This is a SetFit model that can be used for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA). This SetFit model uses sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 as the Sentence Transformer embedding model. A LogisticRegression instance is used for classification. In particular, this model is in charge of filtering aspect span candidates.

The model has been trained using an efficient few-shot learning technique that involves:

Fine-tuning a Sentence Transformer with contrastive learning.
Training a classification head with features from the fine-tuned Sentence Transformer.

This model was trained within the context of a larger system for ABSA, which looks like so:

Use a spaCy model to select possible aspect span candidates.
Use this SetFit model to filter these possible aspect span candidates.
Use a SetFit model to classify the filtered aspect span candidates.

Model Details

Model Description

Model Type: SetFit
Sentence Transformer body: sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
Classification head: a LogisticRegression instance
spaCy Model: en_core_web_sm
SetFitABSA Aspect Model: joychanya/setfit-absa-bge-small-en-v1.5-restaurants-aspect
SetFitABSA Polarity Model: joychanya/setfit-absa-bge-small-en-v1.5-restaurants-polarity
Maximum Sequence Length: 256 tokens
Number of Classes: 2 classes

Model Sources

Repository: SetFit on GitHub
Paper: Efficient Few-Shot Learning Without Prompts
Blogpost: SetFit: Efficient Few-Shot Learning Without Prompts

Model Labels

Label

Examples

aspect

'staff:But the staff was so horrible to us.'
"food:To be completely fair, the only redeeming factor was the food, which was above average, but couldn't make up for all the other deficiencies of Teodora."
"food:The food is uniformly exceptional, with a very capable kitchen which will proudly whip up whatever you feel like eating, whether it's on the menu or not."

no aspect

"factor:To be completely fair, the only redeeming factor was the food, which was above average, but couldn't make up for all the other deficiencies of Teodora."
"deficiencies:To be completely fair, the only redeeming factor was the food, which was above average, but couldn't make up for all the other deficiencies of Teodora."
"Teodora:To be completely fair, the only redeeming factor was the food, which was above average, but couldn't make up for all the other deficiencies of Teodora."

Evaluation

Metrics

Label	Accuracy
all	0.8502

Uses

Direct Use for Inference

First install the SetFit library:

pip install setfit

Then you can load this model and run inference.

python

from setfit import AbsaModel

# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = AbsaModel.from_pretrained(
    "joychanya/setfit-absa-bge-small-en-v1.5-restaurants-aspect",
    "joychanya/setfit-absa-bge-small-en-v1.5-restaurants-polarity",
)
# Run inference
preds = model("The food was great, but the venue is just way too busy.")

Training Details

Training Set Metrics

Training set	Min	Median	Max
Word count	4	17.915	37

Label	Training Sample Count
no aspect	72
aspect	128

Training Hyperparameters

batch_size: (128, 128)
num_epochs: (5, 5)
max_steps: -1
sampling_strategy: oversampling
body_learning_rate: (2e-05, 1e-05)
head_learning_rate: 0.01
loss: CosineSimilarityLoss
distance_metric: cosine_distance
margin: 0.25
end_to_end: False
use_amp: True
warmup_proportion: 0.1
l2_weight: 0.01
seed: 42
eval_max_steps: -1
load_best_model_at_end: True

Training Results

Epoch	Step	Training Loss	Validation Loss
0.0058	1	0.2746	-
0.2924	50	0.2771	0.2563
0.5848	100	0.1821	0.2233
0.8772	150	0.0216	0.2231
1.1696	200	0.0028	0.2303
1.4620	250	0.0017	0.2352
1.7544	300	0.0011	0.2370
2.0468	350	0.0009	0.2363
2.3392	400	0.0005	0.2356

Framework Versions

Python: 3.11.12
SetFit: 1.1.2
Sentence Transformers: 3.4.1
spaCy: 3.7.5
Transformers: 4.51.3
PyTorch: 2.6.0+cu124
Datasets: 3.5.1
Tokenizers: 0.21.1

Citation

BibTeX

bibtex

@article{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2209.11055,
    doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2209.11055},
    url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11055},
    author = {Tunstall, Lewis and Reimers, Nils and Jo, Unso Eun Seo and Bates, Luke and Korat, Daniel and Wasserblat, Moshe and Pereg, Oren},
    keywords = {Computation and Language (cs.CL), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
    title = {Efficient Few-Shot Learning Without Prompts},
    publisher = {arXiv},
    year = {2022},
    copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
}