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bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5

by Data Society datasocietyco/bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5

bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 is an open-weight model for sentence similarity from Data Society. It has 109M parameters and a 512-token context. At 16-bit it needs about 0.3 GB of GPU memory, which fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest prices in the SAVRN Index. It draws 4.1M downloads a month.

This is a sentence-transformers model finetuned from BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5. It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768-dimensional dense vector space and can be used for semantic textual similarity, semantic search, paraphrase mining, text classification…

Parameters109M
Context512
Weights438.0 MB
License—
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads4.1M

Runs On

What it takes to serve bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 (109M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 0.2 GB 0.3 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.1 GB 0.1 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.1 GB 0.1 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Oct 16, 2026.

bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 on every accelerator the SAVRN Index prices, at every precision

SAVRN's Notes on bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5

The name is the use case: Data Society's fine-tune of BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5 aimed at course recommendation, turning each input into a 768-dimensional vector for similarity search. The arithmetic is trivial — 109M parameters, 0.3 GB at 16-bit, 0.1 GB at 4-bit, a 438 MB download — so the one MI300X the Index lists at $1.85 an hour is wasted on it alone; run it beside your serving stack. The 512-token context still applies, so long course descriptions get chunked before embedding.

Treat the license as the gating item: the record lists none for this fine-tune, which makes commercial use a conversation with the publisher, not a checkbox. The disclosed training is a light touch — 24 steps at batch size 16, learning rate 3e-06 — so validate the delta against the base on your own catalog before shipping; a fine-tune this small can be a wash. Published January 2025 under sentence-transformers, derived from bge-base-en-v1.5, and drawing 4.1M downloads a month.

Model Card

This is a sentence-transformers model finetuned from BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5. It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768-dimensional dense vector space and can be used for semantic textual similarity, semantic search, paraphrase mining, text classification, clustering, and more. First install the Sentence Transformers library: Then you can load this model and run inference. Approximate statistics based on the first 45 samples: Approximate statistics based on the first 5 samples: - evalstrategy: steps - perdevicetrainbatchsize: 16 - perdeviceevalbatchsize: 16 - learningrate: 3e-06 - maxsteps: 24 - warmupratio: 0.1 - batchsampler: noduplicates - overwriteoutputdir: False - dopredict: False…

Excerpt from the card by Data Society.

Configuration

Architecture
BertModel
Context length (tokens)
512
Layers
12
Hidden size
768
Feed-forward size
3,072
Attention heads
12
Vocabulary size
30,522
Stored precision
float32
Model type
bert

Identity and Version

Repository
datasocietyco/bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5
Publisher
Data Society
Task
Sentence similarity
Modality
Text
Library
sentence-transformers
Parameters
109M parameters
Languages
Not stated by the source
Revision
2b069eed51ce7bc2beeaa7e3eea1a01c48ef3d29
First published
2025-01-09
Last updated
2025-01-09

Files and Weights

12 files, 438.9 MB in total. The weights are 1 file totalling 438.0 MB in safetensors.

Weights1 file · 438.0 MB
Configuration6 files · 2.3 KB
Tokenizer3 files · 944.4 KB
Documentation1 file · 33.0 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights438.0 MB ee42e89c1cb2
1_Pooling/config.jsonConfiguration296 B —
config.jsonConfiguration740 B —
config_sentence_transformers.jsonConfiguration195 B —
modules.jsonConfiguration349 B —
sentence_bert_config.jsonConfiguration52 B —
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration695 B —
README.mdDocumentation33.0 KB —
.gitattributesRepository1.5 KB —
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer711.6 KB —
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer1.2 KB —
vocab.txtTokenizer231.5 KB —

License and Download

License
Not stated by the source
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
438.0 MB
Download from Data Society

Released by Data Society through its official repository on Hugging Face.

Built From

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published438.0 MB
16-bit0.2 GB
8-bit0.1 GB
4-bit0.1 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

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Questions About bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5

How much GPU memory does bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 need?

About 0.3 GB at 16-bit and 0.1 GB at 4-bit: the weights (109M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

What is bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5's context length?

512 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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