SentenceTransformer based on BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5

This is a sentence-transformers model finetuned from BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5. It maps inputs to a 384-dimensional dense vector space and can be used for semantic textual similarity, semantic search, paraphrase mining, classification, clustering, and more.

Model Details

Model Description

Model Type: Sentence Transformer
Base model: BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
Maximum Sequence Length: 512 tokens
Output Dimensionality: 384 dimensions
Similarity Function: Cosine Similarity
Supported Modality: Text

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': 'BertModel'})
  (1): Pooling({'embedding_dimension': 384, 'pooling_mode': 'cls', 'include_prompt': True})
  (2): Normalize({'module_input_name': 'sentence_embedding', 'module_output_name': 'sentence_embedding'})
)

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.

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SentenceTransformer("sentence_transformers_model_id")
# Run inference
sentences = [
    'What is a database transaction?',
    'Explain a group of database operations treated as one logical unit.',
    'What strategies help pack lightly for work-related travel?',
]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings.shape)
# [3, 384]

# Get the similarity scores for the embeddings
similarities = model.similarity(embeddings, embeddings)
print(similarities)
# tensor([[1.0000, 0.6330, 0.3489],
#         [0.6330, 1.0000, 0.3141],
#         [0.3489, 0.3141, 1.0000]])

Training Details

Training Dataset

Unnamed Dataset

Size: 210 training samples
Columns: anchor and positive
Approximate statistics based on the first 100 samples:
anchor positive
type string string

modality text text
details
min: 6 tokens
mean: 10.07 tokens
max: 16 tokens

min: 10 tokens
mean: 13.77 tokens
max: 20 tokens

	anchor	positive
type	string	string
modality	text	text
details	min: 6 tokens mean: 10.07 tokens max: 16 tokens	min: 10 tokens mean: 13.77 tokens max: 20 tokens

Samples:

anchor	positive
`How can I reset my password?`	`What should I do to change or recover my account password?`
`I forgot the password for my account.`	`I can't remember my account password and need to regain access.`
`How do I update my email address?`	`Where can I change the email linked to my account?`

Loss: MultipleNegativesRankingLoss with these parameters:

{
    "scale": 20.0,
    "similarity_fct": "cos_sim",
    "gather_across_devices": false,
    "directions": [
        "query_to_doc"
    ],
    "partition_mode": "joint",
    "hardness_mode": null,
    "hardness_strength": 0.0
}

Evaluation Dataset

Unnamed Dataset

Size: 61 evaluation samples
Columns: anchor and positive
Approximate statistics based on the first 61 samples:
anchor positive
type string string

modality text text
details
min: 6 tokens
mean: 11.9 tokens
max: 20 tokens

min: 12 tokens
mean: 16.13 tokens
max: 21 tokens

	anchor	positive
type	string	string
modality	text	text
details	min: 6 tokens mean: 11.9 tokens max: 20 tokens	min: 12 tokens mean: 16.13 tokens max: 21 tokens

Samples:

anchor	positive
`How do I recover a deleted file from my computer?`	`What steps can restore a file that was accidentally removed from a PC?`
`Why is my website returning a 404 error?`	`What does it mean when a webpage cannot be found at the requested address?`
`How can I prevent SQL injection attacks?`	`Which techniques protect a database-backed application from malicious SQL input?`

Loss: MultipleNegativesRankingLoss with these parameters:

{
    "scale": 20.0,
    "similarity_fct": "cos_sim",
    "gather_across_devices": false,
    "directions": [
        "query_to_doc"
    ],
    "partition_mode": "joint",
    "hardness_mode": null,
    "hardness_strength": 0.0
}

Training Hyperparameters

Non-Default Hyperparameters

num_train_epochs: 1
learning_rate: 2e-05
warmup_steps: 0.1

All Hyperparameters

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per_device_train_batch_size: 8
num_train_epochs: 1
max_steps: -1
learning_rate: 2e-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: False
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: 8
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
dataloader_multiprocessing_context: None
dataloader_in_order: True
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: None
fsdp_config: None
deepspeed: None
debug: []
skip_memory_metrics: True
do_predict: False
resume_from_checkpoint: None
local_rank: -1
prompts: None
batch_sampler: batch_sampler
multi_dataset_batch_sampler: proportional
router_mapping: {}
learning_rate_mapping: {}
warmup_ratio: None

Training Logs

Epoch	Step	Training Loss
0.3704	10	0.0510
0.7407	20	0.0625

Training Time

Training: 35.8 seconds

Framework Versions

Python: 3.13.16
Sentence Transformers: 6.1.0
Transformers: 5.18.0
PyTorch: 2.11.0+cpu
Accelerate: 1.15.0
Datasets: 5.1.0
Tokenizers: 0.23.2

Additional Resources

Training and Finetuning Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers: the end-to-end guide for training or finetuning Sentence Transformer models.
Introduction to Matryoshka Embedding Models: variable-size embeddings that can be truncated with minimal quality loss.
Binary and Scalar Embedding Quantization for Significantly Faster & Cheaper Retrieval: post-training compression of embedding vectors.
Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers: use text, image, audio, and video models through the same API.
Training and Finetuning Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers: train multimodal embedding models, with a Visual Document Retrieval walkthrough.

Citation

BibTeX

Sentence Transformers

@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

@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},
}