sparse-encoder/example-splade-cocondenser-ensembledistil-sts

splade-cocondenser-ensembledistil trained on

This is a SPLADE Sparse Encoder model finetuned from naver/splade-cocondenser-ensembledistil on the stsb dataset using the sentence-transformers library. It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 30522-dimensional sparse vector space and can be used for semantic search and sparse retrieval.

Model Details

Model Description

• —Model Type: SPLADE Sparse Encoder
• —Base model: naver/splade-cocondenser-ensembledistil <!-- at revision 25178a62708a3ab1b5c4b5eb30764d65bfddcfbb -->
• —Maximum Sequence Length: 256 tokens
• —Output Dimensionality: 30522 dimensions
• —Similarity Function: Cosine Similarity
• —Training Dataset:
• —stsb
• —Language: en
• —License: apache-2.0

Model Sources

• —Documentation: Sentence Transformers Documentation
• —Documentation: Sparse Encoder Documentation
• —Repository: Sentence Transformers on GitHub
• —Hugging Face: Sparse Encoders on Hugging Face

Full Model Architecture

SparseEncoder(
  (0): MLMTransformer({'max_seq_length': 256, 'do_lower_case': False}) with MLMTransformer model: BertForMaskedLM 
  (1): SpladePooling({'pooling_strategy': 'max', 'activation_function': 'relu', 'word_embedding_dimension': 30522})
)

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 SparseEncoder

# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SparseEncoder("arthurbresnu/splade-cocondenser-ensembledistil-sts")
# Run inference
sentences = [
    'While Queen may refer to both Queen regent (sovereign) or Queen consort, the King has always been the sovereign.',
    'There is a very good reason not to refer to the Queen\'s spouse as "King" - because they aren\'t the King.',
    'A man plays the guitar.',
]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings.shape)
# (3, 30522)

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

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Evaluation

Metrics

Semantic Similarity

• —Datasets: sts-dev and sts-test
• —Evaluated with <code>SparseEmbeddingSimilarityEvaluator</code>

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Training Details

Training Dataset

stsb

• —Dataset: stsb at ab7a5ac
• —Size: 5,749 training samples
• —Columns: <code>sentence1</code>, <code>sentence2</code>, and <code>score</code>
• —Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples: | | sentence1 | sentence2 | score | |:--------|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------| | type | string | string | float | | details | <ul><li>min: 6 tokens</li><li>mean: 10.0 tokens</li><li>max: 28 tokens</li></ul> | <ul><li>min: 5 tokens</li><li>mean: 9.95 tokens</li><li>max: 25 tokens</li></ul> | <ul><li>min: 0.0</li><li>mean: 0.45</li><li>max: 1.0</li></ul> |
• —Samples: | sentence1 | sentence2 | score | |:-----------------------------------------------------------|:----------------------------------------------------------------------|:------------------| | <code>A plane is taking off.</code> | <code>An air plane is taking off.</code> | <code>1.0</code> | | <code>A man is playing a large flute.</code> | <code>A man is playing a flute.</code> | <code>0.76</code> | | <code>A man is spreading shreded cheese on a pizza.</code> | <code>A man is spreading shredded cheese on an uncooked pizza.</code> | <code>0.76</code> |
• —Loss: <code>SpladeLoss</code> with these parameters:

  {
      "loss": "SparseCosineSimilarityLoss(loss_fct='torch.nn.modules.loss.MSELoss')",
      "lambda_corpus": 0.003
  }

Evaluation Dataset

stsb

• —Dataset: stsb at ab7a5ac
• —Size: 1,500 evaluation samples
• —Columns: <code>sentence1</code>, <code>sentence2</code>, and <code>score</code>
• —Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples: | | sentence1 | sentence2 | score | |:--------|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------| | type | string | string | float | | details | <ul><li>min: 5 tokens</li><li>mean: 15.1 tokens</li><li>max: 45 tokens</li></ul> | <ul><li>min: 6 tokens</li><li>mean: 15.11 tokens</li><li>max: 53 tokens</li></ul> | <ul><li>min: 0.0</li><li>mean: 0.42</li><li>max: 1.0</li></ul> |
• —Samples: | sentence1 | sentence2 | score | |:--------------------------------------------------|:------------------------------------------------------|:------------------| | <code>A man with a hard hat is dancing.</code> | <code>A man wearing a hard hat is dancing.</code> | <code>1.0</code> | | <code>A young child is riding a horse.</code> | <code>A child is riding a horse.</code> | <code>0.95</code> | | <code>A man is feeding a mouse to a snake.</code> | <code>The man is feeding a mouse to the snake.</code> | <code>1.0</code> |
• —Loss: <code>SpladeLoss</code> with these parameters:

  {
      "loss": "SparseCosineSimilarityLoss(loss_fct='torch.nn.modules.loss.MSELoss')",
      "lambda_corpus": 0.003
  }

Training Hyperparameters

Non-Default Hyperparameters

• —eval_strategy: steps
• —per_device_train_batch_size: 16
• —per_device_eval_batch_size: 16
• —learning_rate: 4e-06
• —num_train_epochs: 1
• —bf16: True
• —batch_sampler: no_duplicates

All Hyperparameters

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• —overwrite_output_dir: False
• —do_predict: False
• —eval_strategy: steps
• —prediction_loss_only: True
• —per_device_train_batch_size: 16
• —per_device_eval_batch_size: 16
• —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: 4e-06
• —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: 0.0
• —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: True
• —fp16: False
• —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: False
• —ignore_data_skip: False
• —fsdp: []
• —fsdp_min_num_params: 0
• —fsdp_config: {'minnumparams': 0, 'xla': False, 'xlafsdpv2': False, 'xlafsdpgrad_ckpt': False}
• —tp_size: 0
• —fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: None
• —accelerator_config: {'splitbatches': False, 'dispatchbatches': None, 'evenbatches': True, 'useseedablesampler': True, 'nonblocking': False, 'gradientaccumulationkwargs': 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: None
• —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: no_duplicates
• —multi_dataset_batch_sampler: proportional

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Training Logs

Environmental Impact

Carbon emissions were measured using CodeCarbon.

• —Energy Consumed: 0.002 kWh
• —Carbon Emitted: 0.000 kg of CO2
• —Hours Used: 0.016 hours

Training Hardware

• —On Cloud: No
• —GPU Model: 1 x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU
• —CPU Model: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX with Radeon Graphics
• —RAM Size: 30.61 GB

Framework Versions

• —Python: 3.12.9
• —Sentence Transformers: 4.2.0.dev0
• —Transformers: 4.50.3
• —PyTorch: 2.6.0+cu124
• —Accelerate: 1.6.0
• —Datasets: 3.5.0
• —Tokenizers: 0.21.1

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",
}

SpladeLoss

@misc{formal2022distillationhardnegativesampling,
      title={From Distillation to Hard Negative Sampling: Making Sparse Neural IR Models More Effective},
      author={Thibault Formal and Carlos Lassance and Benjamin Piwowarski and Stéphane Clinchant},
      year={2022},
      eprint={2205.04733},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.IR},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04733},
}

FlopsLoss

@article{paria2020minimizing,
    title={Minimizing flops to learn efficient sparse representations},
    author={Paria, Biswajit and Yeh, Chih-Kuan and Yen, Ian EH and Xu, Ning and Ravikumar, Pradeep and P{'o}czos, Barnab{'a}s},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.05665},
    year={2020}
    }

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