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qnli-electra

qnli-electra is an open-weight embedding model from cross-encoder, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

Embeddings cross-encoder 1 variants 70k downloads/mo
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About

What qnli-electra is

Cross-Encoder for SQuAD (QNLI) This model was trained using SentenceTransformers Cross-Encoder class. Training Data Given a question and paragraph, can the question be answered by the paragraph? The models have been trained on the GLUE QNLI dataset, which transformed the SQuAD dataset into an NLI task. Performance For performance results of this model, see [SBERT.net Pre-trained Cross-Encoder][https://www.sbert.net/docs/pretrainedcross-encoders.html]. Usage Pre-trained models can be used like this: Usage with Transformers AutoModel You can use the model also directly with Transformers library (without SentenceTransformers library):

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makercross-encoder
TypeEmbedding models
Parameters (lead)109M
Context512 tokens
Variants1
Runs withsentence-transformers
Based ongoogle/electra-base-discriminator
Released2022-03-02
Popularity70k downloads / month
Likes5
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How embedding models work

Your textsentence / documentEncodermaps meaningVectorlist of numbersAn embedding model turns text into a vector, so similar meanings sit close together — the basis of search and RAG.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
qnli-electra-base109MBF16~0.3 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en

Tags

sentence-transformers pytorch onnx safetensors openvino electra text-classification transformers text-ranking en deploy:azure

Papers

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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