sentence-transformers/examples/sparse_encoder/training/README.md

Training

This folder contains various examples to fine-tune SparseEncoder models for specific tasks.

For the beginning, I can recommend to have a look at the MS MARCO examples.

For the documentation how to train your own models, see Training Overview.

Training Examples

• distillation - Examples to make models smaller, faster and lighter.
• ms_marco - Example training scripts for training on the MS MARCO information retrieval dataset.
• nli - Natural Language Inference (NLI) data can be quite helpful to pre-train and fine-tune models to create meaningful sparse embeddings.
• quora_duplicate_questions - Quora Duplicate Questions is large set corpus with duplicate questions from the Quora community. The folder contains examples how to train models for duplicate questions mining and for semantic search.
• retrievers - Example training scripts for training on generic information retrieval datasets.
• sts - The most basic method to train models is using Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) data. Here, we have a sentence pair and a score indicating the semantic similarity.