msmarco-MiniLM-L12-cos-v5

Maintained By
sentence-transformers

msmarco-MiniLM-L12-cos-v5

PropertyValue
Parameter Count33.4M
Embedding Dimensions768
Framework SupportPyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, ONNX
PaperSentence-BERT Paper

What is msmarco-MiniLM-L12-cos-v5?

msmarco-MiniLM-L12-cos-v5 is a specialized sentence transformer model designed for semantic search applications. Built on the sentence-transformers framework, it maps sentences and paragraphs to 768-dimensional dense vector spaces, trained on 500,000 query-answer pairs from the MS MARCO Passages dataset. This model produces normalized embeddings optimized for cosine similarity comparisons.

Implementation Details

The model implements a mean pooling architecture that processes tokenized input through transformer layers before generating the final embeddings. It supports multiple deep learning frameworks and can be easily integrated using the sentence-transformers library or HuggingFace Transformers.

  • Normalized embeddings with length 1
  • Mean pooling for token aggregation
  • Compatible with dot-product, cosine-similarity, and euclidean distance metrics
  • Supports batched processing for efficient computation

Core Capabilities

  • Semantic search and similarity matching
  • Query-document relevance scoring
  • Text embedding generation
  • Cross-lingual text comparison

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What makes this model unique?

This model's uniqueness lies in its optimization for semantic search tasks, specifically trained on MS MARCO data, making it particularly effective for query-document matching while maintaining a relatively small parameter count of 33.4M.

Q: What are the recommended use cases?

The model excels in information retrieval tasks, document similarity matching, and semantic search applications. It's particularly well-suited for applications requiring efficient comparison of text segments or search query matching.

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