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vectorizer.vanilla

Available as managed deployment Embeddings sinequa Embeddings 1 variants 549 dl/mo

vectorizer.vanilla is an open-weight embedding model from sinequa. 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 bysinequa
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Context512 tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2023-07-11
Popularity549 downloads / month
LicenceUnknown

About

What vectorizer.vanilla is

This model is a vectorizer developed by Sinequa. It produces an embedding vector given a passage or a query. The passage vectors are stored in our vector index and the query vector is used at query time to look up relevant passages in the index.

Model name: vectorizer.vanilla

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Supported Languages

The model was trained and tested in the following languages:

  • English

Scores

MetricValue
Relevance (Recall@100)0.639

Note that the relevance score is computed as an average over 14 retrieval datasets (see details below).

Inference Times

GPUQuantization typeBatch size 1Batch size 32
NVIDIA A10FP161 ms5 ms
NVIDIA A10FP322 ms20 ms
NVIDIA T4FP161 ms14 ms
NVIDIA T4FP322 ms53 ms
NVIDIA L4FP161 ms5 ms
NVIDIA L4FP323 ms25 ms

GPU Memory usage

Quantization typeMemory
FP16300 MiB
FP32500 MiB

Note that GPU memory usage only includes how much GPU memory the actual model consumes on an NVIDIA T4 GPU with a batch size of 32. It does not include the fix amount of memory that is consumed by the ONNX Runtime upon initialization which can be around 0.5 to 1 GiB depending on the used GPU.

Requirements

Model Details

Overview

  • Number of parameters: 23 million
  • Base language model: English MiniLM-L6-H384
  • Insensitive to casing and accents
  • Output dimensions: 256 (reduced with an additional dense layer)
  • Training procedure: Query-passage-negative triplets for datasets that have mined hard negative data, Query-passage pairs for the rest. Number of negatives is augmented with in-batch negative strategy.

Training Data

The model have been trained using all datasets that are cited in the all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model.

Evaluation Metrics

To determine the relevance score, we averaged the results that we obtained when evaluating on the datasets of the BEIR benchmark. Note that all these datasets are in English.

DatasetRecall@100
Average0.639
Arguana0.969
CLIMATE-FEVER0.509
DBPedia Entity0.409
FEVER0.839
FiQA-20180.702
HotpotQA0.609
MS MARCO0.849
NFCorpus0.315
NQ0.786
Quora0.995
SCIDOCS0.497
SciFact0.911
TREC-COVID0.129
Webis-Touche-20200.427

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

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