Added doc for importing private model.

[saskiabosma]

Follow up to the discussion on issue-2336: adding details on how to import a local private model following HuggingFace base models/architecture but not hosted remotely on HuggingFace.

[saskiabosma]

@tomaarsen here's the PR !

[tomaarsen]

Hello!

I did some more digging around this PR & #2336, and I think the documentation should mention the (recommended) code-only procedure for converting a non-Sentence Transformer CLIP model to Sentence Transformers. Like always in Sentence Transformers, the model name can also just be a path to a local model. I've implemented this in #2369. I think this is more intuitive & useful for users than this PR. What do you think?

• Tom Aarsen

[saskiabosma]

Hi ! I think your version is cleaner but I'd replace from the Hugging Face Hub by from the Hugging Face Hub or a local path to make clear the fact that the model doesn't need to be hosted remotely on HuggingFace (in case of private fine tuned models for example) and just needs to follow the HuggingFace structure.

[tomaarsen]

@saskiabosma That's a great idea! I've added it in my PR here & mentioned you as a co-author of the commit.
I'll close this one, and merge that one! Thanks for all the help.