Model guide

See the table below for the current recommended models. These models all allow commercial use and offer a blend of speed and performance.

Component	Model(s)
Embeddings	all-MiniLM-L6-v2
Image Captions	BLIP
Labels - Zero Shot	BART-Large-MNLI
Labels - Fixed	Fine-tune with training pipeline
Large Language Model (LLM)	Llama 3.1 Instruct
Summarization	DistilBART
Text-to-Speech	ESPnet JETS
Transcription	Whisper
Translation	OPUS Model Series

Models can be loaded as either a path from the Hugging Face Hub or a local directory. Model paths are optional, defaults are loaded when not specified. For tasks with no recommended model, txtai uses the default models as shown in the Hugging Face Tasks guide.

See the following links to learn more.

• Hugging Face Tasks
• Hugging Face Model Hub
• MTEB Leaderboard
• LMSYS LLM Leaderboard
• Open LLM Leaderboard