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jina-embeddings-en

Available as managed deployment Embeddings arkohut · community Embeddings 1 variants 45k dl/mo

jina-embeddings-en is an open-weight embedding model from arkohut. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released byarkohut
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Parameters (lead)137M
Context8k tokens
Runs withsentence-transformers
Released2024-11-19
Popularity45k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What jina-embeddings-en is

Quick Start

The easiest way to starting using jina-embeddings-v2-base-en is to use Jina AI's Embedding API.

Intended Usage & Model Info

jina-embeddings-v2-base-en is an English, monolingual embedding model supporting 8192 sequence length. It is based on a BERT architecture (JinaBERT) that supports the symmetric bidirectional variant of ALiBi to allow longer sequence length. The backbone jina-bert-v2-base-en is pretrained on the C4 dataset. The model is further trained on Jina AI's collection of more than 400 millions of sentence pairs and hard negatives. These pairs were obtained from various domains and were carefully selected through a thorough cleaning process.

Read the full model card

The embedding model was trained using 512 sequence length, but extrapolates to 8k sequence length (or even longer) thanks to ALiBi. This makes our model useful for a range of use cases, especially when processing long documents is needed, including long document retrieval, semantic textual similarity, text reranking, recommendation, RAG and LLM-based generative search, etc.

With a standard size of 137 million parameters, the model enables fast inference while delivering better performance than our small model. It is recommended to use a single GPU for inference. Additionally, we provide the following embedding models:

Data & Parameters

Jina Embeddings V2 technical report

Usage

Please apply mean pooling when integrating the model.

Why mean pooling?

mean poooling takes all token embeddings from model output and averaging them at sentence/paragraph level. It has been proved to be the most effective way to produce high-quality sentence embeddings. We offer an encode function to deal with this.

However, if you would like to do it without using the default encode function:

import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel

def mean_pooling(model_output, attention_mask):
    token_embeddings = model_output[0]
    input_mask_expanded = attention_mask.unsqueeze(-1).expand(token_embeddings.size()).float()
    return torch.sum(token_embeddings * input_mask_expanded, 1) / torch.clamp(input_mask_expanded.sum(1), min=1e-9)

sentences = ['How is the weather today?', 'What is the current weather like today?']

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en', trust_remote_code=True)

encoded_input = tokenizer(sentences, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt')

with torch.no_grad():
    model_output = model(**encoded_input)

embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])
embeddings = F.normalize(embeddings, p=2, dim=1)

You can use Jina Embedding models directly from transformers package.

!pip install transformers
from transformers import AutoModel
from numpy.linalg import norm

cos_sim = lambda a,b: (a @ b.T) / (norm(a)*norm(b))
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-en', trust_remote_code=True) # trust_remote_code is needed to use the encode method
embeddings = model.encode(['How is the weather today?', 'What is the current weather like today?'])
print(cos_sim(embeddings[0], embeddings[1]))

If you only want to handle shorter sequence, such as 2k, pass the max_length parameter to the encode function:

embeddings = model.encode(
    ['Very long ... document'],
    max_length=2048
)

Using the its latest release (v2.3.0) sentence-transformers also supports Jina embeddings (Please make sure that you are logged into huggingface as well):

!pip install -U sentence-transformers
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
from sentence_transformers.util import cos_sim

model = SentenceTransformer(
    "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-en", # switch to en/zh for English or Chinese
    trust_remote_code=True
)

# control your input sequence length up to 8192
model.max_seq_length = 1024

embeddings = model.encode([
    'How is the weather today?',
    'What is the current weather like today?'
])
print(cos_sim(embeddings[0], embeddings[1]))

Alternatives to Using Transformers (or SentencTransformers) Package

  1. Managed SaaS: Get started with a free key on Jina AI's Embedding API.
  2. Private and high-performance deployment: Get started by picking from our suite of models and deploy them on AWS Sagemaker.

Use Jina Embeddings for RAG

According to the latest blog post from LLamaIndex,

In summary, to achieve the peak performance in both hit rate and MRR, the combination of OpenAI or JinaAI-Base embeddings with the CohereRerank/bge-reranker-large reranker stands out.

Plans

  1. Bilingual embedding models supporting more European & Asian languages, including Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese.
  2. Multimodal embedding models enable Multimodal RAG applications.
  3. High-performt rerankers.

Trouble Shooting

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If you forgot to pass the `trust_rem

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)accuracy74.731
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)ap37.765
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)f168.794
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationaccuracy88.544
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationap84.613
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationf188.519
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)accuracy45.264
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)f143.779
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_121.693
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_1035.487
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_10036.862
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_100036.872
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_330.050
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_532.966
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_121.977
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_1035.566
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_10036.948
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_100036.958
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_330.121
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_533.051
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_121.693
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_1044.181
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_10049.982
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_100050.233

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys arkohut-jina-embeddings-en for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (arkohut-jina-embeddings-en below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"arkohut-jina-embeddings-en","input":"text to embed"}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.

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