This is a Sparse Encoder model trained on the natural-questions dataset using the sentence-transformers library. It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 50368-dimensional sparse vector space and can be used for semantic search and sparse retrieval.

Model Details

Model Description

Model Type: Sparse Encoder

Maximum Sequence Length: 8192 tokens
Training Dataset:
- natural-questions
Language: en

Model Sources

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

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 SparseEncoder

# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SparseEncoder("tomaarsen/splade-ModernBERT-nq-fresh")
# Run inference
sentences = [
    'is send in the clowns from a musical',
    'Send In the Clowns "Send In the Clowns" is a song written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman\'s film Smiles of a Summer Night. It is a ballad from Act Two, in which the character Desirée reflects on the ironies and disappointments of her life. Among other things, she looks back on an affair years earlier with the lawyer Fredrik, who was deeply in love with her but whose marriage proposals she had rejected. Meeting him after so long, she realizes she is in love with him and finally ready to marry him, but now it is he who rejects her: he is in an unconsummated marriage with a much younger woman. Desirée proposes marriage to rescue him from this situation, but he declines, citing his dedication to his bride. Reacting to his rejection, Desirée sings this song. The song is later reprised as a coda after Fredrik\'s young wife runs away with his son, and Fredrik is finally free to accept Desirée\'s offer.[1]',
    'The Suite Life on Deck The Suite Life on Deck is an American sitcom that aired on Disney Channel from September 26, 2008 to May 6, 2011. It is a sequel/spin-off of the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. The series follows twin brothers Zack and Cody Martin and hotel heiress London Tipton in a new setting, the SS Tipton, where they attend classes at "Seven Seas High School" and meet Bailey Pickett while Mr. Moseby manages the ship. The ship travels around the world to nations such as Italy, France, Greece, India, Sweden and the United Kingdom where the characters experience different cultures, adventures, and situations.[1]',
]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings.shape)
# (3, 50368)

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

Evaluation

Metrics

Sparse Information Retrieval

Datasets: NanoMSMARCO, NanoNFCorpus and NanoNQ
Evaluated with SparseInformationRetrievalEvaluator

Metric	NanoMSMARCO	NanoNFCorpus	NanoNQ
dot_accuracy@1	0.06	0.04	0.06
dot_accuracy@3	0.08	0.14	0.16
dot_accuracy@5	0.1	0.22	0.18
dot_accuracy@10	0.22	0.28	0.3
dot_precision@1	0.06	0.04	0.06
dot_precision@3	0.0267	0.0533	0.0533
dot_precision@5	0.02	0.056	0.036
dot_precision@10	0.022	0.04	0.03
dot_recall@1	0.06	0.0007	0.06
dot_recall@3	0.08	0.0035	0.16
dot_recall@5	0.1	0.0151	0.18
dot_recall@10	0.22	0.0259	0.28
dot_ndcg@10	0.1196	0.0462	0.1595
dot_mrr@10	0.0899	0.1025	0.1233
dot_map@100	0.1084	0.0136	0.141

Sparse Nano BEIR

Dataset: NanoBEIR_mean
Evaluated with SparseNanoBEIREvaluator with these parameters:
json
1{ 2 "dataset_names": [ 3 "msmarco", 4 "nfcorpus", 5 "nq" 6 ] 7}

Metric	Value
dot_accuracy@1	0.0533
dot_accuracy@3	0.1267
dot_accuracy@5	0.1667
dot_accuracy@10	0.2667
dot_precision@1	0.0533
dot_precision@3	0.0444
dot_precision@5	0.0373
dot_precision@10	0.0307
dot_recall@1	0.0402
dot_recall@3	0.0812
dot_recall@5	0.0984
dot_recall@10	0.1753
dot_ndcg@10	0.1084
dot_mrr@10	0.1052
dot_map@100	0.0876

Training Details

Training Dataset

natural-questions

Dataset: natural-questions at f9e894e
Size: 99,000 training samples
Columns: query and answer
Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples:
query answer
type string string
details
min: 29 characters
mean: 46.96 characters
max: 93 characters
min: 10 characters
mean: 582.13 characters
max: 2141 characters

Samples:

query	answer
`who played the father in papa don't preach`	`Alex McArthur Alex McArthur (born March 6, 1957) is an American actor.`
`where was the location of the battle of hastings`	`Battle of Hastings The Battle of Hastings[a] was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England. It took place approximately 7 miles (11 kilometres) northwest of Hastings, close to the present-day town of Battle, East Sussex, and was a decisive Norman victory.`
`how many puppies can a dog give birth to`	`Canine reproduction The largest litter size to date was set by a Neapolitan Mastiff in Manea, Cambridgeshire, UK on November 29, 2004; the litter was 24 puppies.[22]`

Loss: SpladeLoss with these parameters:
json
1{'lamda_corpus': 0.08, 'lamda_query': 0.1, 'main_loss': SparseMultipleNegativesRankingLoss( 2 (model): SparseEncoder( 3 (0): MLMTransformer({'max_seq_length': 8192, 'do_lower_case': False}) with MLMTransformer model: ModernBertForMaskedLM 4 (1): SpladePooling({'pooling_strategy': 'max', 'word_embedding_dimension': None}) 5 ) 6 (cross_entropy_loss): CrossEntropyLoss() 7)}

Evaluation Dataset

natural-questions

Dataset: natural-questions at f9e894e
Size: 1,000 evaluation samples
Columns: query and answer
Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples:
query answer
type string string
details
min: 30 characters
mean: 47.2 characters
max: 96 characters
min: 58 characters
mean: 598.96 characters
max: 2480 characters

Samples:

query	answer
`where is the tiber river located in italy`	Tiber The Tiber (/ˈtaɪbər/, Latin: Tiberis,[1] Italian: Tevere [ˈteːvere])[2] is the third-longest river in Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing 406 kilometres (252 mi) through Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio, where it is joined by the river Aniene, to the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Ostia and Fiumicino.[3] It drains a basin estimated at 17,375 square kilometres (6,709 sq mi). The river has achieved lasting fame as the main watercourse of the city of Rome, founded on its eastern banks.
`what kind of car does jay gatsby drive`	`Jay Gatsby At the Buchanan home, Jordan Baker, Nick, Jay, and the Buchanans decide to visit New York City. Tom borrows Gatsby's yellow Rolls Royce to drive up to the city. On the way to New York City, Tom makes a detour at a gas station in "the Valley of Ashes", a run-down part of Long Island. The owner, George Wilson, shares his concern that his wife, Myrtle, may be having an affair. This unnerves Tom, who has been having an affair with Myrtle, and he leaves in a hurry.`
`who sings if i can dream about you`	`I Can Dream About You "I Can Dream About You" is a song performed by American singer Dan Hartman on the soundtrack album of the film Streets of Fire. Released in 1984 as a single from the soundtrack, and included on Hartman's album I Can Dream About You, it reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1]`

Loss: SpladeLoss with these parameters:
json
1{'lamda_corpus': 0.08, 'lamda_query': 0.1, 'main_loss': SparseMultipleNegativesRankingLoss( 2 (model): SparseEncoder( 3 (0): MLMTransformer({'max_seq_length': 8192, 'do_lower_case': False}) with MLMTransformer model: ModernBertForMaskedLM 4 (1): SpladePooling({'pooling_strategy': 'max', 'word_embedding_dimension': None}) 5 ) 6 (cross_entropy_loss): CrossEntropyLoss() 7)}

Training Hyperparameters

Non-Default Hyperparameters

eval_strategy: steps
per_device_train_batch_size: 4
learning_rate: 5e-06
num_train_epochs: 1
lr_scheduler_type: cosine
lr_scheduler_kwargs: {'num_cycles': 0.5}
bf16: True

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: 4
per_device_eval_batch_size: 8
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: 5e-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: cosine
lr_scheduler_kwargs: {'num_cycles': 0.5}
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: {'min_num_params': 0, 'xla': False, 'xla_fsdp_v2': False, 'xla_fsdp_grad_ckpt': False}
tp_size: 0
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: 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: batch_sampler
multi_dataset_batch_sampler: proportional

Training Logs

Epoch	Step	Training Loss	Validation Loss	NanoMSMARCO_dot_ndcg@10	NanoNFCorpus_dot_ndcg@10	NanoNQ_dot_ndcg@10	NanoBEIR_mean_dot_ndcg@10
0.5980	14800	0.1534	-	-	-	-	-
0.6141	15200	0.1246	-	-	-	-	-
0.6303	15600	0.1367	-	-	-	-	-
0.6465	16000	0.1492	-	-	-	-	-
0.6626	16400	0.1306	-	-	-	-	-
0.6788	16800	0.1344	-	-	-	-	-
0.6949	17200	0.1317	-	-	-	-	-
0.7111	17600	0.1248	-	-	-	-	-
0.7273	18000	0.1302	-	-	-	-	-
0.7434	18400	0.1172	-	-	-	-	-
0.7596	18800	0.1216	-	-	-	-	-
0.7758	19200	0.1192	0.2194	0.0934	0.0488	0.1486	0.0969
0.7919	19600	0.128	-	-	-	-	-
0.8081	20000	0.1027	-	-	-	-	-
0.8242	20400	0.1036	-	-	-	-	-
0.8404	20800	0.1121	-	-	-	-	-
0.8566	21200	0.1243	-	-	-	-	-
0.8727	21600	0.1185	-	-	-	-	-
0.8889	22000	0.1112	-	-	-	-	-
0.9051	22400	0.1157	-	-	-	-	-
0.9212	22800	0.1054	-	-	-	-	-
0.9374	23200	0.1157	-	-	-	-	-
0.9535	23600	0.1188	-	-	-	-	-
0.9697	24000	0.0996	0.2002	0.1325	0.0471	0.1604	0.1134
0.9859	24400	0.1211	-	-	-	-	-
1	-1	-	-	0.1196	0.0462	0.1595	0.1084

Environmental Impact

Carbon emissions were measured using CodeCarbon.

Energy Consumed: 0.169 kWh
Carbon Emitted: 0.066 kg of CO2
Hours Used: 0.59 hours

Training Hardware

On Cloud: No
GPU Model: 1 x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
CPU Model: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700K
RAM Size: 31.78 GB

Framework Versions

Python: 3.11.6
Sentence Transformers: 4.1.0.dev0
Transformers: 4.50.1
PyTorch: 2.6.0+cu124
Accelerate: 1.5.1
Datasets: 2.21.0
Tokenizers: 0.21.1

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",
}

SpladeLoss

bibtex

@misc{wen2025matryoshkarevisitingsparsecoding,
      title={Beyond Matryoshka: Revisiting Sparse Coding for Adaptive Representation},
      author={Tiansheng Wen and Yifei Wang and Zequn Zeng and Zhong Peng and Yudi Su and Xinyang Liu and Bo Chen and Hongwei Liu and Stefanie Jegelka and Chenyu You},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2503.01776},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01776},
}

	query	answer
type	string	string
details	min: 29 characters mean: 46.96 characters max: 93 characters	min: 10 characters mean: 582.13 characters max: 2141 characters