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๐Ÿฆโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ I've just published Sentence Transformers v5.2.0! It introduces multi-processing for CrossEncoder (rerankers), multilingual NanoBEIR evaluators, similarity score outputs in mine_hard_negatives, Transformers v5 support and more. Details:

- CrossEncoder multi-processing: Similar to SentenceTransformer and SparseEncoder, you can now use multi-processing with CrossEncoder rerankers. Useful for multi-GPU and CPU settings, and simple to configure: just device=["cuda:0", "cuda:1"] or device=["cpu"]*4 on the model.predict or model.rank calls.

- Multilingual NanoBEIR Support: You can now use community translations of the tiny NanoBEIR retrieval benchmark instead of only the English one, by passing dataset_id, e.g. dataset_id="lightonai/NanoBEIR-de" for the German benchmark.

- Similarity scores in Hard Negatives Mining: When mining for hard negatives to create a strong training dataset, you can now pass output_scores=True to get similarity scores returned. This can be useful for some distillation losses!

- Transformers v5: This release works with both Transformers v4 and the upcoming v5. In the future, Sentence Transformers will only work with Transformers v5, but not yet!

- Python 3.9 deprecation: Now that Python 3.9 has lost security support, Sentence Transformers no longer supports it.

Check out the full changelog for more details: https://github.com/huggingface/sentence-transformers/releases/tag/v5.2.0

I'm quite excited about what's coming. There's a huge draft PR with a notable refactor in the works that should bring some exciting support. Specifically, better multimodality, rerankers, and perhaps some late interaction in the future!
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After training ๐’๐ฆ๐จ๐ฅ๐‹๐Œ๐Ÿ‘ on ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ’ ๐‡๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ฌ for nearly a month, I've come to realize something most people overlook: ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž-๐จ๐ซ-๐›๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ค ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐‹๐‹๐Œ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ . ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Everyone talks about model architecture and data quality. And yes, those matter immensely. But here's what nobody tells you: when your training run fails at 2 AM because of mysterious ๐๐‚๐‚๐‹ ๐ž๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ, or when your expensive GPU cluster is running at ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŽ% ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ฒ, the problem isn't your model. It's most probably a ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž. ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ

Questions that seemed simple but had no clear answers: Why is ๐Œ๐จ๐„ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ? Which ๐๐‚๐‚๐‹ ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐š๐ ๐ฌ should we actually set? How often should we checkpoint without killing throughput?

That's why we built ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ฆ๐จ๐ฅ ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐›๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐Ÿ“–: a complete guide covering everything from model architecture and data curation to the SmolLM3 training marathon, post-training techniques, and crucially, the ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ that most teams get wrong.

We validated real vs theoretical bandwidth across the entire stack: ๐‡๐๐Œ๐Ÿ‘ ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ‘ ๐“๐/๐ฌ, ๐๐•๐‹๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐Ÿ’.๐ŸŽ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ” ๐†๐/๐ฌ, ๐๐‚๐ˆ๐ž ๐†๐ž๐ง๐Ÿ’ ๐š๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’.๐Ÿ ๐†๐/๐ฌ. Then we ran collective operations across ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ– ๐†๐๐”๐ฌ (16 nodes, 8xH100s each) and measured how performance degrades at scale: all-reduce drops from ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ–๐ŸŽ ๐†๐/๐ฌ on a single node to ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ-๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ ๐†๐/๐ฌ across 16 nodes.

If you've ever wondered why your training runs are slower than they should be, or you're planning to scale up and want to avoid expensive mistakes, this guide might save you weeks of debugging.

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ฆ๐จ๐ฅ ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐›๐จ๐จ๐ค: https://lnkd.in/e5MKXUHS

Shared with โค๏ธ by the HuggingFace team
tomaarsenย 
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๐Ÿค— Sentence Transformers is joining Hugging Face! ๐Ÿค— This formalizes the existing maintenance structure, as I've personally led the project for the past two years on behalf of Hugging Face! Details:

Today, the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab is transferring the project to Hugging Face. Sentence Transformers will remain a community-driven, open-source project, with the same open-source license (Apache 2.0) as before. Contributions from researchers, developers, and enthusiasts are welcome and encouraged. The project will continue to prioritize transparency, collaboration, and broad accessibility.

Read our full announcement for more details and quotes from UKP and Hugging Face leadership: https://huggingface.co/blog/sentence-transformers-joins-hf

We see an increasing wish from companies to move from large LLM APIs to local models for better control and privacy, reflected in the library's growth: in just the last 30 days, Sentence Transformer models have been downloaded >270 million times, second only to transformers.

I would like to thank the UKP Lab, and especially Nils Reimers and Iryna Gurevych, both for their dedication to the project and for their trust in myself, both now and two years ago. Back then, neither of you knew me well, yet you trusted me to take the project to new heights. That choice ended up being very valuable for the embedding & Information Retrieval community, and I think this choice of granting Hugging Face stewardship will be similarly successful.

I'm very excited about the future of the project, and for the world of embeddings and retrieval at large!
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