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Saidzoda-CA-EmbeddingGemma-300M: One Small Embedder for Tajik, Kazakh, Uzbek and Kyrgyz
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers fine-tuned EmbeddingGemma-300M to create a single embedding model serving Tajik, Kazakh, Uzbek, and Kyrgyz, improving retrieval accuracy by 14-26 percentage points.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building search or retrieval systems for Central Asian languages where multilingual embedders are unavailable or resource-constrained.
- Watch out
- The model still trails larger 560M multilingual embedders by 9-10 points on some languages, and performance on English and Russian declined slightly during adaptation.
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