SentenceTransformer based on Model Distillation

In this experiment with knowledge distillation for embedding models, i retained 8 layers from the teacher model. This is an attempt to create a lighter, faster version.

• the top left graph shows how well your model's predictions match reality. Spearman correlation = 0.887
• the top right compares the correlation performance of this model vs the reference(mxbai-embed-large-v1) model - both bars around 0.8-0.9
• bottom left shows, this model processes about 45 samples/s and mxbai-embed-large-v1 processes about 30 samples/s.
• the bottom right shows a small accuracy drop for this model.

Model Details

Model Description

• Model Type: Sentence Transformer
• Base model: mixedbread-ai/mxbai-embed-large-v1
• Maximum Sequence Length: 512 tokens
• Output Dimensionality: 1024 dimensions
• Similarity Function: Cosine Similarity

Full Model Architecture

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 512, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: BertModel 
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 1024, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': True, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_weightedmean_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_lasttoken': False, 'include_prompt': True})
)

Usage

Direct Usage (Sentence Transformers)

First install the Sentence Transformers library:

pip install -U sentence-transformers

Then you can load this model and run inference.

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SentenceTransformer("sentence_transformers_model_id")
# Run inference
sentences = [
    'A black dog is drinking next to a brown and white dog that is looking at an orange ball in the lake, whilst a horse and rider passes behind.',
    'Some men with jerseys are in a bar, watching a soccer match.',
    'There are two people running around a track in lane three and the one wearing a blue shirt with a green thing over the eyes is just barely ahead of the guy wearing an orange shirt and sunglasses.',
]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings.shape)
# [3, 1024]

# Get the similarity scores for the embeddings
similarities = model.similarity(embeddings, embeddings)
print(similarities.shape)
# [3, 3]

Evaluation

Metrics

Semantic Similarity

• Datasets: sts-dev and sts-test
• Evaluated with EmbeddingSimilarityEvaluator

Knowledge Distillation

• Evaluated with MSEEvaluator

Training Details

Training Dataset

Unnamed Dataset

• Size: 1,195,425 training samples
• Columns: sentence and label
• Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples:

  	sentence	label
  type	string	list
  details	min: 4 tokensmean: 12.24 tokensmax: 52 tokens	size: 1024 elements

• Samples:

  sentence	label
  A person on a horse jumps over a broken down airplane.	[-0.012967385351657867, 0.3716000020503998, 0.252520889043808, 0.7052643299102783, -0.15118499100208282, ...]
  Children smiling and waving at camera	[0.15414997935295105, 0.6666896939277649, -0.3150098919868469, 1.0102407932281494, 0.4113735556602478, ...]
  A boy is jumping on skateboard in the middle of a red bridge.	[-0.2989530563354492, 0.8571284413337708, -0.48532426357269287, 0.8935043215751648, 0.28524795174598694, ...]

• Loss: MSELoss

Evaluation Dataset

Unnamed Dataset

• Size: 10,000 evaluation samples
• Columns: sentence and label
• Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples:

  	sentence	label
  type	string	list
  details	min: 5 tokensmean: 13.23 tokensmax: 57 tokens	size: 1024 elements

• Samples:

  sentence	label
  Two women are embracing while holding to go packages.	[-0.35094621777534485, 0.4337681233882904, 0.22905530035495758, 0.9438946843147278, -1.0199058055877686, ...]
  Two young children in blue jerseys, one with the number 9 and one with the number 2 are standing on wooden steps in a bathroom and washing their hands in a sink.	[-0.37593328952789307, 0.6690596342086792, -0.14921458065509796, 0.7559019923210144, -0.4093412756919861, ...]
  A man selling donuts to a customer during a world exhibition event held in the city of Angeles	[0.21969863772392273, 0.5065202713012695, -0.25664886832237244, 0.2569092810153961, -0.05940837413072586, ...]

• Loss: MSELoss

Training Hyperparameters

Non-Default Hyperparameters

• eval_strategy: steps
• per_device_train_batch_size: 64
• per_device_eval_batch_size: 64
• learning_rate: 0.0001
• num_train_epochs: 1
• warmup_ratio: 0.1
• fp16: True
• load_best_model_at_end: True

All Hyperparameters

• overwrite_output_dir: False
• do_predict: False
• eval_strategy: steps
• prediction_loss_only: True
• per_device_train_batch_size: 64
• per_device_eval_batch_size: 64
• per_gpu_train_batch_size: None
• per_gpu_eval_batch_size: None
• gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
• eval_accumulation_steps: None
• torch_empty_cache_steps: None
• learning_rate: 0.0001
• weight_decay: 0.0
• adam_beta1: 0.9
• adam_beta2: 0.999
• adam_epsilon: 1e-08
• max_grad_norm: 1.0
• num_train_epochs: 1
• max_steps: -1
• lr_scheduler_type: linear
• lr_scheduler_kwargs: {}
• warmup_ratio: 0.1
• warmup_steps: 0
• log_level: passive
• log_level_replica: warning
• log_on_each_node: True
• logging_nan_inf_filter: True
• save_safetensors: True
• save_on_each_node: False
• save_only_model: False
• restore_callback_states_from_checkpoint: False
• no_cuda: False
• use_cpu: False
• use_mps_device: False
• seed: 42
• data_seed: None
• jit_mode_eval: False
• use_ipex: False
• bf16: False
• fp16: True
• fp16_opt_level: O1
• half_precision_backend: auto
• bf16_full_eval: False
• fp16_full_eval: False
• tf32: None
• local_rank: 0
• ddp_backend: None
• tpu_num_cores: None
• tpu_metrics_debug: False
• debug: []
• dataloader_drop_last: False
• dataloader_num_workers: 0
• dataloader_prefetch_factor: None
• past_index: -1
• disable_tqdm: False
• remove_unused_columns: True
• label_names: None
• load_best_model_at_end: True
• ignore_data_skip: False
• fsdp: []
• fsdp_min_num_params: 0
• fsdp_config: {'min_num_params': 0, 'xla': False, 'xla_fsdp_v2': False, 'xla_fsdp_grad_ckpt': False}
• fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: None
• accelerator_config: {'split_batches': False, 'dispatch_batches': None, 'even_batches': True, 'use_seedable_sampler': True, 'non_blocking': False, 'gradient_accumulation_kwargs': None}
• deepspeed: None
• label_smoothing_factor: 0.0
• optim: adamw_torch
• optim_args: None
• adafactor: False
• group_by_length: False
• length_column_name: length
• ddp_find_unused_parameters: None
• ddp_bucket_cap_mb: None
• ddp_broadcast_buffers: False
• dataloader_pin_memory: True
• dataloader_persistent_workers: False
• skip_memory_metrics: True
• use_legacy_prediction_loop: False
• push_to_hub: False
• resume_from_checkpoint: None
• hub_model_id: None
• hub_strategy: every_save
• hub_private_repo: False
• hub_always_push: False
• gradient_checkpointing: False
• gradient_checkpointing_kwargs: None
• include_inputs_for_metrics: False
• include_for_metrics: []
• eval_do_concat_batches: True
• fp16_backend: auto
• push_to_hub_model_id: None
• push_to_hub_organization: None
• mp_parameters:
• auto_find_batch_size: False
• full_determinism: False
• torchdynamo: None
• ray_scope: last
• ddp_timeout: 1800
• torch_compile: False
• torch_compile_backend: None
• torch_compile_mode: None
• dispatch_batches: None
• split_batches: None
• include_tokens_per_second: False
• include_num_input_tokens_seen: False
• neftune_noise_alpha: None
• optim_target_modules: None
• batch_eval_metrics: False
• eval_on_start: False
• use_liger_kernel: False
• eval_use_gather_object: False
• average_tokens_across_devices: False
• prompts: None
• batch_sampler: batch_sampler
• multi_dataset_batch_sampler: proportional

Framework Versions

• Python: 3.10.14
• Sentence Transformers: 3.3.1
• Transformers: 4.46.3
• PyTorch: 2.4.0
• Accelerate: 1.1.1
• Datasets: 3.1.0
• Tokenizers: 0.20.3

Citation

BibTeX

Sentence Transformers

@inproceedings{reimers-2019-sentence-bert,
    title = "Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks",
    author = "Reimers, Nils and Gurevych, Iryna",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = "11",
    year = "2019",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10084",
}

MSELoss

@inproceedings{reimers-2020-multilingual-sentence-bert,
    title = "Making Monolingual Sentence Embeddings Multilingual using Knowledge Distillation",
    author = "Reimers, Nils and Gurevych, Iryna",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = "11",
    year = "2020",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09813",
}