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---
language: zh
pipeline_tag: sentence-similarity
tags:
- sentence-transformers
- feature-extraction
- sentence-similarity
- transformers
license: apache-2.0
widget:
- source_sentence: "那个人很开心"
sentences:
- "那个人非常开心"
- "那只猫很开心"
- "那个人在吃东西"
---
# Chinese Sentence BERT
## Model description
This is the sentence embedding model pre-trained by [UER-py](https://github.com/dbiir/UER-py/), which is introduced in [this paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05658). Besides, the model could also be pre-trained by [TencentPretrain](https://github.com/Tencent/TencentPretrain) introduced in [this paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06385), which inherits UER-py to support models with parameters above one billion, and extends it to a multimodal pre-training framework.
## How to use
You can use this model to extract sentence embeddings for sentence similarity task. We use cosine distance to calculate the embedding similarity here:
```python
>>> from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
>>> model = SentenceTransformer('uer/sbert-base-chinese-nli')
>>> sentences = ['那个人很开心', '那个人非常开心']
>>> sentence_embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
>>> from sklearn.metrics.pairwise import paired_cosine_distances
>>> cosine_score = 1 - paired_cosine_distances([sentence_embeddings[0]],[sentence_embeddings[1]])
```
## Training data
[ChineseTextualInference](https://github.com/liuhuanyong/ChineseTextualInference/) is used as training data.
## Training procedure
The model is fine-tuned by [UER-py](https://github.com/dbiir/UER-py/) on [Tencent Cloud](https://cloud.tencent.com/). We fine-tune five epochs with a sequence length of 128 on the basis of the pre-trained model [chinese_roberta_L-12_H-768](https://huggingface.co/uer/chinese_roberta_L-12_H-768). At the end of each epoch, the model is saved when the best performance on development set is achieved.
```
python3 finetune/run_classifier_siamese.py --pretrained_model_path models/cluecorpussmall_roberta_base_seq512_model.bin-250000 \
--vocab_path models/google_zh_vocab.txt \
--config_path models/sbert/base_config.json \
--train_path datasets/ChineseTextualInference/train.tsv \
--dev_path datasets/ChineseTextualInference/dev.tsv \
--learning_rate 5e-5 --epochs_num 5 --batch_size 64
```
Finally, we convert the pre-trained model into Huggingface's format:
```
python3 scripts/convert_sbert_from_uer_to_huggingface.py --input_model_path models/finetuned_model.bin \
--output_model_path pytorch_model.bin \
--layers_num 12
```
### BibTeX entry and citation info
```
@article{reimers2019sentence,
title={Sentence-bert: Sentence embeddings using siamese bert-networks},
author={Reimers, Nils and Gurevych, Iryna},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.10084},
year={2019}
}
@article{zhao2019uer,
title={UER: An Open-Source Toolkit for Pre-training Models},
author={Zhao, Zhe and Chen, Hui and Zhang, Jinbin and Zhao, Xin and Liu, Tao and Lu, Wei and Chen, Xi and Deng, Haotang and Ju, Qi and Du, Xiaoyong},
journal={EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019},
pages={241},
year={2019}
}
@article{zhao2023tencentpretrain,
title={TencentPretrain: A Scalable and Flexible Toolkit for Pre-training Models of Different Modalities},
author={Zhao, Zhe and Li, Yudong and Hou, Cheng and Zhao, Jing and others},
journal={ACL 2023},
pages={217},
year={2023}
```