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e5-4k

Available as managed deployment Embeddings dwzhu · community Embeddings 1 variants 9k dl/mo

e5-4k is an open-weight embedding model from dwzhu. 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 bydwzhu
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Context4k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-03-28
Popularity9k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What e5-4k is

LongEmbed: Extending Embedding Models for Long Context Retrieval. Dawei Zhu, Liang Wang, Nan Yang, Yifan Song, Wenhao Wu, Furu Wei, Sujian Li, arxiv 2024. Github Repo for LongEmbed: https://github.com/dwzhu-pku/LongEmbed.

This model has 12 layers and the embedding size is 768.

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Usage

Below is an example to encode queries and passages from the MS-MARCO passage ranking dataset.

import torch
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]

def get_position_ids(input_ids: Tensor, max_original_positions: int=512, encode_max_length: int=4096) -> Tensor:

    position_ids = list(range(input_ids.size(1)))
    factor = max(encode_max_length // max_original_positions, 1)
    if input_ids.size(1) <= max_original_positions:
        position_ids = [(pid * factor) for pid in position_ids]

    position_ids = torch.tensor(position_ids, dtype=torch.long)
    position_ids = position_ids.unsqueeze(0).expand_as(input_ids)

    return position_ids

# 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('dwzhu/e5-base-4k')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('dwzhu/e5-base-4k')

# Tokenize the input texts
batch_dict = tokenizer(input_texts, max_length=4096, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt')
batch_dict['position_ids'] = get_position_ids(batch_dict['input_ids'], max_original_positions=512, encode_max_length=4096)

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())

Training Details

Please refer to our paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12096.pdf. Note that E5-Base-4k simply expands the position embedding matrix to allow for 4,096 position ids. The embedding vectors for the original pids {0,1,2,...,511} is mapped to represent {0,8,16,...,4088}. Embedding vectors for other pids are trained. So for inputs not exceeding 512 tokens, please multiply the position ids by 8 to maintain the original behavior, as shown in the code above.

Benchmark Evaluation

Check out unilm/e5 to reproduce evaluation results on the BEIR and MTEB benchmark.

Citation

If you find our paper or models helpful, please consider cite as follows:

@article{zhu2024longembed,
  title={LongEmbed: Extending Embedding Models for Long Context Retrieval},
  author={Zhu, Dawei and Wang, Liang and Yang, Nan and Song, Yifan and Wu, Wenhao and Wei, Furu and Li, Sujian},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.12096},
  year={2024}
}

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)accuracy77.776
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)ap42.053
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)f172.120
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationaccuracy92.810
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationap89.421
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationf192.804
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)accuracy46.712
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)f146.115
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_123.186
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_1036.633
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_10037.842
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_100037.865
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_332.278
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_534.761
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_123.400
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_1036.721
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_10037.937
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_100037.960
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_332.302
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_534.894
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_123.186
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_1044.490
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_10050.065
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_100050.630

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys e5-4k for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (e5-4k 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":"e5-4k","input":"text to embed"}'

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