⬆️(deps)(deps): Update sentence-transformers requirement from >=2.5.1 to >=2.7.0

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Updates the requirements on sentence-transformers to permit the latest version.

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v2.7.0 - CachedGISTEmbedLoss, easy Matryoshka inference & evaluation, CrossEncoder, Intel Gaudi2

This release introduces a new promising loss function, easier inference for Matryoshka models, new functionality for CrossEncoders and Inference on Intel Gaudi2, along much more.

Install this version with

pip install sentence-transformers==2.7.0

New loss function: CachedGISTEmbedLoss (#2592)

For a number of years, MultipleNegativesRankingLoss (also known as SimCSE, InfoNCE, in-batch negatives loss) has been the state of the art in embedding model training. Notably, this loss function performs better with a larger batch size.

Recently, various improvements have been introduced:

1. CachedMultipleNegativesRankingLoss was introduced, which allows you to pick much higher batch sizes (e.g. 65536) with constant memory.
2. GISTEmbedLoss takes a guide model to guide the in-batch negative sample selection. This prevents false negatives, resulting in a stronger training signal.

Now, @​JacksonCakes has combined these two approaches to produce the best of both worlds: CachedGISTEmbedLoss. This loss function allows for high batch sizes with constant memory usage, while also using a guide model to assist with the in-batch negative sample selection.

As can be seen in our Loss Overview, this model should be used with (anchor, positive) pairs or (anchor, positive, negative) triplets, much like MultipleNegativesRankingLoss, CachedMultipleNegativesRankingLoss, and GISTEmbedLoss. In short, any example using those loss functions can be updated to use CachedGISTEmbedLoss! Feel free to experiment, e.g. with this training script.

Automatic Matryoshka model truncation (#2573)

Sentence Transformers v2.4.0 introduced Matryoshka models: models whose embeddings are still useful after truncation. Since then, many useful Matryoshka models have been trained.

As of this release, the truncation for these Matryoshka embedding models can be done automatically via a new truncate_dim constructor argument:

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
from sentence_transformers.util import cos_sim
matryoshka_dim = 64
model = SentenceTransformer("nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5", trust_remote_code=True, truncate_dim=matryoshka_dim)
embeddings = model.encode(
[
"search_query: What is TSNE?",
"search_document: t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) is a statistical method for visualizing high-dimensional data by giving each datapoint a location in a two or three-dimensional map.",
"search_document: Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and writer.",
]
)
print(embeddings.shape)
=> [3, 64]
similarities = cos_sim(embeddings[0], embeddings[1:])
=> tensor([[0.7839, 0.4933]])

Extra information:

• Matryoshka Embeddings Documentation
• Matryoshka Embeddings Blogpost

Model truncation in all evaluators (#2582)

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Commits

• f558eae Release v2.7.0
• 43f4a22 Update CLIP tokenizer (#2599)
• d50a04a Fix search bar on sbert.net (#2597)
• 38ab549 Add CachedGISTEmbedLoss (#2592)
• efa3ed1 feat: add trust remote code to cross encoders (#2595)
• 57ea98c Update transformers requirement in setup.py to match requirements.txt (#2589)
• f60a45b corrected comment from kmeans to agglomerative (#2590)
• d3d767c [fix] Matryoshka training always patch original forward, and check matryosh...
• d105ec8 Add ST annotation to evaluators (#2586)
• 99674c7 Add truncation support in evaluators (#2582)
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