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ModernBERT alternatives for AI agents.

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Bringing BERT into modernity via both architecture changes and scaling

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#1

FlagEmbedding

Similarity 148Trust 94Excellent 100

Retrieval and Retrieval-augmented LLMs

12K starsApr 22, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding
#2

RAG Retrieval

Similarity 138Trust 94Excellent 100

Unify Efficient Fine-tuning of RAG Retrieval, including Embedding, ColBERT, ReRanker.

1.1K starsMay 24, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add NovaSearch-Team/RAG-Retrieval
#3

Text2vec

Similarity 138Trust 92Excellent 98

text2vec, text to vector. 文本向量表征工具,把文本转化为向量矩阵,实现了Word2Vec、RankBM25、Sentence-BERT、CoSENT等文本表征、文本相似度计算模型,开箱即用。

5.0K starsFeb 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add shibing624/text2vec
#4

Bpemb

Similarity 137Trust 86Strong 71

Pre-trained subword embeddings in 275 languages, based on Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE)

1.2K starsOct 1, 2024 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add bheinzerling/bpemb
#5

Model2vec

Similarity 137Trust 92Excellent 100

Fast State-of-the-Art Static Embeddings

2.1K starsJun 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add MinishLab/model2vec
#6

Chinese Word Vectors

Similarity 135Trust 85Strong 83

100+ Chinese Word Vectors 上百种预训练中文词向量

12K starsOct 30, 2023 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add Embedding/Chinese-Word-Vectors
#7

Natasha

Similarity 135Trust 89Excellent 97

Solves basic Russian NLP tasks, API for lower level Natasha projects

1.3K starsApr 13, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add natasha/natasha
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PolyFuzz

Similarity 135Trust 81Promising 68

Fuzzy string matching, grouping, and evaluation.

798 starsJul 10, 2025 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add MaartenGr/PolyFuzz
#9

Text Embeddings Inference

Similarity 132Trust 93Excellent 100

A blazing fast inference solution for text embeddings models

4.9K starsMay 26, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustEmbeddings
$ npx skills add huggingface/text-embeddings-inference
#10

Contextualized Topic Models

Similarity 132Trust 89Strong 84

A python package to run contextualized topic modeling. CTMs combine contextualized embeddings (e.g., BERT) with topic models to get coherent topics. Published at EACL and ACL 2021 (Bianchi et al.).

1.3K starsJul 24, 2025 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add MilaNLProc/contextualized-topic-models
#11

Node2vec

Similarity 132Trust 88Strong 84

Implementation of the node2vec algorithm.

1.3K starsOct 6, 2025 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add eliorc/node2vec
#12

Uniem

Similarity 131Trust 75Promising 56

unified embedding model

877 starsSep 1, 2023 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add wangyuxinwhy/uniem
#13

Vectorflow

Similarity 131Trust 77Promising 55

VectorFlow is a high volume vector embedding pipeline that ingests raw data, transforms it into vectors and writes it to a vector DB of your choice.

700 starsMay 16, 2024 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add dgarnitz/vectorflow
#14

Nomic

Similarity 131Trust 82Strong 81

Nomic Developer API SDK

1.9K starsNov 11, 2025 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add nomic-ai/nomic
#15

Wikipedia2vec

Similarity 130Trust 72Needs review 51

A tool for learning vector representations of words and entities from Wikipedia

966 starsMay 3, 2024 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add wikipedia2vec/wikipedia2vec
#16

Omnibox

Similarity 130Trust 92Excellent 100

Collect, organize, use, and share, all in OmniBox.

1.4K starsJun 9, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add import-ai/omnibox

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