towards General Text Embeddings with Multi-stage Contrastive Learning
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