[GH-ISSUE #12191] embeddinggemma doesn't have embedding tag on ollama.com #70166

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opened 2026-05-04 20:35:21 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 9 comments
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Originally created by @rick-github on GitHub (Sep 5, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/12191

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Originally created by @rick-github on GitHub (Sep 5, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/12191 <img width="739" height="444" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f7b6c7e7-2ff8-4367-ba11-1201f3f9d17c" />
GiteaMirror added the modelollama.com labels 2026-05-04 20:35:21 -05:00
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@slyapustin commented on GitHub (Sep 5, 2025):

This also cause error when using recommended ollama run embeddinggemma:

ollama run embeddinggemma
pulling manifest 
pulling 0800cbac9c20: 100% ▕█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 621 MB                         
pulling 45dc10444b87: 100% ▕█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏   34 B                         
pulling 991197bf6ec9: 100% ▕█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏  342 B                         
verifying sha256 digest 
writing manifest 
success 
Error: 400 Bad Request: "embeddinggemma" does not support generate
<!-- gh-comment-id:3257986744 --> @slyapustin commented on GitHub (Sep 5, 2025): This also cause error when using recommended `ollama run embeddinggemma`: ``` ollama run embeddinggemma pulling manifest pulling 0800cbac9c20: 100% ▕█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 621 MB pulling 45dc10444b87: 100% ▕█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 34 B pulling 991197bf6ec9: 100% ▕█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 342 B verifying sha256 digest writing manifest success Error: 400 Bad Request: "embeddinggemma" does not support generate ```
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@rick-github commented on GitHub (Sep 5, 2025):

The recommendation is incorrect because of the missing tag. Embedding models usually display ollama pull <model>.

<!-- gh-comment-id:3257994403 --> @rick-github commented on GitHub (Sep 5, 2025): The recommendation is incorrect because of the missing tag. Embedding models usually display `ollama pull <model>`.
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@slyapustin commented on GitHub (Sep 5, 2025):

Yes, and it also should not be listed in the model list in the Ollama chat:

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<!-- gh-comment-id:3258017395 --> @slyapustin commented on GitHub (Sep 5, 2025): Yes, and it also should not be listed in the model list in the Ollama chat: <img width="828" height="568" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0a78be95-d6a7-43f2-85bd-5aba75b4b984" />
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@stronk7 commented on GitHub (Sep 7, 2025):

Can this be causing the "weird" results that I'm getting when using "embeddinggemma" for embeddings in a semantic router?

Tested with many other embeddings (nomic-embed-text, bge-m3, all-minilm, ...) I get "correct" (expected) results, with very subtle differences, but with embeddinggemma I'm getting completely non-sense results. For example, for the "test" (or anything else) phrase, I get matching nodes which utterances have nothing to do with "test". Again, with practically any "phrase".

So, I bet this makes the results not really reliable, not only for my semantic router, but to any potential use of the model (RAG and friends).

Ciao :-)

<!-- gh-comment-id:3263698892 --> @stronk7 commented on GitHub (Sep 7, 2025): Can this be causing the "weird" results that I'm getting when using "embeddinggemma" for embeddings in a semantic router? Tested with many other embeddings (nomic-embed-text, bge-m3, all-minilm, ...) I get "correct" (expected) results, with very subtle differences, but with embeddinggemma I'm getting completely non-sense results. For example, for the "test" (or anything else) phrase, I get matching nodes which utterances have nothing to do with "test". Again, with practically any "phrase". So, I bet this makes the results not really reliable, not only for my semantic router, but to any potential use of the model (RAG and friends). Ciao :-)
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@uri commented on GitHub (Sep 7, 2025):

Is this also a problem?

$ curl 'http://localhost:11434/api/embed' -d '{
  "model": "embeddinggemma:latest",
  "input": "test"
}'
{"error":"this model does not support embeddings"}
<!-- gh-comment-id:3264088441 --> @uri commented on GitHub (Sep 7, 2025): Is this also a problem? ```bash $ curl 'http://localhost:11434/api/embed' -d '{ "model": "embeddinggemma:latest", "input": "test" }' {"error":"this model does not support embeddings"} ```
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@rick-github commented on GitHub (Sep 7, 2025):

@uri Upgrade ollama.

<!-- gh-comment-id:3264089009 --> @rick-github commented on GitHub (Sep 7, 2025): @uri Upgrade ollama.
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@erbanku commented on GitHub (Sep 8, 2025):

@slyapustin It seems the new Ollama versions do not support running directly, or via GUI; you need to use them via an API request.
Windows PowerShell try (Needs ollama version v0.11.10 or later):

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'http://localhost:11434/api/embed' -Method Post -Body ('{"model":"embeddinggemma:latest","input":"test"}') -ContentType 'application/json'
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<!-- gh-comment-id:3264394727 --> @erbanku commented on GitHub (Sep 8, 2025): @slyapustin It seems the new Ollama versions do not support running directly, or via GUI; you need to use them via an API request. Windows PowerShell try (Needs ollama version v0.11.10 or later): ``` Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'http://localhost:11434/api/embed' -Method Post -Body ('{"model":"embeddinggemma:latest","input":"test"}') -ContentType 'application/json' ``` <details> <summary>Result</summary> <img width="2010" height="1014" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/55f31bb6-3906-4371-8853-bbc7452eb797" /> </details>
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@slyapustin commented on GitHub (Sep 9, 2025):

@erbanku It should not be listed in that dropdown at all or it must be grayed out (with indications - it's embedding model).

<!-- gh-comment-id:3270769944 --> @slyapustin commented on GitHub (Sep 9, 2025): @erbanku It should not be listed in that dropdown at all or it must be grayed out (with indications - it's embedding model).
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@slyapustin commented on GitHub (Sep 9, 2025):

Anyway, they fixed model label now

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<!-- gh-comment-id:3270774655 --> @slyapustin commented on GitHub (Sep 9, 2025): Anyway, they fixed model label now <img width="628" height="180" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fdfd1513-aec2-4e3b-9b5e-a8f0f8a99c39" />
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Reference: github-starred/ollama#70166