Sentence Similarity
sentence-transformers
Safetensors
qwen3
feature-extraction
agent-skill-retrieval
text-embeddings-inference
Instructions to use tencent/R3-embedding-0.6b with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- sentence-transformers
How to use tencent/R3-embedding-0.6b with sentence-transformers:
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer model = SentenceTransformer("tencent/R3-embedding-0.6b") sentences = [ "That is a happy person", "That is a happy dog", "That is a very happy person", "Today is a sunny day" ] embeddings = model.encode(sentences) similarities = model.similarity(embeddings, embeddings) print(similarities.shape) # [4, 4] - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
| license: apache-2.0 | |
| base_model: Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B | |
| pipeline_tag: sentence-similarity | |
| tags: | |
| - sentence-transformers | |
| - feature-extraction | |
| - agent-skill-retrieval | |
| # R3-Embedding-0.6B | |
| The latest agent skill retrieval model at the 0.6B scale. **R3-Embedding** is the bi-encoder | |
| (recall) stage of R3-Skill's two-stage retriever for query-conditional agent skill retrieval. It | |
| embeds a query and every skill independently and ranks candidates by cosine similarity, paired | |
| with [R3-Rerank-0.6B](https://huggingface.co/tencent/R3-rerank-0.6b) for reranking. | |
| - 📄 Paper: [Skill Is Not Document: A Query-Conditional Benchmark and Two-Stage Retriever for LLM Agent Skill Routing](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03565) | |
| - 💻 Code: [Tencent/R3-Skill](https://github.com/Tencent/R3-Skill) | |
| ## Usage | |
| ```python | |
| from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer | |
| model = SentenceTransformer("tencent/R3-embedding-0.6b") | |
| query_embedding = model.encode_query("I need to compose music") | |
| document_embeddings = model.encode_document([ # The format is "name | description | skill_md" | |
| "music-composer | Composes original music | Creates music for various media formats ...", | |
| "music-lyricist | Writes lyrics for songs | Creates lyrics for various music genres ...", | |
| "music-editor | Edits and mixes music tracks | Provides audio editing and mixing services ...", | |
| ]) | |
| similarities = model.similarity(query_embedding, document_embeddings) | |
| print(similarities) | |
| # tensor([[0.7410, 0.5510, 0.5028]]) | |
| ``` | |
| ## Citation | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{r3skill2026, | |
| title = {Skill Is Not Document: A Query-Conditional Benchmark and Two-Stage Retriever for LLM Agent Skill Routing}, | |
| author = {Wang, Zifei and Wen, Wei and Ji, Qiang and Qiao, Ruizhi and Sun, Xing}, | |
| year = {2026}, | |
| url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03565}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |