woodx/distilbert-base-uncased-sts

SentenceTransformer based on distilbert/distilbert-base-uncased

This is a sentence-transformers model finetuned from distilbert/distilbert-base-uncased on the stsb 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/distilbert-base-uncased
• Maximum Sequence Length: 512 tokens
• Output Dimensionality: 768 dimensions
• Similarity Function: Cosine Similarity
• Supported Modality: Text
• Training Dataset:
  • stsb
• Language: en

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': 'DistilBertModel'})
  (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.

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SentenceTransformer("woodx/distilbert-base-uncased-sts")
# Run inference
sentences = [
    'While Queen may refer to both Queen regent (sovereign) or Queen consort, the King has always been the sovereign.',
    'There is a very good reason not to refer to the Queen\'s spouse as "King" - because they aren\'t the King.',
    'A man sitting on the floor in a room is strumming a guitar.',
]
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, 0.4762, 0.0924],
#         [0.4762, 1.0000, 0.0974],
#         [0.0924, 0.0974, 1.0000]])

Evaluation

Metrics

Semantic Similarity

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

Metric	sts-dev	sts-test
pearson_cosine	0.8712	0.8353
spearman_cosine	0.8702	0.8358

Training Details

Training Dataset

stsb

• Dataset: stsb at ab7a5ac
• Size: 5,749 training samples
• Columns: sentence1, sentence2, and score
• Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples:

  	sentence1	sentence2	score
  type	string	string	float
  details	min: 6 tokens mean: 10.0 tokens max: 28 tokens	min: 5 tokens mean: 9.95 tokens max: 25 tokens	min: 0.0 mean: 0.45 max: 1.0

• Samples:

  sentence1	sentence2	score
  A plane is taking off.	An air plane is taking off.	1.0
  A man is playing a large flute.	A man is playing a flute.	0.76
  A man is spreading shreded cheese on a pizza.	A man is spreading shredded cheese on an uncooked pizza.	0.76

• Loss: CosineSimilarityLoss with these parameters:

  {
      "loss_fct": "torch.nn.modules.loss.MSELoss",
      "cos_score_transformation": "torch.nn.modules.linear.Identity"
  }
  

Evaluation Dataset

stsb

• Dataset: stsb at ab7a5ac
• Size: 1,500 evaluation samples
• Columns: sentence1, sentence2, and score
• Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples:

  	sentence1	sentence2	score
  type	string	string	float
  details	min: 5 tokens mean: 15.1 tokens max: 45 tokens	min: 6 tokens mean: 15.11 tokens max: 53 tokens	min: 0.0 mean: 0.42 max: 1.0

• Samples:

  sentence1	sentence2	score
  A man with a hard hat is dancing.	A man wearing a hard hat is dancing.	1.0
  A young child is riding a horse.	A child is riding a horse.	0.95
  A man is feeding a mouse to a snake.	The man is feeding a mouse to the snake.	1.0

• Loss: CosineSimilarityLoss with these parameters:

  {
      "loss_fct": "torch.nn.modules.loss.MSELoss",
      "cos_score_transformation": "torch.nn.modules.linear.Identity"
  }
  

Training Hyperparameters

Non-Default Hyperparameters

• per_device_train_batch_size: 16
• num_train_epochs: 4
• warmup_steps: 0.1
• fp16: True
• per_device_eval_batch_size: 16

All Hyperparameters

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• per_device_train_batch_size: 16
• num_train_epochs: 4
• 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: False
• fp16: True
• 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: trackio
• per_device_eval_batch_size: 16
• 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_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: batch_sampler
• multi_dataset_batch_sampler: proportional
• router_mapping: {}
• learning_rate_mapping: {}

Training Logs

Epoch	Step	Training Loss	Validation Loss	sts-dev_spearman_cosine	sts-test_spearman_cosine
0.2778	100	0.0832	0.0400	0.8054	-
0.5556	200	0.0327	0.0287	0.8463	-
0.8333	300	0.0280	0.0256	0.8570	-
1.1111	400	0.0203	0.0276	0.8587	-
1.3889	500	0.0121	0.0270	0.8638	-
1.6667	600	0.0128	0.0274	0.8630	-
1.9444	700	0.0129	0.0267	0.8630	-
2.2222	800	0.0074	0.0253	0.8664	-
2.5	900	0.0059	0.0264	0.8665	-
2.7778	1000	0.0057	0.0264	0.8680	-
3.0556	1100	0.0055	0.0253	0.8703	-
3.3333	1200	0.0038	0.0252	0.8700	-
3.6111	1300	0.0038	0.0252	0.8697	-
3.8889	1400	0.0037	0.0251	0.8703	-
4.0	1440	-	0.0251	0.8702	-
-1	-1	-	-	-	0.8358

Training Time

• Training: 1.5 minutes
• Evaluation: 39.7 seconds
• Total: 2.1 minutes

Framework Versions

• Python: 3.11.15
• Sentence Transformers: 5.4.1
• Transformers: 5.5.4
• PyTorch: 2.11.0+cu130
• Accelerate: 1.13.0
• Datasets: 4.8.4
• Tokenizers: 0.22.2

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",
}