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odia-sentence-bert-nli

Available as managed deployment Embeddings l3cube-pune · community Embeddings 1 variants 596 dl/mo

odia-sentence-bert-nli is an open-weight embedding model from l3cube-pune. 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 byl3cube-pune
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Context512 tokens
Runs withsentence-transformers
Released2023-03-04
Popularity596 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What odia-sentence-bert-nli is

This is a OdiaBERT model (l3cube-pune/odia-bert) trained on the NLI dataset. Released as a part of project MahaNLP: https://github.com/l3cube-pune/MarathiNLP A multilingual version of this model supporting major Indic languages and cross-lingual capabilities is shared here indic-sentence-bert-nli

A better sentence similarity model (fine-tuned version of this model) is shared here: https://huggingface.co/l3cube-pune/odia-sentence-similarity-sbert

More details on the dataset, models, and baseline results can be found in our [paper] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11434)

@article{deode2023l3cube,
  title={L3Cube-IndicSBERT: A simple approach for learning cross-lingual sentence representations using multilingual BERT},
  author={Deode, Samruddhi and Gadre, Janhavi and Kajale, Aditi and Joshi, Ananya and Joshi, Raviraj},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11434},
  year={2023}
}
@article{joshi2022l3cubemahasbert,
  title={L3Cube-MahaSBERT and HindSBERT: Sentence BERT Models and Benchmarking BERT Sentence Representations for Hindi and Marathi},
  author={Joshi, Ananya and Kajale, Aditi and Gadre, Janhavi and Deode, Samruddhi and Joshi, Raviraj},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11187},
  year={2022}
}

Other Monolingual Indic sentence BERT models are listed below:

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Other Monolingual similarity models are listed below:

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

def cls_pooling(model_output, attention_mask):
    return model_output[0][:,0]

# 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, cls pooling.
sentence_embeddings = cls_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])

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

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

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