mbehr90/multilingual-e5-large-instruct-fp8
multilingual-e5-large-instruct-fp8
FP8_DYNAMIC quantization of intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct, produced with llm-compressor 0.13.0 and measured end to end on NVIDIA H100 80 GB with vLLM 0.26.0.
Only the Linear layers of the encoder are quantized; the vocabulary, position and token-type embeddings, the pooler and any classification head stay in bf16.
Measured
Retrieval and STS are unchanged against bf16. Size is −25%. Throughput is unchanged — the gain is memory only. If you want the smaller checkpoint, the NVFP4 sibling is 675 MiB for 1.7 pp nDCG@10.
SciFact: 300 queries over 5183 documents, nDCG@10. STS-B de: mteb/stsbmultimt (1379 pairs). STS17 en-de: mteb/sts17-crosslingual-sts (250 pairs). Reranking: 1 positive + 19 sampled negatives per query. Throughput over 4096 multilingual texts through the vLLM OpenAI endpoint.
Serving
vllm serve mbehr90/multilingual-e5-large-instruct-fp8 --runner pooling