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 ## Contact and Citation
 
-Maintained by **GorankLabs**. For questions, issues, or collaboration inquiries, please use the repository or Hugging Face community channels.
-
-If you use this model in research, you can cite it as:
-
-```bibtex
-@misc{goranklabs2024rankembed,
-  title        = {Rank-Embed-1B: A Specialized Search-Helper and Embedding Model},
-  author       = {GorankLabs},
-  year         = {2024},
-  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
-  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/GorankLabs/Rank-Embed-1B}},
-}
-```
+Maintained by **GorankLabs**. For questions, issues, or collaboration inquiries, please use the repository