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 And it also can be used in vector databases for LLMs.
 
 ************* 🌟**Updates**🌟 *************
-- 09/15/2023: Release [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.07597.pdf) and [dataset](https://data.baai.ac.cn/details/BAAI-MTP).
-- 09/12/2023: New Release: 
+- 10/12/2023: Release [LLM-Embedder](./FlagEmbedding/llm_embedder/README.md), a unified embedding model to support diverse retrieval augmentation needs for LLMs. [Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.07554.pdf)  :fire:  
+- 09/15/2023: The [technical report](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.07597.pdf) of BGE has been released 
+- 09/15/2023: The [masive training data](https://data.baai.ac.cn/details/BAAI-MTP) of BGE has been released 
+- 09/12/2023: New models: 
     - **New reranker model**: release cross-encoder models `BAAI/bge-reranker-base` and `BAAI/bge-reranker-large`, which are more powerful than embedding model. We recommend to use/fine-tune them to re-rank top-k documents returned by embedding models. 
     - **update embedding model**: release `bge-*-v1.5` embedding model to alleviate the issue of the similarity distribution, and enhance its retrieval ability without instruction.
-- 09/07/2023: Update [fine-tune code](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/blob/master/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/README.md): Add script to mine hard negatives and support adding instruction during fine-tuning.
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+- 09/07/2023: Update [fine-tune code](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/blob/master/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/README.md): Add script to mine hard negatives and support adding instruction during fine-tuning. 
 - 08/09/2023: BGE Models are integrated into **Langchain**, you can use it like [this](#using-langchain); C-MTEB **leaderboard** is [available](https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard).  
-- 08/05/2023: Release base-scale and small-scale models, **best performance among the models of the same size 🤗**
-- 08/02/2023: Release `bge-large-*`(short for BAAI General Embedding) Models, **rank 1st on MTEB and C-MTEB benchmark!** :tada: :tada: 
-- 08/01/2023: We release the [Chinese Massive Text Embedding Benchmark](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/blob/master/C_MTEB) (**C-MTEB**), consisting of 31 test dataset.   
+- 08/05/2023: Release base-scale and small-scale models, **best performance among the models of the same size 🤗**  
+- 08/02/2023: Release `bge-large-*`(short for BAAI General Embedding) Models, **rank 1st on MTEB and C-MTEB benchmark!** :tada: :tada:   
+- 08/01/2023: We release the [Chinese Massive Text Embedding Benchmark](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/blob/master/C_MTEB) (**C-MTEB**), consisting of 31 test dataset.  
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 ## Model List
 
 `bge` is short for `BAAI general embedding`.
 
-|              Model              | Language | | Description | query instruction for retrieval\* |
+|              Model              | Language | | Description | query instruction for retrieval [1] |
 |:-------------------------------|:--------:| :--------:| :--------:|:--------:|
-|  [BAAI/bge-reranker-large](https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-reranker-large) |   Chinese and English | [Inference](#usage-for-reranker) [Fine-tune](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/reranker) | a cross-encoder model which is more accurate but less efficient \** |   |
-|  [BAAI/bge-reranker-base](https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-reranker-base) |   Chinese and English | [Inference](#usage-for-reranker) [Fine-tune](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/reranker) | a cross-encoder model which is more accurate but less efficient \** |   |
+|  [BAAI/llm-embedder](https://huggingface.co/BAAI/llm-embedder)  |   English | [Inference](./FlagEmbedding/llm_embedder/README.md) [Fine-tune](./FlagEmbedding/llm_embedder/README.md) | a unified embedding model to support diverse retrieval augmentation needs for LLMs | See [README](./FlagEmbedding/llm_embedder/README.md) |
+|  [BAAI/bge-reranker-large](https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-reranker-large)  |   Chinese and English | [Inference](#usage-for-reranker) [Fine-tune](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/reranker) | a cross-encoder model which is more accurate but less efficient [2] |   |
+|  [BAAI/bge-reranker-base](https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-reranker-base) |   Chinese and English | [Inference](#usage-for-reranker) [Fine-tune](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/reranker) | a cross-encoder model which is more accurate but less efficient [2] |   |
 |  [BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5](https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5) |   English | [Inference](#usage-for-embedding-model) [Fine-tune](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/finetune) | version 1.5 with more reasonable similarity distribution | `Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages: `  |
 |  [BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5](https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5) |   English | [Inference](#usage-for-embedding-model) [Fine-tune](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/finetune) | version 1.5 with more reasonable similarity distribution | `Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages: `  |
 |  [BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5](https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5) |   English | [Inference](#usage-for-embedding-model) [Fine-tune](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/finetune) | version 1.5 with more reasonable similarity distribution  | `Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages: `  |
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 |  [BAAI/bge-small-zh](https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-small-zh) |   Chinese | [Inference](#usage-for-embedding-model) [Fine-tune](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/finetune) | a small-scale model but with competitive performance | `为这个句子生成表示以用于检索相关文章：`  |
 
 
-\*: If you need to search the relevant passages to a query, we suggest to add the instruction to the query; in other cases, no instruction is needed, just use the original query directly. In all cases, **no instruction** needs to be added to passages.
+[1\]: If you need to search the relevant passages to a query, we suggest to add the instruction to the query; in other cases, no instruction is needed, just use the original query directly. In all cases, **no instruction** needs to be added to passages.
 
-\**: Different from embedding model, reranker uses question and document as input and directly output similarity instead of embedding. To balance the accuracy and time cost, cross-encoder is widely used to re-rank top-k documents retrieved by other simple models. 
+[2\]: Different from embedding model, reranker uses question and document as input and directly output similarity instead of embedding. To balance the accuracy and time cost, cross-encoder is widely used to re-rank top-k documents retrieved by other simple models. 
 For examples, use bge embedding model to retrieve top 100 relevant documents, and then use bge reranker to re-rank the top 100 document to get the final top-3 results.
 
+All models have been uploaded to Huggingface Hub, and you can see them at https://huggingface.co/BAAI. 
+If you cannot open the Huggingface Hub, you also can download the models at https://model.baai.ac.cn/models .
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 ## Frequently asked questions
 
 <details>
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   <summary>3. When does the query instruction need to be used</summary>
 
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+For the `bge-*-v1.5`, we improve its retrieval ability when not using instruction. 
+No instruction only has a slight degradation in retrieval performance compared with using instruction. 
+So you can generate embedding without instruction in all cases for convenience.
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 For a retrieval task that uses short queries to find long related documents, 
 it is recommended to add instructions for these short queries.
 **The best method to decide whether to add instructions for queries is choosing the setting that achieves better performance on your task.**
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 Therefore, it can be used to re-rank the top-k documents returned by embedding model.
 We train the cross-encoder on a multilingual pair data, 
 The data format is the same as embedding model, so you can fine-tune it easily following our [example](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/reranker). 
-More details pelease refer to [./FlagEmbedding/reranker/README.md](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/FlagEmbedding/reranker)
+More details please refer to [./FlagEmbedding/reranker/README.md](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/FlagEmbedding/reranker)
 
 
 ## Contact
@@ -2973,7 +2992,8 @@ You also can email Shitao Xiao([email protected]) and Zheng Liu([email protected]
 
 ## Citation
 
-If you find our work helpful, please cite us:
+If you find this repository useful, please consider giving a star :star: and citation
+
 ```
 @misc{bge_embedding,
       title={C-Pack: Packaged Resources To Advance General Chinese Embedding}, 
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 ## License
 FlagEmbedding is licensed under the [MIT License](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/blob/master/LICENSE). The released models can be used for commercial purposes free of charge.
 
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