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sbert-chinese-general

Available as managed deployment Embeddings DMetaSoul Embeddings 1 variants 536 dl/mo

sbert-chinese-general is an open-weight embedding model from DMetaSoul. 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 byDMetaSoul
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Context512 tokens
Runs withsentence-transformers
Released2022-04-02
Popularity536 downloads / month
LicenceUnknown

About

What sbert-chinese-general is

此模型是之前开源通用语义匹配模型的蒸馏版本(仅4层 BERT),适用于通用语义匹配场景,从效果来看该模型在各种任务上泛化能力更好且编码速度更快

离线训练好的大模型如果直接用于线上推理,对计算资源有苛刻的需求,而且难以满足业务环境对延迟、吞吐量等性能指标的要求,这里我们使用蒸馏手段来把大模型轻量化。从 12 层 BERT 蒸馏为 4 层后,模型参数量缩小到 44%,大概 latency 减半、throughput 翻倍、精度下降 6% 左右(具体结果详见下文评估小节)。

Read the full model card

Usage

1. Sentence-Transformers

通过 sentence-transformers 框架来使用该模型,首先进行安装:

pip install -U sentence-transformers

然后使用下面的代码来载入该模型并进行文本表征向量的提取:

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
sentences = ["我的儿子!他猛然间喊道,我的儿子在哪儿?", "我的儿子呢!他突然喊道,我的儿子在哪里?"]

model = SentenceTransformer('DMetaSoul/sbert-chinese-general-v2-distill')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

2. HuggingFace Transformers

如果不想使用 sentence-transformers 的话,也可以通过 HuggingFace Transformers 来载入该模型并进行文本向量抽取:

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 = ["我的儿子!他猛然间喊道,我的儿子在哪儿?", "我的儿子呢!他突然喊道,我的儿子在哪里?"]

# Load model from HuggingFace Hub
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('DMetaSoul/sbert-chinese-general-v2-distill')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('DMetaSoul/sbert-chinese-general-v2-distill')

# 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)

Evaluation

这里主要跟蒸馏前对应的 teacher 模型作了对比:

性能:

TeacherStudentGap
ModelBERT-12-layers (102M)BERT-4-layers (45M)0.44x
Cost23s12s-47%
Latency38ms20ms-47%
Throughput418 sentence/s791 sentence/s1.9x

精度:

csts_devcsts_testafqmclcqmcbqcorpuspawsxxiaobuAvg
Teacher77.19%72.59%36.79%76.91%49.62%16.24%63.15%56.07%
Student76.49%73.33%26.46%64.26%46.02%11.83%52.45%50.12%
Gap (abs.)--------5.95%

基于1万条数据测试,GPU设备是V100,batch_size=16,max_seq_len=256

Citing & Authors

E-mail: xiaowenbin@dmetasoul.com

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 sbert-chinese-general for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (sbert-chinese-general 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":"sbert-chinese-general","input":"text to embed"}'

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