PyLate model based on answerdotai/ModernBERT-base

This is a PyLate model finetuned from answerdotai/ModernBERT-base. It maps sentences & paragraphs to sequences of 128-dimensional dense vectors and can be used for semantic textual similarity using the MaxSim operator.

Model Details

Model Description

  • Model Type: PyLate model
  • Base model: answerdotai/ModernBERT-base
  • Document Length: 180 tokens
  • Query Length: 32 tokens
  • Output Dimensionality: 128 tokens
  • Similarity Function: MaxSim

Model Sources

Full Model Architecture

ColBERT(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 31, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: ModernBertModel 
  (1): Dense({'in_features': 768, 'out_features': 128, 'bias': False, 'activation_function': 'torch.nn.modules.linear.Identity'})
)

Usage

First install the PyLate library:

pip install -U pylate

Retrieval

PyLate provides a streamlined interface to index and retrieve documents using ColBERT models. The index leverages the Voyager HNSW index to efficiently handle document embeddings and enable fast retrieval.

Indexing documents

First, load the ColBERT model and initialize the Voyager index, then encode and index your documents:

from pylate import indexes, models, retrieve

# Step 1: Load the ColBERT model
model = models.ColBERT(
    model_name_or_path=pylate_model_id,
)

# Step 2: Initialize the Voyager index
index = indexes.Voyager(
    index_folder="pylate-index",
    index_name="index",
    override=True,  # This overwrites the existing index if any
)

# Step 3: Encode the documents
documents_ids = ["1", "2", "3"]
documents = ["document 1 text", "document 2 text", "document 3 text"]

documents_embeddings = model.encode(
    documents,
    batch_size=32,
    is_query=False,  # Ensure that it is set to False to indicate that these are documents, not queries
    show_progress_bar=True,
)

# Step 4: Add document embeddings to the index by providing embeddings and corresponding ids
index.add_documents(
    documents_ids=documents_ids,
    documents_embeddings=documents_embeddings,
)

Note that you do not have to recreate the index and encode the documents every time. Once you have created an index and added the documents, you can re-use the index later by loading it:

# To load an index, simply instantiate it with the correct folder/name and without overriding it
index = indexes.Voyager(
    index_folder="pylate-index",
    index_name="index",
)

Retrieving top-k documents for queries

Once the documents are indexed, you can retrieve the top-k most relevant documents for a given set of queries. To do so, initialize the ColBERT retriever with the index you want to search in, encode the queries and then retrieve the top-k documents to get the top matches ids and relevance scores:

# Step 1: Initialize the ColBERT retriever
retriever = retrieve.ColBERT(index=index)

# Step 2: Encode the queries
queries_embeddings = model.encode(
    ["query for document 3", "query for document 1"],
    batch_size=32,
    is_query=True,  #  # Ensure that it is set to False to indicate that these are queries
    show_progress_bar=True,
)

# Step 3: Retrieve top-k documents
scores = retriever.retrieve(
    queries_embeddings=queries_embeddings,
    k=10,  # Retrieve the top 10 matches for each query
)

Reranking

If you only want to use the ColBERT model to perform reranking on top of your first-stage retrieval pipeline without building an index, you can simply use rank function and pass the queries and documents to rerank:

from pylate import rank, models

queries = [
    "query A",
    "query B",
]

documents = [
    ["document A", "document B"],
    ["document 1", "document C", "document B"],
]

documents_ids = [
    [1, 2],
    [1, 3, 2],
]

model = models.ColBERT(
    model_name_or_path=pylate_model_id,
)

queries_embeddings = model.encode(
    queries,
    is_query=True,
)

documents_embeddings = model.encode(
    documents,
    is_query=False,
)

reranked_documents = rank.rerank(
    documents_ids=documents_ids,
    queries_embeddings=queries_embeddings,
    documents_embeddings=documents_embeddings,
)

Evaluation

Metrics

Col BERTTriplet

  • Evaluated with pylate.evaluation.colbert_triplet.ColBERTTripletEvaluator
Metric Value
accuracy 0.4484

Training Details

Training Dataset

Unnamed Dataset

  • Size: 1,893,947 training samples
  • Columns: question, answer, and negative
  • Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples:
    question answer negative
    type string string string
    details
    • min: 9 tokens
    • mean: 12.99 tokens
    • max: 23 tokens
    • min: 16 tokens
    • mean: 31.7 tokens
    • max: 32 tokens
    • min: 18 tokens
    • mean: 31.66 tokens
    • max: 32 tokens
  • Samples:
    question answer negative
    can you get a kidney infection from drinking too much? Alcohol and kidney disease Excessive drinking is considered to be more than four drinks per day. This doubles your risk of developing chronic kidney disease or long-term kidney damage. The risk increases if you're a smoker. The main difference in a bladder and kidney infection is the location where bacteria has built up and infected the urinary tract system. Although most kidney infections are the result of untreated bladder infections that migrate to the kidneys, a kidney infection can occur in other ways as well.
    is raw better for dogs? Dog owners who support a raw diet claim that it promotes shinier coats and healthier skin, improved energy levels and fewer digestive problems. Oranges, tangerines, and clementines are not toxic to dogs. However, they are high in sugars and can potentially cause GI upset if your pet eats too many of them. The citric acid in these fruits is not a concern to dogs. It can be a problem in some cats.
    is bano masculine or feminine? baño = bath masculine noun 2 ENTRIES FOUND: baño (Spanish masculine noun) A noun is either masculine or feminine. As you might have guessed, the word for 'woman,' femme, is feminine. To say 'a woman' we say une femme. And yes, the word for 'man,' homme, is masculine.
  • Loss: pylate.losses.contrastive.Contrastive

Evaluation Dataset

Unnamed Dataset

  • Size: 5,000 evaluation samples
  • Columns: question, answer, and negative_1
  • Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples:
    question answer negative_1
    type string string string
    details
    • min: 9 tokens
    • mean: 12.97 tokens
    • max: 21 tokens
    • min: 17 tokens
    • mean: 31.71 tokens
    • max: 32 tokens
    • min: 14 tokens
    • mean: 31.44 tokens
    • max: 32 tokens
  • Samples:
    question answer negative_1
    who is tom holland dating? Tom Holland seems to have confirmed his new romance with girlfriend Nadia Parkes by taking their relationship Instagram official. The Spider-Man star, 24, is said to have been dating Nadia, also 24, for the past few months, with the pair isolating together at Tom's home in London during the coronavirus pandemic. Patrick Holland is Tom Holland's younger brother. He is the youngest in the family.
    what is iops in azure? IOPS is the number of requests that your application is sending to the storage disks in one second. ... On an azure vm you get two paths to the disks a cached and uncached path, a DS14_v2 can get a max of 512 MB/sec cached (the disks are attached using read only or write caching) and 768 MB/sec uncached. What is an Azure resource? In Azure, the term resource refers to an entity managed by Azure. For example, virtual machines, virtual networks, and storage accounts are all referred to as Azure resources.
    how do i convert excel to csv file? ['In your Excel spreadsheet, click File.', 'Click Save As.', 'Click Browse to choose where you want to save your file.', 'Select "CSV" from the "Save as type" drop-down menu.', 'Click Save.'] ['Upload CSV-file. Click "Choose File" button to select a csv file on your computer. CSV file size can be up to 50 Mb.', 'Convert CSV to TXT. Click "Convert" button to start conversion.', 'Download your TXT. When the conversion process is complete, you can download the TXT file.']
  • Loss: pylate.losses.contrastive.Contrastive

Training Hyperparameters

Non-Default Hyperparameters

  • eval_strategy: steps
  • per_device_train_batch_size: 128
  • per_device_eval_batch_size: 128
  • learning_rate: 3e-06
  • num_train_epochs: 1
  • warmup_ratio: 0.1
  • seed: 12
  • bf16: True
  • dataloader_num_workers: 12
  • load_best_model_at_end: 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: 128
  • per_device_eval_batch_size: 128
  • 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: 3e-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: linear
  • lr_scheduler_kwargs: {}
  • warmup_ratio: 0.1
  • 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: 12
  • 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: 12
  • dataloader_prefetch_factor: None
  • past_index: -1
  • disable_tqdm: False
  • remove_unused_columns: True
  • label_names: None
  • load_best_model_at_end: True
  • 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}
  • 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 accuracy
0 0 - 0.4484
0.0001 1 21.3973 -
0.0135 200 15.2155 -
0.0270 400 6.7412 -
0.0405 600 4.5786 -
0.0541 800 2.0501 -
0.0676 1000 1.2267 -
0.0811 1200 0.9833 -
0.0946 1400 0.8401 -
0.1081 1600 0.7528 -
0.1216 1800 0.6987 -
0.1352 2000 0.6581 -
0.1487 2200 0.6151 -
0.1622 2400 0.5728 -
0.1757 2600 0.553 -
0.1892 2800 0.5239 -
0.2027 3000 0.5197 -
0.2163 3200 0.4953 -
0.2298 3400 0.4798 -
0.2433 3600 0.4668 -
0.2568 3800 0.4491 -
0.2703 4000 0.4574 -
0.2838 4200 0.4403 -
0.2974 4400 0.4219 -
0.3109 4600 0.4192 -
0.3244 4800 0.4082 -
0.3379 5000 0.4084 -
0.3514 5200 0.4073 -
0.3649 5400 0.3949 -
0.3785 5600 0.3844 -
0.3920 5800 0.3852 -
0.4055 6000 0.3645 -
0.4190 6200 0.3757 -
0.4325 6400 0.3635 -
0.4460 6600 0.3646 -
0.4596 6800 0.3606 -
0.4731 7000 0.3527 -
0.4866 7200 0.3448 -
0.5001 7400 0.3405 -
0.5136 7600 0.3386 -
0.5271 7800 0.3331 -
0.5407 8000 0.3356 -
0.5542 8200 0.3341 -
0.5677 8400 0.3317 -
0.5812 8600 0.3256 -
0.5947 8800 0.3202 -
0.6082 9000 0.3231 -
0.6217 9200 0.3217 -
0.6353 9400 0.3286 -
0.6488 9600 0.3126 -
0.6623 9800 0.3169 -
0.6758 10000 0.3165 -
0.6893 10200 0.3045 -
0.7028 10400 0.3047 -
0.7164 10600 0.3059 -
0.7299 10800 0.3055 -
0.7434 11000 0.3021 -
0.7569 11200 0.3023 -
0.7704 11400 0.3016 -
0.7839 11600 0.2959 -
0.7975 11800 0.3044 -
0.8110 12000 0.3014 -
0.8245 12200 0.2936 -
0.8380 12400 0.3006 -
0.8515 12600 0.2868 -
0.8650 12800 0.289 -
0.8786 13000 0.2898 -
0.8921 13200 0.2959 -
0.9056 13400 0.2853 -
0.9191 13600 0.2941 -
0.9326 13800 0.3021 -
0.9461 14000 0.2841 -
0.9597 14200 0.2855 -
0.9732 14400 0.288 -
0.9867 14600 0.2892 -

Framework Versions

  • Python: 3.11.0
  • Sentence Transformers: 4.0.1
  • PyLate: 1.1.7
  • Transformers: 4.48.2
  • PyTorch: 2.6.0+cu124
  • Accelerate: 1.6.0
  • Datasets: 3.5.0
  • Tokenizers: 0.21.1

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"
}

PyLate

@misc{PyLate,
title={PyLate: Flexible Training and Retrieval for Late Interaction Models},
author={Chaffin, Antoine and Sourty, Raphaël},
url={https://github.com/lightonai/pylate},
year={2024}
}
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