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  Different versions of `transformers` and `pytorch` could cause negligible but non-zero performance differences.
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  ## Citation
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  If you find our paper or models helpful, please consider cite as follows:
 
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  Different versions of `transformers` and `pytorch` could cause negligible but non-zero performance differences.
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+ **3. Why does the cosine similarity scores distribute around 0.7 to 1.0?**
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+ This is a known and expected behavior as we use a low temperature 0.01 for InfoNCE contrastive loss.
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+ For text embedding tasks like text retrieval or semantic similarity,
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+ what matters is the relative order of the scores instead of the absolute values,
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+ so this should not be an issue.
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  ## Citation
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  If you find our paper or models helpful, please consider cite as follows: