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    HFText Embeddingsapache-2.0

    Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B

    by Qwen

    #1 multimodal embedding model: unified text, image, screenshot, and video retrieval

    1.4Mdl/month
    473likes
    8.1Bparams
    Identifiers
    Model ID
    Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B
    Feature URI
    mixpeek://text_extractor@v1/qwen3_vl_embed_8b_v1

    Overview

    Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B is a unified multimodal embedding model that projects text, images, screenshots, and video into a shared vector space. It achieves state-of-the-art results on MMEB-V2 (77.9 overall), the most comprehensive multimodal retrieval benchmark, and scores 83.3 on visual document retrieval, making it the strongest general-purpose multimodal embedding available.

    Built on the Qwen3-VL vision-language backbone, it supports Matryoshka flexible dimensionality (64 to 4096), 32K context windows, and 30+ languages. On Mixpeek, it powers cross-modal retrieval where a text query can match images, screenshots, video frames, or documents in a single vector search pass.

    Architecture

    Qwen3-VL vision-language backbone (8B parameters) with shared projection heads for text, image, and video modalities. Uses Matryoshka Representation Learning for flexible embedding dimensions from 64 to 4096. Supports interleaved text-image input sequences up to 32K tokens.

    Mixpeek SDK Integration

    // No extractor parameter takes a Hugging Face model id (checked against
    // GET /v1/discovery/extractors, which returns 13), so Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B 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: { "image-embedding": yourVector },
              payload: { source_key: "archive/2026/asset-00412" },
            },
          ],
        }),
      },
    );
    
    // Managed alternative, if this exact model is not the requirement:
    // image_extractor@v1 runs google/siglip-base-patch16-224
    // (768-d) over a bucket, with no inference of your own.

    Capabilities

    • Unified embeddings across text, images, video, and screenshots
    • Matryoshka flexible dimensionality (64-4096)
    • 32K context window for long documents and multi-frame video
    • 30+ language support including CJK
    • #1 on MMEB-V2 multimodal retrieval benchmark

    Use Cases on Mixpeek

    Cross-modal search: find images by text description or text by image query
    Visual document retrieval: search PDFs, slides, and screenshots by content
    Video retrieval: embed and search video frames alongside transcripts
    Multilingual multimodal search across mixed-language media libraries

    Benchmarks

    DatasetMetricScoreSource
    MMEB-V2 (overall)Score77.9Qwen, 2026: MMEB-V2 Leaderboard
    MMEB-V2 (visual doc retrieval)Score83.3Qwen, 2026: MMEB-V2 Leaderboard
    MTEB MultilingualScore70.58Qwen, 2026: Model Card

    Performance

    Input SizeVariable (text, 224px-1344px images, multi-frame video)
    Embedding Dim64-4096 (Matryoshka)
    GPU Latency~45ms / item (A100)
    GPU Throughput~22 items/sec (A100)
    GPU Memory~16 GB

    Specification

    FrameworkHF
    OrganizationQwen
    FeatureText Embeddings
    Output1024-dim vector
    Modalitiesdocument, audio
    RetrieverText Similarity
    Parameters8.1B
    Licenseapache-2.0
    Downloads/mo1.4M
    Likes473

    Research Paper

    Qwen3-Embedding: Advancing Text and Multimodal Retrieval

    arxiv.org

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