Smarter, Better, Faster, Longer: A Modern Bidirectional Encoder for Fast, Memory Efficient, and Long Context Finetuning and Inference
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After some heated discussion 🔥, we clarify our intent re. storage limits on the Hub
TL;DR:
- public storage is free, and (unless blatant abuse) unlimited. We do ask that you consider upgrading to PRO and/or Enterprise Hub if possible
- private storage is paid above a significant free tier (1TB if you have a paid account, 100GB otherwise)
docs: https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/storage-limits
We optimize our infrastructure continuously to scale our storage for the coming years of growth in Machine learning, to the benefit of the community 🔥
cc: @reach-vb @pierric @victor and the HF team
TL;DR:
- public storage is free, and (unless blatant abuse) unlimited. We do ask that you consider upgrading to PRO and/or Enterprise Hub if possible
- private storage is paid above a significant free tier (1TB if you have a paid account, 100GB otherwise)
docs: https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/storage-limits
We optimize our infrastructure continuously to scale our storage for the coming years of growth in Machine learning, to the benefit of the community 🔥
cc: @reach-vb @pierric @victor and the HF team
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🌐 The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (https://aiindex.stanford.edu/vibrancy/) has released its 2024 Global AI Vibrancy Tool, a way to explore and compare AI progress across 36 countries.
📊 It measures progress across the 8 broad pillars of R&D, Responsible AI, Economy, Education, Diversity, Policy and Governance, Public Opinion and Infrastructure. (Each of these pillars have a number of Sub Indices)
📈 As a whole it is not surprising that the USA was at the top in terms of overall score as of 2023 (AI investment activity is a large part of the economic pillar for example and that is a large part of the overall USA ranking) but drilling in to more STRATEGIC Macro pillars like Education, Infrastructure or R&D reveal interesting growth patterns in Asia (particularly China) and Western Europe that I suspect the 2024 metrics will bear out.
🤖 Hopefully the 2024 Global Vibrancy ranking will break out AI and ML verticals like Computer Vision or NLP and or the AI Agent space as that may also from a global macro level give indications of what is to come globally for AI in 2025.
📊 It measures progress across the 8 broad pillars of R&D, Responsible AI, Economy, Education, Diversity, Policy and Governance, Public Opinion and Infrastructure. (Each of these pillars have a number of Sub Indices)
📈 As a whole it is not surprising that the USA was at the top in terms of overall score as of 2023 (AI investment activity is a large part of the economic pillar for example and that is a large part of the overall USA ranking) but drilling in to more STRATEGIC Macro pillars like Education, Infrastructure or R&D reveal interesting growth patterns in Asia (particularly China) and Western Europe that I suspect the 2024 metrics will bear out.
🤖 Hopefully the 2024 Global Vibrancy ranking will break out AI and ML verticals like Computer Vision or NLP and or the AI Agent space as that may also from a global macro level give indications of what is to come globally for AI in 2025.
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wow 😮
INTELLECT-1 is the first collaboratively trained 10 billion parameter language model trained from scratch on 1 trillion tokens of English text and code.
PrimeIntellect/INTELLECT-1-Instruct
INTELLECT-1 is the first collaboratively trained 10 billion parameter language model trained from scratch on 1 trillion tokens of English text and code.
PrimeIntellect/INTELLECT-1-Instruct
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🤖💻 Function Calling is a key component of Agent workflows. To call functions, an LLM needs a way to interact with other systems and run code. This usually means connecting it to a runtime environment that can handle function calls, data, and security.
Per the Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard there are only 2 fully open source models (The other 2 in the top 20 that are not closed source have cc-by-nc-4.0 licenses) out of the top 20 models that currently have function calling built in as of 17 Nov 2024.
https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html
The 2 Open Source Models out of the top 20 that currently support function calling are:
meetkai/functionary-medium-v3.1
Team-ACE/ToolACE-8B
This is a both a huge disadvantage AND an opportunity for the Open Source community as Enterprises, Small Business, Government Agencies etc. quickly adopt Agents and Agent workflows over the next few months. Open Source will have a lot of catching up to do as Enterprises will be hesitant to switch from the closed source models that they may initially build their Agent workflows on in the next few months to an open source alternative later.
Hopefully more open source models will support function calling in the near future.
Per the Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard there are only 2 fully open source models (The other 2 in the top 20 that are not closed source have cc-by-nc-4.0 licenses) out of the top 20 models that currently have function calling built in as of 17 Nov 2024.
https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html
The 2 Open Source Models out of the top 20 that currently support function calling are:
meetkai/functionary-medium-v3.1
Team-ACE/ToolACE-8B
This is a both a huge disadvantage AND an opportunity for the Open Source community as Enterprises, Small Business, Government Agencies etc. quickly adopt Agents and Agent workflows over the next few months. Open Source will have a lot of catching up to do as Enterprises will be hesitant to switch from the closed source models that they may initially build their Agent workflows on in the next few months to an open source alternative later.
Hopefully more open source models will support function calling in the near future.
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🚨 How green is your model? 🌱 Introducing a new feature in the Comparator tool: Environmental Impact for responsible #LLM research!
👉 open-llm-leaderboard/comparator
Now, you can not only compare models by performance, but also by their environmental footprint!
🌍 The Comparator calculates CO₂ emissions during evaluation and shows key model characteristics: evaluation score, number of parameters, architecture, precision, type... 🛠️
Make informed decisions about your model's impact on the planet and join the movement towards greener AI!
👉 open-llm-leaderboard/comparator
Now, you can not only compare models by performance, but also by their environmental footprint!
🌍 The Comparator calculates CO₂ emissions during evaluation and shows key model characteristics: evaluation score, number of parameters, architecture, precision, type... 🛠️
Make informed decisions about your model's impact on the planet and join the movement towards greener AI!
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I just released Sentence Transformers v3.3.0 & it's huge! 4.5x speedup for CPU with OpenVINO int8 static quantization, training with prompts for a free perf. boost, PEFT integration, evaluation on NanoBEIR, and more! Details:
1. We integrate Post-Training Static Quantization using OpenVINO, a very efficient solution for CPUs that processes 4.78x as many texts per second on average, while only hurting performance by 0.36% on average. There's a new
2. We add the option to train with prompts, e.g. strings like "query: ", "search_document: " or "Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages: ". It's as simple as using the
3. Sentence Transformers now supports training PEFT adapters via 7 new methods for adding new adapters or loading pre-trained ones. You can also directly load a trained adapter with SentenceTransformer as if it's a normal model. Very useful for e.g. 1) training multiple adapters on 1 base model, 2) training bigger models than otherwise possible, or 3) cheaply hosting multiple models by switching multiple adapters on 1 base model.
4. We added easy evaluation on NanoBEIR, a subset of BEIR a.k.a. the MTEB Retrieval benchmark. It contains 13 datasets with 50 queries and up to 10k documents each. Evaluation is fast, and can easily be done during training to track your model's performance on general-purpose information retrieval tasks.
Additionally, we also deprecate Python 3.8, add better compatibility with Transformers v4.46.0, and more. Read the full release notes here: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/tag/v3.3.0
1. We integrate Post-Training Static Quantization using OpenVINO, a very efficient solution for CPUs that processes 4.78x as many texts per second on average, while only hurting performance by 0.36% on average. There's a new
export_static_quantized_openvino_model method to quantize a model.2. We add the option to train with prompts, e.g. strings like "query: ", "search_document: " or "Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages: ". It's as simple as using the
prompts argument in SentenceTransformerTrainingArguments. Our experiments show that you can easily reach 0.66% to 0.90% relative performance improvement on NDCG@10 at no extra cost by adding "query: " before each training query and "document: " before each training answer.3. Sentence Transformers now supports training PEFT adapters via 7 new methods for adding new adapters or loading pre-trained ones. You can also directly load a trained adapter with SentenceTransformer as if it's a normal model. Very useful for e.g. 1) training multiple adapters on 1 base model, 2) training bigger models than otherwise possible, or 3) cheaply hosting multiple models by switching multiple adapters on 1 base model.
4. We added easy evaluation on NanoBEIR, a subset of BEIR a.k.a. the MTEB Retrieval benchmark. It contains 13 datasets with 50 queries and up to 10k documents each. Evaluation is fast, and can easily be done during training to track your model's performance on general-purpose information retrieval tasks.
Additionally, we also deprecate Python 3.8, add better compatibility with Transformers v4.46.0, and more. Read the full release notes here: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/tag/v3.3.0
albertvillanova
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🚀 New feature of the Comparator of the 🤗 Open LLM Leaderboard: now compare models with their base versions & derivatives (finetunes, adapters, etc.). Perfect for tracking how adjustments affect performance & seeing innovations in action. Dive deeper into the leaderboard!
🛠️ Here's how to use it:
1. Select your model from the leaderboard.
2. Load its model tree.
3. Choose any base & derived models (adapters, finetunes, merges, quantizations) for comparison.
4. Press Load.
See side-by-side performance metrics instantly!
Ready to dive in? 🏆 Try the 🤗 Open LLM Leaderboard Comparator now! See how models stack up against their base versions and derivatives to understand fine-tuning and other adjustments. Easier model analysis for better insights! Check it out here: open-llm-leaderboard/comparator 🌐
🛠️ Here's how to use it:
1. Select your model from the leaderboard.
2. Load its model tree.
3. Choose any base & derived models (adapters, finetunes, merges, quantizations) for comparison.
4. Press Load.
See side-by-side performance metrics instantly!
Ready to dive in? 🏆 Try the 🤗 Open LLM Leaderboard Comparator now! See how models stack up against their base versions and derivatives to understand fine-tuning and other adjustments. Easier model analysis for better insights! Check it out here: open-llm-leaderboard/comparator 🌐
albertvillanova
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🚀 Exciting update! You can now compare multiple models side-by-side with the Hugging Face Open LLM Comparator! 📊
open-llm-leaderboard/comparator
Dive into multi-model evaluations, pinpoint the best model for your needs, and explore insights across top open LLMs all in one place. Ready to level up your model comparison game?
open-llm-leaderboard/comparator
Dive into multi-model evaluations, pinpoint the best model for your needs, and explore insights across top open LLMs all in one place. Ready to level up your model comparison game?
albertvillanova
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🚨 Instruct-tuning impacts models differently across families! Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct excels on IFEval but struggles with MATH-Hard, while Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct avoids MATH performance loss! Why? Can they follow the format in examples? 📊 Compare models:
open-llm-leaderboard/comparator
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The Mystery Bot 🕵️♂️ saga I posted about from earlier this week has been solved...🤗
Cohere for AI has just announced its open source Aya Expanse multilingual model. The Initial release supports 23 languages with more on the way soon.🌌 🌍
You can also try Aya Expanse via SMS on your mobile phone using the global WhatsApp number or one of the initial set of country specific numbers listed below.⬇️
🌍WhatsApp - +14313028498
Germany - (+49) 1771786365
USA – +18332746219
United Kingdom — (+44) 7418373332
Canada – (+1) 2044107115
Netherlands – (+31) 97006520757
Brazil — (+55) 11950110169
Portugal – (+351) 923249773
Italy – (+39) 3399950813
Poland - (+48) 459050281
Cohere for AI has just announced its open source Aya Expanse multilingual model. The Initial release supports 23 languages with more on the way soon.🌌 🌍
You can also try Aya Expanse via SMS on your mobile phone using the global WhatsApp number or one of the initial set of country specific numbers listed below.⬇️
🌍WhatsApp - +14313028498
Germany - (+49) 1771786365
USA – +18332746219
United Kingdom — (+44) 7418373332
Canada – (+1) 2044107115
Netherlands – (+31) 97006520757
Brazil — (+55) 11950110169
Portugal – (+351) 923249773
Italy – (+39) 3399950813
Poland - (+48) 459050281
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albertvillanova
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Finding the Best SmolLM for Your Project
Need an LLM assistant but unsure which hashtag#smolLM to run locally? With so many models available, how can you decide which one suits your needs best? 🤔
If the model you’re interested in is evaluated on the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard, there’s an easy way to compare them: use the model Comparator tool: open-llm-leaderboard/comparator
Let’s walk through an example👇
Let’s compare two solid options:
- Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct from Alibaba Cloud Qwen (1.5B params)
- gemma-2-2b-it from Google (2.5B params)
For an assistant, you want a model that’s great at instruction following. So, how do these two models stack up on the IFEval task?
What about other evaluations?
Both models are close in performance on many other tasks, showing minimal differences. Surprisingly, the 1.5B Qwen model performs just as well as the 2.5B Gemma in many areas, even though it's smaller in size! 📊
This is a great example of how parameter size isn’t everything. With efficient design and training, a smaller model like Qwen2.5-1.5B can match or even surpass larger models in certain tasks.
Looking for other comparisons? Drop your model suggestions below! 👇
Need an LLM assistant but unsure which hashtag#smolLM to run locally? With so many models available, how can you decide which one suits your needs best? 🤔
If the model you’re interested in is evaluated on the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard, there’s an easy way to compare them: use the model Comparator tool: open-llm-leaderboard/comparator
Let’s walk through an example👇
Let’s compare two solid options:
- Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct from Alibaba Cloud Qwen (1.5B params)
- gemma-2-2b-it from Google (2.5B params)
For an assistant, you want a model that’s great at instruction following. So, how do these two models stack up on the IFEval task?
What about other evaluations?
Both models are close in performance on many other tasks, showing minimal differences. Surprisingly, the 1.5B Qwen model performs just as well as the 2.5B Gemma in many areas, even though it's smaller in size! 📊
This is a great example of how parameter size isn’t everything. With efficient design and training, a smaller model like Qwen2.5-1.5B can match or even surpass larger models in certain tasks.
Looking for other comparisons? Drop your model suggestions below! 👇
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Spent the weekend testing out some prompts with 🕵️♂️Mystery Bot🕵️♂️ on my mobile... exciting things are coming soon for the following languages:
🌐Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese!🌐
🌐Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese!🌐
albertvillanova
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🚨 We’ve just released a new tool to compare the performance of models in the 🤗 Open LLM Leaderboard: the Comparator 🎉
open-llm-leaderboard/comparator
Want to see how two different versions of LLaMA stack up? Let’s walk through a step-by-step comparison of LLaMA-3.1 and LLaMA-3.2. 🦙🧵👇
1/ Load the Models' Results
- Go to the 🤗 Open LLM Leaderboard Comparator: open-llm-leaderboard/comparator
- Search for "LLaMA-3.1" and "LLaMA-3.2" in the model dropdowns.
- Press the Load button. Ready to dive into the results!
2/ Compare Metric Results in the Results Tab 📊
- Head over to the Results tab.
- Here, you’ll see the performance metrics for each model, beautifully color-coded using a gradient to highlight performance differences: greener is better! 🌟
- Want to focus on a specific task? Use the Task filter to hone in on comparisons for tasks like BBH or MMLU-Pro.
3/ Check Config Alignment in the Configs Tab ⚙️
- To ensure you’re comparing apples to apples, head to the Configs tab.
- Review both models’ evaluation configurations, such as metrics, datasets, prompts, few-shot configs...
- If something looks off, it’s good to know before drawing conclusions! ✅
4/ Compare Predictions by Sample in the Details Tab 🔍
- Curious about how each model responds to specific inputs? The Details tab is your go-to!
- Select a Task (e.g., MuSR) and then a Subtask (e.g., Murder Mystery) and then press the Load Details button.
- Check out the side-by-side predictions and dive into the nuances of each model’s outputs.
5/ With this tool, it’s never been easier to explore how small changes between model versions affect performance on a wide range of tasks. Whether you’re a researcher or enthusiast, you can instantly visualize improvements and dive into detailed comparisons.
🚀 Try the 🤗 Open LLM Leaderboard Comparator now and take your model evaluations to the next level!
open-llm-leaderboard/comparator
Want to see how two different versions of LLaMA stack up? Let’s walk through a step-by-step comparison of LLaMA-3.1 and LLaMA-3.2. 🦙🧵👇
1/ Load the Models' Results
- Go to the 🤗 Open LLM Leaderboard Comparator: open-llm-leaderboard/comparator
- Search for "LLaMA-3.1" and "LLaMA-3.2" in the model dropdowns.
- Press the Load button. Ready to dive into the results!
2/ Compare Metric Results in the Results Tab 📊
- Head over to the Results tab.
- Here, you’ll see the performance metrics for each model, beautifully color-coded using a gradient to highlight performance differences: greener is better! 🌟
- Want to focus on a specific task? Use the Task filter to hone in on comparisons for tasks like BBH or MMLU-Pro.
3/ Check Config Alignment in the Configs Tab ⚙️
- To ensure you’re comparing apples to apples, head to the Configs tab.
- Review both models’ evaluation configurations, such as metrics, datasets, prompts, few-shot configs...
- If something looks off, it’s good to know before drawing conclusions! ✅
4/ Compare Predictions by Sample in the Details Tab 🔍
- Curious about how each model responds to specific inputs? The Details tab is your go-to!
- Select a Task (e.g., MuSR) and then a Subtask (e.g., Murder Mystery) and then press the Load Details button.
- Check out the side-by-side predictions and dive into the nuances of each model’s outputs.
5/ With this tool, it’s never been easier to explore how small changes between model versions affect performance on a wide range of tasks. Whether you’re a researcher or enthusiast, you can instantly visualize improvements and dive into detailed comparisons.
🚀 Try the 🤗 Open LLM Leaderboard Comparator now and take your model evaluations to the next level!
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📣 Sentence Transformers v3.2.0 is out, marking the biggest release for inference in 2 years! 2 new backends for embedding models: ONNX (+ optimization & quantization) and OpenVINO, allowing for speedups up to 2x-3x AND Static Embeddings for 500x speedups at 10-20% accuracy cost.
1️⃣ ONNX Backend: This backend uses the ONNX Runtime to accelerate model inference on both CPU and GPU, reaching up to 1.4x-3x speedup depending on the precision. We also introduce 2 helper methods for optimizing and quantizing models for (much) faster inference.
2️⃣ OpenVINO Backend: This backend uses Intel their OpenVINO instead, outperforming ONNX in some situations on CPU.
Usage is as simple as
🔒 Another major new feature is Static Embeddings: think word embeddings like GLoVe and word2vec, but modernized. Static Embeddings are bags of token embeddings that are summed together to create text embeddings, allowing for lightning-fast embeddings that don't require any neural networks. They're initialized in one of 2 ways:
1️⃣ via Model2Vec, a new technique for distilling any Sentence Transformer models into static embeddings. Either via a pre-distilled model with
2️⃣ Random initialization. This requires finetuning, but finetuning is extremely quick (e.g. I trained with 3 million pairs in 7 minutes). My final model was 6.6% worse than bge-base-en-v1.5, but 500x faster on CPU.
Full release notes: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/tag/v3.2.0
Documentation on Speeding up Inference: https://sbert.net/docs/sentence_transformer/usage/efficiency.html
1️⃣ ONNX Backend: This backend uses the ONNX Runtime to accelerate model inference on both CPU and GPU, reaching up to 1.4x-3x speedup depending on the precision. We also introduce 2 helper methods for optimizing and quantizing models for (much) faster inference.
2️⃣ OpenVINO Backend: This backend uses Intel their OpenVINO instead, outperforming ONNX in some situations on CPU.
Usage is as simple as
SentenceTransformer("all-MiniLM-L6-v2", backend="onnx"). Does your model not have an ONNX or OpenVINO file yet? No worries - it'll be autoexported for you. Thank me later 😉🔒 Another major new feature is Static Embeddings: think word embeddings like GLoVe and word2vec, but modernized. Static Embeddings are bags of token embeddings that are summed together to create text embeddings, allowing for lightning-fast embeddings that don't require any neural networks. They're initialized in one of 2 ways:
1️⃣ via Model2Vec, a new technique for distilling any Sentence Transformer models into static embeddings. Either via a pre-distilled model with
from_model2vec or with from_distillation where you do the distillation yourself. It'll only take 5 seconds on GPU & 2 minutes on CPU, no dataset needed.2️⃣ Random initialization. This requires finetuning, but finetuning is extremely quick (e.g. I trained with 3 million pairs in 7 minutes). My final model was 6.6% worse than bge-base-en-v1.5, but 500x faster on CPU.
Full release notes: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/tag/v3.2.0
Documentation on Speeding up Inference: https://sbert.net/docs/sentence_transformer/usage/efficiency.html
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We have published an excellent paper for Arabic CLIP model.
Paper link:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.9/
More information in this website:
https://arabic-clip.github.io/Arabic-CLIP/
All datasets, models, and demo are published to Huggingface:
https://huggingface.co/Arabic-Clip
The codes are published to github:
https://github.com/Arabic-Clip/Arabic-CLIP
Paper link:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.9/
More information in this website:
https://arabic-clip.github.io/Arabic-CLIP/
All datasets, models, and demo are published to Huggingface:
https://huggingface.co/Arabic-Clip
The codes are published to github:
https://github.com/Arabic-Clip/Arabic-CLIP
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I've just shipped the Sentence Transformers v3.1.1 patch release, fixing the hard negatives mining utility for some models. This utility is extremely useful to get more performance out of your embedding training data.
⛏ Hard negatives are texts that are rather similar to some anchor text (e.g. a query), but are not the correct match. They're difficult for a model to distinguish from the correct answer, often resulting in a stronger model after training.
🔓 Beyond that, this release removes the numpy<2 restriction from v3.1.0. This was previously required for Windows as not all third-party libraries were updated to support numpy v2. With Sentence Transformers, you can now choose v1 or v2 of numpy.
Check out the full release notes here: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/tag/v3.1.1
I'm looking forward to releasing v3.2, I have some exciting things planned 🚀
⛏ Hard negatives are texts that are rather similar to some anchor text (e.g. a query), but are not the correct match. They're difficult for a model to distinguish from the correct answer, often resulting in a stronger model after training.
mine_hard_negatives docs: https://sbert.net/docs/package_reference/util.html#sentence_transformers.util.mine_hard_negatives🔓 Beyond that, this release removes the numpy<2 restriction from v3.1.0. This was previously required for Windows as not all third-party libraries were updated to support numpy v2. With Sentence Transformers, you can now choose v1 or v2 of numpy.
Check out the full release notes here: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/tag/v3.1.1
I'm looking forward to releasing v3.2, I have some exciting things planned 🚀
albertvillanova
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Check out the new Structured #Wikipedia dataset by Wikimedia Enterprise: abstract, infobox, structured sections, main image,...
Currently in early beta (English & French). Explore it and give feedback: wikimedia/structured-wikipedia
More info: https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/hugging-face-dataset/
@sdelbecque @resquito-wmf
Currently in early beta (English & French). Explore it and give feedback: wikimedia/structured-wikipedia
More info: https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/hugging-face-dataset/
@sdelbecque @resquito-wmf
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🎉SetFit v1.1.0 is out! Training efficient classifiers on CPU or GPU now uses the Sentence Transformers Trainer, and we resolved a lot of issues caused by updates of third-party libraries (like Transformers). Details:
Training a SetFit classifier model consists of 2 phases:
1. Finetuning a Sentence Transformer embedding model
2. Training a Classifier to map embeddings -> classes
🔌The first phase now uses the SentenceTransformerTrainer that was introduced in the Sentence Transformers v3 update. This brings some immediate upsides like MultiGPU support, without any (intended) breaking changes.
➡️ Beyond that, we softly deprecated the "evaluation_strategy" argument in favor of "eval_strategy" (following a Transformers deprecation), and deprecated Python 3.7. In return, we add official support for Python 3.11 and 3.12.
✨ There's some more minor changes too, like max_steps and eval_max_steps now being a hard limit instead of an approximate one, training/validation losses now logging nicely in Notebooks, and the "device" parameter no longer being ignored in some situations.
Check out the full release notes here: https://github.com/huggingface/setfit/releases/tag/v1.1.0
Or read the documentation: https://huggingface.co/docs/setfit
Or check out the public SetFit models for inspiration: https://huggingface.co/models?library=setfit&sort=created
P.s. the model in the code snippet trained in 1 minute and it can classify ~6000 sentences per second on my GPU.
Training a SetFit classifier model consists of 2 phases:
1. Finetuning a Sentence Transformer embedding model
2. Training a Classifier to map embeddings -> classes
🔌The first phase now uses the SentenceTransformerTrainer that was introduced in the Sentence Transformers v3 update. This brings some immediate upsides like MultiGPU support, without any (intended) breaking changes.
➡️ Beyond that, we softly deprecated the "evaluation_strategy" argument in favor of "eval_strategy" (following a Transformers deprecation), and deprecated Python 3.7. In return, we add official support for Python 3.11 and 3.12.
✨ There's some more minor changes too, like max_steps and eval_max_steps now being a hard limit instead of an approximate one, training/validation losses now logging nicely in Notebooks, and the "device" parameter no longer being ignored in some situations.
Check out the full release notes here: https://github.com/huggingface/setfit/releases/tag/v1.1.0
Or read the documentation: https://huggingface.co/docs/setfit
Or check out the public SetFit models for inspiration: https://huggingface.co/models?library=setfit&sort=created
P.s. the model in the code snippet trained in 1 minute and it can classify ~6000 sentences per second on my GPU.