Yalda-Embedding: Open Development of a Competitive Persian Retrieval Model
Despite advances in multilingual text representations, effective dense retrieval for Persian remains constrained by the limited availability of language-specific training resources and compact embedding models. We present Yalda Embedding, a 595.8-million-parameter Persian retrieval model adapted from Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B using more than one million query-document pairs. On eight Persian retrieval…
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