Nice, I'm really interested in using this for simple semantic search in a native desktop application.

Any comparisons with other tiny embedding models? Did you start from MiniLM-L6 because it's an especially good model in its class? It's hard to figure this out since all you provide is "Retrieval (SciFact NDCG@10)".

But the claimed performance seems way off, I get only 35 emb/sec in firefox on a i5-4570 rather than 400/sec. Is there an issue with falling back to a non-SIMD path? I'll try a native Rust binary next.