This is a sentence-transformers model finetuned from distilbert/distilroberta-base on the all-nli dataset. It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768-dimensional dense vector space and can be used for retrieval.

Model Details

Model Description

Model Type: Sentence Transformer
Base model: distilbert/distilroberta-base
Maximum Sequence Length: 512 tokens
Output Dimensionality: 768 dimensions
Similarity Function: Cosine Similarity
Supported Modality: Text
Training Dataset:
- all-nli

Model Sources

Documentation: Sentence Transformers Documentation
Repository: Sentence Transformers on GitHub
Hugging Face: Sentence Transformers on Hugging Face

Full Model Architecture

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'transformer_task': 'feature-extraction', 'modality_config': {'text': {'method': 'forward', 'method_output_name': 'last_hidden_state'}}, 'module_output_name': 'token_embeddings', 'architecture': 'RobertaModel'})
  (1): Pooling({'embedding_dimension': 768, 'pooling_mode': 'mean', '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.

python

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SentenceTransformer("tomaarsen/distilroberta-base-nli-v2-bf16-bf16")
# Run inference
sentences = [
    'A young boy playing in the grass.',
    'There is a child in the grass.',
    'The boy is in the sand.',
]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings.shape)
# [3, 768]

# Get the similarity scores for the embeddings
similarities = model.similarity(embeddings, embeddings)
print(similarities)
# tensor([[1.0000, 0.8011, 0.8225],
#         [0.8011, 1.0000, 0.7662],
#         [0.8225, 0.7662, 1.0000]])

Evaluation

Metrics

Semantic Similarity

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

Metric	sts-dev	sts-test
pearson_cosine	0.7611	0.719
spearman_cosine	0.7909	0.7187

Training Details

Training Dataset

all-nli

Dataset: all-nli
Size: 10,000 training samples
Columns: anchor, positive, and negative

Approximate statistics based on the first 100 samples:

	anchor	positive	negative
type	string	string	string
modality	text	text	text
details	min: 8 tokens mean: 13.87 tokens max: 27 tokens	min: 6 tokens mean: 13.96 tokens max: 28 tokens	min: 7 tokens mean: 14.88 tokens max: 27 tokens

Samples:

anchor	positive	negative
`A person on a horse jumps over a broken down airplane.`	`A person is outdoors, on a horse.`	`A person is at a diner, ordering an omelette.`
`Children smiling and waving at camera`	`There are children present`	`The kids are frowning`
`A boy is jumping on skateboard in the middle of a red bridge.`	`The boy does a skateboarding trick.`	`The boy skates down the sidewalk.`

Loss: MultipleNegativesRankingLoss with these parameters:
json
1{ 2 "scale": 20.0, 3 "similarity_fct": "cos_sim", 4 "gather_across_devices": false, 5 "directions": [ 6 "query_to_doc" 7 ], 8 "partition_mode": "joint", 9 "hardness_mode": null, 10 "hardness_strength": 0.0 11}

Evaluation Dataset

all-nli

Dataset: all-nli
Size: 1,000 evaluation samples
Columns: anchor, positive, and negative

Approximate statistics based on the first 100 samples:

	anchor	positive	negative
type	string	string	string
modality	text	text	text
details	min: 7 tokens mean: 17.52 tokens max: 36 tokens	min: 5 tokens mean: 10.0 tokens max: 28 tokens	min: 5 tokens mean: 10.39 tokens max: 20 tokens

Samples:

anchor	positive	negative
`Two women are embracing while holding to go packages.`	`Two woman are holding packages.`	`The men are fighting outside a deli.`
`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.`	`Two kids in numbered jerseys wash their hands.`	`Two kids in jackets walk to school.`
`A man selling donuts to a customer during a world exhibition event held in the city of Angeles`	`A man selling donuts to a customer.`	`A woman drinks her coffee in a small cafe.`

Loss: MultipleNegativesRankingLoss with these parameters:
json
1{ 2 "scale": 20.0, 3 "similarity_fct": "cos_sim", 4 "gather_across_devices": false, 5 "directions": [ 6 "query_to_doc" 7 ], 8 "partition_mode": "joint", 9 "hardness_mode": null, 10 "hardness_strength": 0.0 11}

Training Hyperparameters

Non-Default Hyperparameters

per_device_train_batch_size: 128
num_train_epochs: 1
warmup_steps: 0.1
bf16: True
per_device_eval_batch_size: 128
batch_sampler: no_duplicates

All Hyperparameters

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per_device_train_batch_size: 128
num_train_epochs: 1
max_steps: -1
learning_rate: 5e-05
lr_scheduler_type: linear
lr_scheduler_kwargs: None
warmup_steps: 0.1
optim: adamw_torch_fused
optim_args: None
weight_decay: 0.0
adam_beta1: 0.9
adam_beta2: 0.999
adam_epsilon: 1e-08
optim_target_modules: None
gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
average_tokens_across_devices: True
max_grad_norm: 1.0
label_smoothing_factor: 0.0
bf16: True
fp16: False
bf16_full_eval: False
fp16_full_eval: False
tf32: None
gradient_checkpointing: False
gradient_checkpointing_kwargs: None
torch_compile: False
torch_compile_backend: None
torch_compile_mode: None
use_liger_kernel: False
liger_kernel_config: None
use_cache: False
neftune_noise_alpha: None
torch_empty_cache_steps: None
auto_find_batch_size: False
log_on_each_node: True
logging_nan_inf_filter: True
include_num_input_tokens_seen: no
log_level: passive
log_level_replica: warning
disable_tqdm: False
project: huggingface
trackio_space_id: None
trackio_bucket_id: None
trackio_static_space_id: None
per_device_eval_batch_size: 128
prediction_loss_only: True
eval_on_start: False
eval_do_concat_batches: True
eval_use_gather_object: False
eval_accumulation_steps: None
include_for_metrics: []
batch_eval_metrics: False
save_only_model: False
save_on_each_node: False
enable_jit_checkpoint: False
push_to_hub: False
hub_private_repo: None
hub_model_id: None
hub_strategy: every_save
hub_always_push: False
hub_revision: None
load_best_model_at_end: False
ignore_data_skip: False
restore_callback_states_from_checkpoint: False
full_determinism: False
seed: 42
data_seed: None
use_cpu: False
accelerator_config: {'split_batches': False, 'dispatch_batches': None, 'even_batches': True, 'use_seedable_sampler': True, 'non_blocking': False, 'gradient_accumulation_kwargs': None}
parallelism_config: None
dataloader_drop_last: False
dataloader_num_workers: 0
dataloader_pin_memory: True
dataloader_persistent_workers: False
dataloader_prefetch_factor: None
remove_unused_columns: True
label_names: None
train_sampling_strategy: random
length_column_name: length
ddp_find_unused_parameters: None
ddp_bucket_cap_mb: None
ddp_broadcast_buffers: False
ddp_static_graph: None
ddp_backend: None
ddp_timeout: 1800
fsdp: []
fsdp_config: {'min_num_params': 0, 'xla': False, 'xla_fsdp_v2': False, 'xla_fsdp_grad_ckpt': False}
deepspeed: None
debug: []
skip_memory_metrics: True
do_predict: False
resume_from_checkpoint: None
warmup_ratio: None
local_rank: -1
prompts: None
batch_sampler: no_duplicates
multi_dataset_batch_sampler: proportional
router_mapping: {}
learning_rate_mapping: {}

Training Logs

Epoch	Step	Validation Loss	sts-dev_spearman_cosine	sts-test_spearman_cosine
-1	-1	-	0.6380	-
0.1266	10	4.2309	0.7929	-
0.2532	20	2.2722	0.7811	-
0.3797	30	1.7944	0.7871	-
0.5063	40	1.7486	0.7916	-
0.6329	50	1.7606	0.7916	-
0.7595	60	1.7451	0.7910	-
0.8861	70	1.7338	0.7911	-
1.0	79	1.7319	0.7909	-
-1	-1	-	-	0.7187

Training Time

Training: 1.0 minutes
Evaluation: 28.9 seconds
Total: 1.5 minutes

Framework Versions

Python: 3.11.6
Sentence Transformers: 5.5.0.dev0
Transformers: 5.6.2
PyTorch: 2.10.0+cu128
Accelerate: 1.13.0.dev0
Datasets: 4.8.4
Tokenizers: 0.22.2

Citation

BibTeX

Sentence Transformers

bibtex

@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",
}

MultipleNegativesRankingLoss

bibtex

@misc{oord2019representationlearningcontrastivepredictive,
      title={Representation Learning with Contrastive Predictive Coding},
      author={Aaron van den Oord and Yazhe Li and Oriol Vinyals},
      year={2019},
      eprint={1807.03748},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03748},
}