Model reference · open weights
ct2fast-e5-small is an open-weight embedding model from michaelfeil. 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 by | michaelfeil |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Task | Embeddings |
| Context | 512 tokens |
| Runs with | sentence-transformers |
| Released | 2023-06-15 |
| Popularity | 526 downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
Speedup inference while reducing memory by 2x-4x using int8 inference in C++ on CPU or GPU.
quantized version of intfloat/e5-small-v2
pip install hf-hub-ctranslate2>=2.12.0 ctranslate2>=3.17.1
# from transformers import AutoTokenizer
model_name = "michaelfeil/ct2fast-e5-small-v2"
model_name_orig="intfloat/e5-small-v2"
from hf_hub_ctranslate2 import EncoderCT2fromHfHub
model = EncoderCT2fromHfHub(
# load in int8 on CUDA
model_name_or_path=model_name,
device="cuda",
compute_type="int8_float16"
)
outputs = model.generate(
text=["I like soccer", "I like tennis", "The eiffel tower is in Paris"],
max_length=64,
) # perform downstream tasks on outputs
outputs["pooler_output"]
outputs["last_hidden_state"]
outputs["attention_mask"]
# alternative, use SentenceTransformer Mix-In
# for end-to-end Sentence embeddings generation
# (not pulling from this CT2fast-HF repo)
from hf_hub_ctranslate2 import CT2SentenceTransformer
model = CT2SentenceTransformer(
model_name_orig, compute_type="int8_float16", device="cuda"
)
embeddings = model.encode(
["I like soccer", "I like tennis", "The eiffel tower is in Paris"],
batch_size=32,
convert_to_numpy=True,
normalize_embeddings=True,
)
print(embeddings.shape, embeddings)
scores = (embeddings @ embeddings.T) * 100
# Hint: you can also host this code via REST API and
# via github.com/michaelfeil/infinity
Checkpoint compatible to ctranslate2>=3.17.1 and hf-hub-ctranslate2>=2.12.0
compute_type=int8_float16 for device="cuda"compute_type=int8 for device="cpu"Converted on 2023-10-13 using
LLama-2 -> removed token.
This is just a quantized version. Licence conditions are intended to be idential to original huggingface repo.
Text Embeddings by Weakly-Supervised Contrastive Pre-training. Liang Wang, Nan Yang, Xiaolong Huang, Binxing Jiao, Linjun Yang, Daxin Jiang, Rangan Majumder, Furu Wei, arXiv 2022
This model has 12 layers and the embedding size is 384.
Below is an example to encode queries and passages from the MS-MARCO passage ranking dataset.
import torch.nn.functional as F
from torch import Tensor
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
def average_pool(last_hidden_states: Tensor,
attention_mask: Tensor) -> Tensor:
last_hidden = last_hidden_states.masked_fill(~attention_mask[..., None].bool(), 0.0)
return last_hidden.sum(dim=1) / attention_mask.sum(dim=1)[..., None]
# Each input text should start with "query: " or "passage: ".
# For tasks other than retrieval, you can simply use the "query: " prefix.
input_texts = ['query: how much protein should a female eat',
'query: summit define',
"passage: As a general guideline, the CDC's average requirement of protein for women ages 19 to 70 is 46 grams per day. But, as you can see from this chart, you'll need to increase that if you're expecting or training for a marathon. Check out the chart below to see how much protein you should be eating each day.",
"passage: Definition of summit for English Language Learners. : 1 the highest point of a mountain : the top of a mountain. : 2 the highest level. : 3 a meeting or series of meetings between the leaders of two or more governments."]
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('intfloat/e5-small-v2')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('intfloat/e5-small-v2')
# Tokenize the input texts
batch_dict = tokenizer(input_texts, max_length=512, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt')
outputs = model(**batch_dict)
embeddings = average_pool(outputs.last_hidden_state, batch_dict['attention_mask'])
# normalize embeddings
embeddings = F.normalize(embeddings, p=2, dim=1)
scores = (embeddings[:2] @ embeddings[2:].T) * 100
print(scores.tolist())
Please refer to our paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.03533.pdf.
Check out unilm/e5 to reproduce evaluation results on the BEIR and MTEB benchmark.
Below is an example for usage with sentence_transformers.
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
model = SentenceTransformer('intfloat/e5-small-v2')
input_texts = [
'query: how much protein should a female eat',
'query: summit define',
"passage: As a general guideline, the CDC's average requirement of protein for women ages 19 to 70 is 46 grams per day. But, as you can see from this chart, you'll need to increase that if you're expecting or training for a marathon. Check out the chart below to see how much protein you should be eating each day.",
"passage: Definition of summit for English Language Learners. : 1 the highest point of a mountain : the top of a mountain. : 2 the highest level. : 3 a meeting or series of meetings between the leaders of two or more governments."
]
embeddings = model.encode(input_texts, normalize_embeddings=True)
Package requirements
pip install sentence_transformers~=2.2.2
Contributors: michaelfeil
1. Do I need to add the prefix "query: " and "passage: " to input texts?
Yes, this is how the model is trained, otherwise you will see a performance degradation.
Here are some rules of thumb:
Use "query: " and "passage: " correspondingly for asymmetric tasks such as passage retrieval in open QA, ad-hoc information retrieval.
Use "query: " prefix for symmetric tasks such as semantic similarity, paraphrase retrieval.
Use "query: " prefix i
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Benchmarks
As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classification | MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | accuracy | 77.597 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | ap | 41.671 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | f1 | 71.865 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | accuracy | 91.266 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | ap | 87.676 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | f1 | 91.243 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) | accuracy | 45.882 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) | f1 | 45.081 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_1 | 20.697 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_10 | 33.975 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_100 | 35.223 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_1000 | 35.260 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_3 | 29.777 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_5 | 32.035 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_1 | 20.982 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_10 | 34.094 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_100 | 35.343 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_1000 | 35.380 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_3 | 29.884 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_5 | 32.142 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | ndcg_at_1 | 20.697 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | ndcg_at_10 | 41.668 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | ndcg_at_100 | 47.397 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | ndcg_at_1000 | 48.305 |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys ct2fast-e5-small for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (ct2fast-e5-small 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":"ct2fast-e5-small","input":"text to embed"}'
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