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granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 970a6f4Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model. Gguf weights, 972 MB in all. Published by lmstudio-community under Apache-2.0.

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FactsParamsnot statedSize972 MBFormatsggufTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get lmstudio-community/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF
# manifest sha256 8ad69f68fbaa… · 972 MB · 6 files
$ fw verify ./granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF lmstudio-community/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF
From sourceHosted (signed)lmstudio-community/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUFLast check: 2026-11-15 05:20 UTC
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Size
972 MB
Weights
214 MB (smallest of 4 GGUF variants)
Parameters
not stated
Formats
gguf
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
6, each with a sha256
Publisher
lmstudio-community
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.granite
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Base model: ibm-granite/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual

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💫 Community Model> granite embedding 278m multilingual by Ibm-Granite#

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Model creator: ibm-granite

Original model: granite-embedding-278m-multilingual

GGUF quantization: provided by bartowski based on llama.cpp release b4381

Technical Details#

Embedding model with vector size 768

Max length of 512 tokens

278 million parameters for high quality fast embedding

Supported Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and Chinese.

Special thanks#

🙏 Special thanks to Georgi Gerganov and the whole team working on llama.cpp for making all of this possible.

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Files

6 files · 972 MBWeights 214 MB (smallest of 4 GGUF variants). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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.gitattributes1.85 KB55d49247bf01f3811148e859ebcadb9ed2acd365796abcc5c60f32b81808f81e
README.md16.7 KB713d1750080cfbdd9cbea383779173d67c88d6286cdd9d3308dff58ac1802b4c
granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-Q3_K_L.gguf214 MBb72efa133cd463a9367fb33fd4f708c9968530cf6654a3f0a2fb59aa68f4f993
granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-Q4_K_M.gguf219 MB48985001cb8a2e05539e0c7b52064efbcae732ff08fd1fe391534d30cbd8d942
granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-Q6_K.gguf236 MBa1ef1eec2c50415808f3c3f3613d392a2bf084735731442c30f471ed6c66a38b
granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-Q8_0.gguf303 MBb8b3ebc5f98d179493adf28e6e9e16508766ed85b72cedfbd9bc1540c4905a23
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
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970a6f4b23 pinned now2026-11-15 05:20 UTC6 files · 972 MB

Use it

$ fw get lmstudio-community/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF
# manifest sha256 8ad69f68fbaa… · 972 MB · 6 files
$ fw verify ./granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF lmstudio-community/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF.json --dir ./granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF $ python3 fw.py verify ./granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF ./lmstudio-community__granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF --revision 970a6f4b2352a49669c36cc67b77f26e7c047311 --local-dir ./granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF
llama.cppDownload one GGUF variant (granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-Q3_K_L, 214 MB), then serve it.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF --include "granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-Q3_K_L*" --local-dir ./granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF $ llama-server -m ./granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-Q3_K_L.gguf
OllamaMake an Ollama model from the downloaded file.
$ printf 'FROM ./granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-Q3_K_L.gguf\n' > Modelfile $ ollama create granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-gguf -f Modelfile
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License

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Apache License 2.0
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Apache-2.0
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Permissive
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Provenance

From: lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.graniteSubject: granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUFDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 970a6f4Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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lmstudio-community/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF
Pinned commit
970a6f4b2352a49669c36cc67b77f26e7c047311
Manifest
granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
8ad69f68fbaa49c84ac7d1b1757f6f0524b9a1e82e4e67d5369c54325fb2a8cc
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 05:20 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

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Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
Source
huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual-GGUF

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