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st-codesearch-distilroberta

Available as managed deployment Embeddings flax-sentence-embeddings Embeddings 1 variants 56k dl/mo

st-codesearch-distilroberta is an open-weight embedding model from flax-sentence-embeddings. 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 byflax-sentence-embeddings
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Context514 tokens
Runs withsentence-transformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity56k downloads / month
LicenceUnknown

About

What st-codesearch-distilroberta 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.

It was trained on the code_search_net dataset and can be used to search program code given text.

Read the full model card

Usage:

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer, util

#This list the defines the different programm codes
code = ["""def sort_list(x):
   return sorted(x)""",
"""def count_above_threshold(elements, threshold=0):
    counter = 0
    for e in elements:
        if e > threshold:
            counter += 1
    return counter""",
"""def find_min_max(elements):
    min_ele = 99999
    max_ele = -99999
    for e in elements:
        if e < min_ele:
            min_ele = e
        if e > max_ele:
            max_ele = e
    return min_ele, max_ele"""]

model = SentenceTransformer("flax-sentence-embeddings/st-codesearch-distilroberta-base")

# Encode our code into the vector space
code_emb = model.encode(code, convert_to_tensor=True)

# Interactive demo: Enter queries, and the method returns the best function from the
# 3 functions we defined
while True:
    query = input("Query: ")
    query_emb = model.encode(query, convert_to_tensor=True)
    hits = util.semantic_search(query_emb, code_emb)[0]
    top_hit = hits[0]

    print("Cossim: {:.2f}".format(top_hit['score']))
    print(code[top_hit['corpus_id']])
    print("\n\n")

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
sentences = ["This is an example sentence", "Each sentence is converted"]

model = SentenceTransformer('flax-sentence-embeddings/st-codesearch-distilroberta-base')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Training

The model was trained with a DistilRoBERTa-base model for 10k training steps on the codesearch dataset with batch_size 256 and MultipleNegativesRankingLoss.

It is some preliminary model. It was neither tested nor was the trained quite sophisticated

The model was trained with the parameters:

DataLoader:

MultiDatasetDataLoader.MultiDatasetDataLoader of length 5371 with parameters:

{'batch_size': 256}

Loss:

sentence_transformers.losses.MultipleNegativesRankingLoss.MultipleNegativesRankingLoss with parameters:

{'scale': 20, 'similarity_fct': 'dot_score'}

Parameters of the fit()-Method:

{
    "callback": null,
    "epochs": 1,
    "evaluation_steps": 0,
    "evaluator": "NoneType",
    "max_grad_norm": 1,
    "optimizer_class": "",
    "optimizer_params": {
        "lr": 2e-05
    },
    "scheduler": "warmupconstant",
    "steps_per_epoch": 10000,
    "warmup_steps": 500,
    "weight_decay": 0.01
}

Full Model Architecture

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 128, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: RobertaModel
  (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})
  (2): Normalize()
)

Citing & Authors

@misc{codesearch-embeddings,
  author = {Flax Sentence Embeddings Team},
  title = {CodeSearch: Sentence Embeddings},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/flax-sentence-embeddings/st-codesearch-distilroberta-base},
}

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

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