Is EmbeddingGemma guaranteed to run fully offline without any external network communication?

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Hello,

We are evaluating EmbeddingGemma for enterprise RAG use cases where strict data isolation is required.

According to the official documentation, EmbeddingGemma is designed to work offline.
We would like to confirm the following from a model-design perspective:

  1. Does EmbeddingGemma perform any outbound network communication during inference?
  2. Once the model weights are downloaded, is all embedding computation guaranteed to happen locally?
  3. Are there any built-in mechanisms in the model that would require internet access?

We are not asking about deployment configuration or runtime libraries,
but about the EmbeddingGemma model itself.

An official confirmation or reference to authoritative documentation would be highly appreciated.

Thank you.

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Hi @K_F
Yes, EmbeddingGemma is designed to run 100% offline, it is a self-contained statistical model. Once the model weights and tokenizer files are downloaded to your environment, no outbound network communication occurs during inference. There are no built-in mechanisms, “call-home” functions, or remote dependencies within the model architecture itself.
Please take a look at these official resources for more information

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Thanks

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