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use-cmlm-multilingual

Available as managed deployment Embeddings sentence-transformers Embeddings 1 variants 4k dl/mo

use-cmlm-multilingual is an open-weight embedding model from sentence-transformers. 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

Makersentence-transformers
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Parameters (lead)472M
Context512 tokens
Runs withsentence-transformers
Released2022-04-13
Popularity4k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What use-cmlm-multilingual is

This is a pytorch version of the universal-sentence-encoder-cmlm/multilingual-base-br model. It can be used to map 109 languages to a shared vector space. As the model is based LaBSE, it perform quite comparable on downstream tasks.

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('sentence-transformers/use-cmlm-multilingual')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Full Model Architecture

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 256, '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})
  (2): Normalize()
)

Citing & Authors

Have a look at universal-sentence-encoder-cmlm/multilingual-base-br for the respective publication that describes this model.

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

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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