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quora-distilroberta

quora-distilroberta 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 100k downloads/mo
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About

What quora-distilroberta is

Cross-Encoder for Quora Duplicate Questions Detection This model was trained using SentenceTransformers Cross-Encoder class. Training Data This model was trained on the Quora Duplicate Questions dataset. The model will predict a score between 0 and 1 how likely the two given questions are duplicates. Note: The model is not suitable to estimate the similarity of questions, e.g. the two questions "How to learn Java" and "How to learn Python" will result in a rather low score, as these are not duplicates. Usage and Performance Pre-trained models can be used like this: You can use this model also without sentencetransformers and by just using Transformers AutoModel class

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)82M
Context514 tokens
Variants1
Runs withsentence-transformers
Based ondistilbert/distilroberta-base
Released2022-03-02
Popularity100k downloads / month
Likes1
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
quora-distilroberta-base82MBF16~0.2 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en

Trained / evaluated on

sentence-transformers/quora-duplicates

Tags

sentence-transformers pytorch jax onnx safetensors openvino roberta text-classification transformers text-ranking en dataset:sentence-transformers/quora-duplicates text-embeddings-inference endpoints_compatible

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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