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jina-embeddings-zh

Available as managed deployment Embeddings jinaai Embeddings 1 variants 12k dl/mo

jina-embeddings-zh is an open-weight embedding model from jinaai. 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

Makerjinaai
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Parameters (lead)161M
Context8k tokens
Runs withsentence-transformers
Released2024-01-10
Popularity12k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What jina-embeddings-zh is

Quick Start

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

Intended Usage & Model Info

jina-embeddings-v2-base-zh is a Chinese/English bilingual text 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. We have designed it for high performance in mono-lingual & cross-lingual applications and trained it specifically to support mixed Chinese-English input without bias. Additionally, we provide the following embedding models:

jina-embeddings-v2-base-zh 是支持中英双语的文本向量模型,它支持长达8192字符的文本编码。 该模型的研发基于BERT架构(JinaBERT),JinaBERT是在BERT架构基础上的改进,首次将ALiBi应用到编码器架构中以支持更长的序列。 不同于以往的单语言/多语言向量模型,我们设计双语模型来更好的支持单语言(中搜中)以及跨语言(中搜英)文档检索。 除此之外,我们也提供其它向量模型:

Data & Parameters

The data and training details are described in this 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?', '今天天气怎么样?']

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-zh')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-zh', trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)

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
import torch
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-zh', trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
embeddings = model.encode(['How is the weather today?', '今天天气怎么样?'])
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
)

If you want to use the model together with the sentence-transformers package, make sure that you have installed the latest release and set trust_remote_code=True as well:

!pip install -U sentence-transformers
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
from numpy.linalg import norm

cos_sim = lambda a,b: (a @ b.T) / (norm(a)*norm(b))
model = SentenceTransformer('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-zh', trust_remote_code=True)
embeddings = model.encode(['How is the weather today?', '今天天气怎么样?'])
print(cos_sim(embeddings[0], embeddings[1]))

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-zh", # 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?',
    '今天天气怎么样?'
])
print(cos_sim(embeddings[0], embeddings[1]))

Alternatives to Using Transformers 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.

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Benchmarks

Reported results

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

TaskDatasetMetricScore
STSMTEB AFQMCcos_sim_pearson48.514
STSMTEB AFQMCcos_sim_spearman50.593
STSMTEB AFQMCeuclidean_pearson48.750
STSMTEB AFQMCeuclidean_spearman50.510
STSMTEB AFQMCmanhattan_pearson48.787
STSMTEB AFQMCmanhattan_spearman50.587
STSMTEB ATECcos_sim_pearson50.260
STSMTEB ATECcos_sim_spearman51.288
STSMTEB ATECeuclidean_pearson52.703
STSMTEB ATECeuclidean_spearman50.941
STSMTEB ATECmanhattan_pearson52.665
STSMTEB ATECmanhattan_spearman50.922
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (zh)accuracy34.944
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (zh)f134.065
STSMTEB BQcos_sim_pearson65.157
STSMTEB BQcos_sim_spearman66.071
STSMTEB BQeuclidean_pearson60.448
STSMTEB BQeuclidean_spearman61.827
STSMTEB BQmanhattan_pearson60.394
STSMTEB BQmanhattan_spearman61.787
ClusteringMTEB CLSClusteringP2Pv_measure39.967
ClusteringMTEB CLSClusteringS2Sv_measure38.399
RerankingMTEB CMedQAv1map83.637
RerankingMTEB CMedQAv1mrr86.165

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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