AnalysisOpinion / analysisRetrieval, RAG & Search · Large Language Models1 source · Oct 15, 2026

nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16 · Hugging Face

Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16 is a versatile embedding model developed by NVIDIA for multimodal and multilingual question-answering retrieval.

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Key points

  • The model can embed a document page in the form of an image, text, or combined image–text input.
  • For text retrieval, the model was evaluated across 34 languages: English, Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hinglish, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
  • The embedding model is a bi-encoder that supports context in textual format (e.g. the query or the OCR text of a page or a section of a document) or the image of a document page.
  • The model generates dense vector embeddings from text or image inputs, enabling multimodal retrieval, semantic search, and (agentic) RAG workflows.

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  • [1]nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16 · Hugging Face
    r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 15, 11:22 PM
    Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16 is a versatile embedding model developed by NVIDIA for multimodal and multilingual question-answering retrieval.
    The model can embed a document page in the form of an image, text, or combined image–text input.

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