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sentence-bert-ja-mean-tokens

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sentence-bert-ja-mean-tokens is an open-weight embedding model from sonoisa. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

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What it is

Released bysonoisa
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Parameters (lead)111M
Context512 tokens
Runs withsentence-transformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity109k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What sentence-bert-ja-mean-tokens is

This is a Japanese sentence-BERT model.

日本語用Sentence-BERTモデル(バージョン2)です。

バージョン1よりも良いロス関数であるMultipleNegativesRankingLossを用いて学習した改良版です。 手元の非公開データセットでは、バージョン1よりも1.5〜2ポイントほど精度が高い結果が得られました。

事前学習済みモデルとしてcl-tohoku/bert-base-japanese-whole-word-maskingを利用しました。 従って、推論の実行にはfugashiとipadicが必要です(pip install fugashi ipadic)。

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旧バージョンの解説

https://qiita.com/sonoisa/items/1df94d0a98cd4f209051

モデル名を"sonoisa/sentence-bert-base-ja-mean-tokens-v2"に書き換えれば、本モデルを利用した挙動になります。

使い方

from transformers import BertJapaneseTokenizer, BertModel
import torch

class SentenceBertJapanese:
    def __init__(self, model_name_or_path, device=None):
        self.tokenizer = BertJapaneseTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name_or_path)
        self.model = BertModel.from_pretrained(model_name_or_path)
        self.model.eval()

        if device is None:
            device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
        self.device = torch.device(device)
        self.model.to(device)

    def _mean_pooling(self, 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)

    @torch.no_grad()
    def encode(self, sentences, batch_size=8):
        all_embeddings = []
        iterator = range(0, len(sentences), batch_size)
        for batch_idx in iterator:
            batch = sentences[batch_idx:batch_idx + batch_size]

            encoded_input = self.tokenizer.batch_encode_plus(batch, padding="longest",
                                           truncation=True, return_tensors="pt").to(self.device)
            model_output = self.model(**encoded_input)
            sentence_embeddings = self._mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input["attention_mask"]).to('cpu')

            all_embeddings.extend(sentence_embeddings)

        # return torch.stack(all_embeddings).numpy()
        return torch.stack(all_embeddings)

MODEL_NAME = "sonoisa/sentence-bert-base-ja-mean-tokens-v2"  # <- v2です。
model = SentenceBertJapanese(MODEL_NAME)

sentences = ["暴走したAI", "暴走した人工知能"]
sentence_embeddings = model.encode(sentences, batch_size=8)

print("Sentence embeddings:", 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 sentence-bert-ja-mean-tokens for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (sentence-bert-ja-mean-tokens 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":"sentence-bert-ja-mean-tokens","input":"text to embed"}'

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