Xiao Han

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12.0CLAug 29, 2025
Efficient Code Embeddings from Code Generation Models

Daria Kryvosheieva, Saba Sturua, Michael Günther et al.

jina-code-embeddings is a novel code embedding model suite designed to retrieve code from natural language queries, perform technical question-answering, and identify semantically similar code snippets across programming languages. It makes innovative use of an autoregressive backbone pre-trained on both text and code, generating embeddings via last-token pooling. We outline the training recipe and demonstrate state-of-the-art performance despite the relatively small size of the models, validating this approach to code embedding model construction.