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sentence-transformers-alephbert

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sentence-transformers-alephbert is an open-weight embedding model from imvladikon. 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 byimvladikon
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Context512 tokens
Runs withsentence-transformers
Released2023-04-04
Popularity194k downloads / month
LicenceUnknown

About

What sentence-transformers-alephbert is

This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.

Current version is distillation of the LaBSE model on private corpus.

Read the full model card

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
from sentence_transformers.util import cos_sim

sentences = [
"הם היו שמחים לראות את האירוע שהתקיים.",
"לראות את האירוע שהתקיים היה מאוד משמח להם."
]

model = SentenceTransformer('imvladikon/sentence-transformers-alephbert')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)

print(cos_sim(*tuple(embeddings)).item())
# 0.883316159248352

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.

import torch
from torch import nn
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel

#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 = [
"הם היו שמחים לראות את האירוע שהתקיים.",
"לראות את האירוע שהתקיים היה מאוד משמח להם."
]

# Load model from HuggingFace Hub
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('imvladikon/sentence-transformers-alephbert')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('imvladikon/sentence-transformers-alephbert')

# 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'])

cos_sim = nn.CosineSimilarity(dim=0, eps=1e-6)
print(cos_sim(sentence_embeddings[0], sentence_embeddings[1]).item())

Evaluation Results

For an automated evaluation of this model, see the Sentence Embeddings Benchmark: https://seb.sbert.net

Training

The model was trained with the parameters:

DataLoader:

torch.utils.data.dataloader.DataLoader of length 44999 with parameters:

{'batch_size': 8, 'sampler': 'torch.utils.data.sampler.RandomSampler', 'batch_sampler': 'torch.utils.data.sampler.BatchSampler'}

Loss:

sentence_transformers.losses.MultipleNegativesRankingLoss.MultipleNegativesRankingLoss with parameters:

{'scale': 20.0, 'similarity_fct': 'cos_sim'}

Parameters of the fit()-Method:

{
    "epochs": 10,
    "evaluation_steps": 0,
    "evaluator": "NoneType",
    "max_grad_norm": 1,
    "optimizer_class": "",
    "optimizer_params": {
        "lr": 2e-05
    },
    "scheduler": "WarmupLinear",
    "steps_per_epoch": null,
    "warmup_steps": 44999,
    "weight_decay": 0.01
}

Full Model Architecture

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 512, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: BertModel
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 768, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False})
)

Citing & Authors

@misc{seker2021alephberta,
      title={AlephBERT:A Hebrew Large Pre-Trained Language Model to Start-off your Hebrew NLP Application With},
      author={Amit Seker and Elron Bandel and Dan Bareket and Idan Brusilovsky and Refael Shaked Greenfeld and Reut Tsarfaty},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2104.04052},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
@misc{reimers2019sentencebert,
      title={Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks},
      author={Nils Reimers and Iryna Gurevych},
      year={2019},
      eprint={1908.10084},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

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

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