Model reference · open weights
Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-ma is an open-weight embedding model from rufimelo. 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 | rufimelo |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Task | Embeddings |
| Parameters (lead) | 334M |
| Context | 512 tokens |
| Runs with | sentence-transformers |
| Released | 2022-09-21 |
| Popularity | 3k downloads / month |
| Licence | Unknown |
About
This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 1024 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search. rufimelo/Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-ma-v3 is based on Legal-BERTimbau-large which derives from BERTimbau large. It is adapted to the Portuguese legal domain and trained for STS on portuguese datasets.
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 = ["Isto é um exemplo", "Isto é um outro exemplo"]
model = SentenceTransformer('rufimelo/Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-ma-v3')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(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('rufimelo/Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-ma-v3')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('rufimelo/Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-ma-v3')
# 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)
| Model | Assin | Assin2 | stsb_multi_mt pt | avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal-BERTimbau-sts-base | 0.71457 | 0.73545 | 0.72383 | 0.72462 |
| Legal-BERTimbau-sts-base-ma | 0.74874 | 0.79532 | 0.82254 | 0.78886 |
| Legal-BERTimbau-sts-base-ma-v2 | 0.75481 | 0.80262 | 0.82178 | 0.79307 |
| Legal-BERTimbau-base-TSDAE-sts | 0.78814 | 0.81380 | 0.75777 | 0.78657 |
| Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large | 0.76629 | 0.82357 | 0.79120 | 0.79369 |
| Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-v2 | 0.76299 | 0.81121 | 0.81726 | 0.79715 |
| Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-ma | 0.76195 | 0.81622 | 0.82608 | 0.80142 |
| Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-ma-v2 | 0.7836 | 0.8462 | 0.8261 | 0.81863 |
| Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-ma-v3 | 0.7749 | 0.8470 | 0.8364 | 0.81943 |
| Legal-BERTimbau-large-v2-sts | 0.71665 | 0.80106 | 0.73724 | 0.75165 |
| Legal-BERTimbau-large-TSDAE-sts | 0.72376 | 0.79261 | 0.73635 | 0.75090 |
| Legal-BERTimbau-large-TSDAE-sts-v2 | 0.81326 | 0.83130 | 0.786314 | 0.81029 |
| Legal-BERTimbau-large-TSDAE-sts-v3 | 0.80703 | 0.82270 | 0.77638 | 0.80204 |
| ---------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- |
| BERTimbau base Fine-tuned for STS | 0.78455 | 0.80626 | 0.82841 | 0.80640 |
| BERTimbau large Fine-tuned for STS | 0.78193 | 0.81758 | 0.83784 | 0.81245 |
| ---------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- |
| paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 | 0.71457 | 0.79831 | 0.83999 | 0.78429 |
| paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 Fine-tuned with assin(s) | 0.77641 | 0.79831 | 0.84575 | 0.80682 |
rufimelo/Legal-BERTimbau-sts-large-ma-v3 is based on Legal-BERTimbau-large which derives from BERTimbau large.
Firstly, due to the lack of portuguese datasets, it was trained using multilingual knowledge distillation. For the Multilingual Knowledge Distillation process, the teacher model was 'sentence-transformers/stsb-roberta-large', the supposed supported language as English and the language to learn was portuguese.
It was trained for Semantic Textual Similarity, being submitted to a fine tuning stage with the assin, assin2 and stsb_multi_mt pt datasets. (batch 8, 5 epochs 'lr': 1e-5)
SentenceTransformer(
(0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 512, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: BertModel
(1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 1024, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False})
)
If you use this work, please cite:
@inproceedings{souza2020bertimbau,
author = {F{\'a}bio Souza and
Rodrigo Nogueira and
Roberto Lotufo},
title = {{BERT}imbau: pretrained {BERT} models for {B}razilian {P}ortuguese},
booktitle = {9th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, {BRACIS}, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, October 20-23 (to appear)},
year = {2020}
}
@inproceedings{fonseca2016assin,
title={ASSIN: Avaliacao de similaridade semantica e inferencia textual},
author={Fonseca, E and Santos, L and Criscuolo, Marcelo and Aluisio, S},
booktitle={Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language-12th International Conference, Tomar, Portugal},
pages={13--15},
year={2016}
}
@inproceedings{real2020assin,
title={The assin 2 shared task: a quick overview},
author={Real, Livy and Fonseca, Erick and Oliveira, Hugo Goncalo},
booktitle={International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language},
pagesFrom 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STS | — | Pearson Correlation - assin Dataset | 0.775 |
| STS | — | Pearson Correlation - assin2 Dataset | 0.847 |
| STS | — | Pearson Correlation - stsb_multi_mt pt Dataset | 0.836 |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys legal-bertimbau-sts-large-ma for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (legal-bertimbau-sts-large-ma 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":"legal-bertimbau-sts-large-ma","input":"text to embed"}'
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