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gte-tiny

Available as managed deployment Embeddings TaylorAI Embeddings 1 variants 18k dl/mo

gte-tiny is an open-weight embedding model from TaylorAI. 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 byTaylorAI
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Parameters (lead)23M
Context512 tokens
Runs withsentence-transformers
Released2023-10-05
Popularity18k downloads / month
LicenceUnknown

About

What gte-tiny is

This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 384 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search. It is distilled from thenlper/gte-small, with comparable (slightly worse) performance at around half the size.

Read the full model card

Usage (Sentence-Transformers)

Using this model becomes easy when you have sentence-transformers installed:

pip install -U sentence-transformers

Then you can use the model like this:

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
sentences = ["This is an example sentence", "Each sentence is converted"]

model = SentenceTransformer('{MODEL_NAME}')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Usage (HuggingFace Transformers)

Without sentence-transformers, you can use the model like this: First, you pass your input through the transformer model, then you have to apply the right pooling-operation on-top of the contextualized word embeddings.

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
import torch

#Mean Pooling - Take attention mask into account for correct averaging
def mean_pooling(model_output, attention_mask):
    token_embeddings = model_output[0] #First element of model_output contains all token embeddings
    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 we want sentence embeddings for
sentences = ['This is an example sentence', 'Each sentence is converted']

# Load model from HuggingFace Hub
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('{MODEL_NAME}')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('{MODEL_NAME}')

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

# Compute token embeddings
with torch.no_grad():
    model_output = model(**encoded_input)

# Perform pooling. In this case, mean pooling.
sentence_embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])

print("Sentence embeddings:")
print(sentence_embeddings)

Evaluation Results

For an automated evaluation of this model, see the Sentence Embeddings Benchmark: https://seb.sbert.net

Full Model Architecture

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 512, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: BertModel
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 384, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False})
)

Citing & Authors

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)accuracy71.761
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)ap34.637
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)f165.889
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationaccuracy86.613
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationap81.748
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationf186.586
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)accuracy42.610
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)f142.222
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_128.378
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_1044.565
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_10045.480
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_100045.487
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_339.841
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_542.284
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_129.445
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_1044.956
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_10045.877
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_100045.884
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_340.209
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_542.719
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_128.378
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_1053.638
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_10057.354
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_100057.513

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

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