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SGPT-weightedmean-msmarco-specb-bitfit

Embeddings Muennighoff · community Embeddings 1 build Licence not stated 879 dl/mo

SGPT-weightedmean-msmarco-specb-bitfit is an open-weight embedding model from Muennighoff. SGPT-125M-weightedmean-msmarco-specb-bitfit (BF16) weighs 551 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

What it is

Released byMuennighoff
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Context2,048 tokens
Runs withsentence-transformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity879 downloads / month
Weights551 MB (SGPT-125M-weightedmean-msmarco-specb-bitfit (BF16), file size)
LicenceLicence not stated

What it runs on

Memory and cards for SGPT-125M-weightedmean-msmarco-specb-bitfit (BF16)

Weights 551 MB (file size) · overhead about 1.1 GB.

CardRunsCounted
memory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

Estimates, not measurements: the weights are the build's file size. No cache grows with use; a batch of inputs needs working memory of its own. Counted memory is 92 % of what CUDA reports for the card.

From the model card

What Muennighoff says about SGPT-weightedmean-msmarco-specb-bitfit

Usage

For usage instructions, refer to our codebase: https://github.com/Muennighoff/sgpt

Evaluation Results

For eval results, refer to the eval folder or our paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08904

Read the full model card

Training

The model was trained with the parameters:

DataLoader:

torch.utils.data.dataloader.DataLoader of length 15600 with parameters:

{'batch_size': 32, '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": 0.0002
    },
    "scheduler": "WarmupLinear",
    "steps_per_epoch": null,
    "warmup_steps": 1000,
    "weight_decay": 0.01
}

Full Model Architecture

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 300, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: GPTNeoModel
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 768, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_weightedmean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_lasttoken': False})
)

Citing & Authors

@article{muennighoff2022sgpt,
  title={SGPT: GPT Sentence Embeddings for Semantic Search},
  author={Muennighoff, Niklas},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.08904},
  year={2022}
}

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face — the full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)accuracy61.239
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)ap25.854
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)f155.752
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (de)accuracy56.884
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (de)ap72.673
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (de)f154.450
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext)accuracy58.276
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext)ap14.067
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext)f148.172
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (ja)accuracy54.647
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (ja)ap11.777
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (ja)f144.527
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationaccuracy65.401
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationap60.228
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationf165.025
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)accuracy31.166
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)f130.909
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (de)accuracy24.790
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (de)f124.583
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (es)accuracy26.644
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (es)f126.390
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (fr)accuracy26.386
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (fr)f126.277
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (ja)accuracy22.078
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