Sentence Transformers maintainer urges users to move on from aging all-MiniLM-L6-v2

Tom Aarsen, maintainer of Sentence Transformers, noticed that the 2021-era embedding model all-MiniLM-L6-v2 still trends on Hugging Face, and urged users to switch to newer models as its performance is now outdated.

2026-09-16 ~ 2026-09-16 · 2 related posts

• Sentence Transformers maintainer: stop using all-MiniLM-L6-v2, it's leaving performance on the table — tomaarsen · 2026-09-16
• all-MiniLM-L6-v2 still trending on Hugging Face, its creator says stop using it — tomaarsen · 2026-09-16