# Hugging Face — Visual Document Retrieval Goes Multilingual

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-01-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: vdr-2b-multi-v1, vdr-2b-v1
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1772-visual-document-retrieval-goes-multilingual

Hugging Face and LlamaIndex release vdr-2b-multi-v1, a multilingual embedding model for visual document retrieval, along with its English-only variant vdr-2b-v1 and an open-source dataset vdr-multilingual-train.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual:

> We present vdr-2b-multi-v1, the best multilingual embedding model for visual document retrieval. We also release its English-only twin vdr-2b-v1 and open-source the new vdr-multilingual-train dataset.

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