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MiniCPM-Embedding

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

MiniCPM-Embedding is an open-weight embedding model from openbmb. 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

Makeropenbmb
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Parameters (lead)2.7B
Context512 tokens
Runs withtransformers
Based onopenbmb/MiniCPM-2B-sft-bf16
Released2024-09-04
Popularity12k downloads / month
LicenceUnknown

About

What MiniCPM-Embedding is

MiniCPM-Embedding

MiniCPM-Embedding 是面壁智能与清华大学自然语言处理实验室(THUNLP)、东北大学信息检索小组(NEUIR)共同开发的中英双语言文本嵌入模型,有如下特点:

  • 出色的中文、英文检索能力。
  • 出色的中英跨语言检索能力。

MiniCPM-Embedding 基于 MiniCPM-2B-sft-bf16 训练,结构上采取双向注意力和 Weighted Mean Pooling [1]。采取多阶段训练方式,共使用包括开源数据、机造数据、闭源数据在内的约 600 万条训练数据。

欢迎关注 RAG 套件系列:

MiniCPM-Embedding is a bilingual & cross-lingual text embedding model developed by ModelBest Inc. , THUNLP and NEUIR , featuring:

  • Exceptional Chinese and English retrieval capabilities.
  • Outstanding cross-lingual retrieval capabilities between Chinese and English.

MiniCPM-Embedding is trained based on MiniCPM-2B-sft-bf16 and incorporates bidirectional attention and Weighted Mean Pooling [1] in its architecture. The model underwent multi-stage training using approximately 6 million training examples, including open-source, synthetic, and proprietary data.

We also invite you to explore the RAG toolkit series:

[1] Muennighoff, N. (2022). Sgpt: Gpt sentence embeddings for semantic search. arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.08904.

模型信息 Model Information

  • 模型大小:2.4B

  • 嵌入维度:2304

  • 最大输入token数:512

  • Model Size: 2.4B

  • Embedding Dimension: 2304

  • Max Input Tokens: 512

使用方法 Usage

输入格式 Input Format

本模型支持 query 侧指令,格式如下:

MiniCPM-Embedding supports query-side instructions in the following format:

Instruction: {{ instruction }} Query: {{ query }}

例如:

For example:

Instruction: 为这个医学问题检索相关回答。Query: 咽喉癌的成因是什么?
Instruction: Given a claim about climate change, retrieve documents that support or refute the claim. Query: However the warming trend is slower than most climate models have forecast.

也可以不提供指令,即采取如下格式:

MiniCPM-Embedding also works in instruction-free mode in the following format:

Query: {{ query }}

我们在 BEIR 与 C-MTEB/Retrieval 上测试时使用的指令见 instructions.json,其他测试不使用指令。文档侧直接输入文档原文。

When running evaluation on BEIR and C-MTEB/Retrieval, we use instructions in instructions.json. For other evaluations, we do not use instructions. On the document side, we directly use the bare document as the input.

环境要求 Requirements

transformers==4.37.2

示例脚本 Demo

Huggingface Transformers


from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F

model_name = "openbmb/MiniCPM-Embedding"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.float16).to("cuda")
# You can also use the following line to enable the Flash Attention 2 implementation
# model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True, attn_implementation="flash_attention_2", torch_dtype=torch.float16).to("cuda")
model.eval()

# 由于在 `model.forward` 中缩放了最终隐层表示,此处的 mean pooling 实际上起到了 weighted mean pooling 的作用
# As we scale hidden states in `model.forward`, mean pooling here actually works as weighted mean pooling
def mean_pooling(hidden, attention_mask):
    s = torch.sum(hidden * attention_mask.unsqueeze(-1).float(), dim=1)
    d = attention_mask.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).float()
    reps = s / d
    return reps

@torch.no_grad()
def encode(input_texts):
    batch_dict = tokenizer(input_texts, max_length=512, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt', return_attention_mask=True).to("cuda")

    outputs = model(**batch_dict)
    attention_mask = batch_dict["attention_mask"]
    hidden = outputs.last_hidden_state

    reps = mean_pooling(hidden, attention_mask)
    embeddings = F.normalize(reps, p=2, dim=1).detach().cpu().numpy()
    return embeddings

queries = ["中国的首都是哪里?"]
passages = ["beijing", "shanghai"]

INSTRUCTION = "Query: "
queries = [INSTRUCTION + query for query in queries]

embeddings_query = encode(queries)
embeddings_doc = encode(passages)

scores = (embeddings_query @ embeddings_doc.T)
print(scores.tolist())  # [[0.3535913825035095, 0.18596848845481873]]

Sentence Transformers

import torch
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

model_name = "openbmb/MiniCPM-Embedding"
model = SentenceTransformer(model_name, trust_remote_code=True, model_kwargs={ "torch_dtype": torch.float16})
# You can also use the following line to enable the Flash Attention 2 implementation
# model = SentenceTransformer(model_name, trust_remote_code=True, attn_implementation="flash_attention_2", model_kwargs={ "torch_dtype": torch.float16})

queries = ["中国的首都是哪里?"]
passages = ["beijing", "shanghai"]

INSTRUCTION = "Query: "

embeddings_query = model.encode(queries, prompt=INSTRUCTION)
embeddings_doc = model.encode(passages)

scores = (embeddings_query @ embeddings_doc.T)
print(scores.tolist())  # [[0.35365450382232666, 0.18592746555805206]]

实验结果 Evaluation Results

中文与英文检索结果 CN/EN Retrieval Results

模型 ModelC-MTEB/Retrieval (NDCG@10)BEIR (NDCG@10)
bge-large-zh-v1.570.46-
gte-large-zh72.49-
Zhihui_LLM_Embedding76.74
bge-large-en-v1.5-54.29
gte-en-large-v1.5-57.91
NV-Retriever-v1-60.9
bge-en-icl

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
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_1064.650
RetrievalMTEB CQADupstackRetrievalndcg_at_1046.530
RetrievalMTEB ClimateFEVERndcg_at_1035.550
RetrievalMTEB DBPediandcg_at_1047.820
RetrievalMTEB FEVERndcg_at_1090.760
RetrievalMTEB FiQA2018ndcg_at_1056.640
RetrievalMTEB HotpotQAndcg_at_1078.110
RetrievalMTEB MSMARCOndcg_at_1043.930
RetrievalMTEB NFCorpusndcg_at_1039.770
RetrievalMTEB NQndcg_at_1069.290
RetrievalMTEB QuoraRetrievalndcg_at_1089.970
RetrievalMTEB SCIDOCSndcg_at_1022.380
RetrievalMTEB SciFactndcg_at_1086.600
RetrievalMTEB TRECCOVIDndcg_at_1081.320
RetrievalMTEB Touche2020ndcg_at_1025.080
RetrievalMTEB CmedqaRetrievalndcg_at_1046.050
RetrievalMTEB CovidRetrievalndcg_at_1092.010
RetrievalMTEB DuRetrievalndcg_at_1090.980
RetrievalMTEB EcomRetrievalndcg_at_1070.210
RetrievalMTEB MMarcoRetrievalndcg_at_1085.550
RetrievalMTEB MedicalRetrievalndcg_at_1063.910
RetrievalMTEB T2Retrievalndcg_at_1087.330
RetrievalMTEB VideoRetrievalndcg_at_1078.050

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys minicpm-embedding for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (minicpm-embedding 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":"minicpm-embedding","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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