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π What happened in AI in 2025? π
We prepared the 2025 version of the HF AI Timeline Grid, highlighting open vs API-based model releases, and allowing you to browse and filter by access, modality, and release type!
Play with it here:
2025-ai-timeline/2025-ai-timeline
Here's my personal quarterly TL;DR:
1οΈβ£ Q1 β Learning to Reason
Deepseek not only releases a top-notch reasoning model, but shows how to train them and compete with closed frontier models. OpenAI debuts Deep Research.
Significant milestones: DeepSeek R1 & R1-Zero, Qwen 2.5 VL, OpenAI Deep Research, Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental)
2οΈβ£ Q2 β Multimodality and Coding
More LLMs embrace multimodality by default, and there's a surge in coding agents. Strong vision, audio, and generative models emerge.
Significant milestones: Llama 4, Qwen 3, Imagen 4, OpenAI Codex, Google Jules, Claude 4
3οΈβ£ Q3 β "Gold" rush, OpenAI opens up, the community goes bananas
Flagship models get gold in Math olympiads and hard benchmarks. OpenAI releases strong open source models and Google releases the much anticipated nano-banana for image generation and editing. Agentic workflows become commonplace.
Significant milestones: Gemini and OpenAI IMO Gold, gpt-oss, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Grok 4, Claude Sonnet 4.5
4οΈβ£ Q4 β Mistral returns, leaderboard hill-climbing
Mistral is back with updated model families. All labs release impressive models to wrap up the year!
Significant milestones: Claude Opus 4.5, DeepSeek Math V2, FLUX 2, GPT 5.1, Kimi K2 Thinking, Nano Banana Pro, GLM 4.7, Gemini 3, Mistral 3, MiniMax M2.1 π€―
Credits
π NHLOCAL for the source data https://github.com/NHLOCAL/AiTimeline
π«‘ @reach-vb for the original idea, design and recipe
π @ariG23498 and yours truly for compiling and verifying the 2025 edition
π₯³ Here's to 2026, wishing it becomes the best year ever for open releases and on-device-first use-cases! π₯
We prepared the 2025 version of the HF AI Timeline Grid, highlighting open vs API-based model releases, and allowing you to browse and filter by access, modality, and release type!
Play with it here:
2025-ai-timeline/2025-ai-timeline
Here's my personal quarterly TL;DR:
1οΈβ£ Q1 β Learning to Reason
Deepseek not only releases a top-notch reasoning model, but shows how to train them and compete with closed frontier models. OpenAI debuts Deep Research.
Significant milestones: DeepSeek R1 & R1-Zero, Qwen 2.5 VL, OpenAI Deep Research, Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental)
2οΈβ£ Q2 β Multimodality and Coding
More LLMs embrace multimodality by default, and there's a surge in coding agents. Strong vision, audio, and generative models emerge.
Significant milestones: Llama 4, Qwen 3, Imagen 4, OpenAI Codex, Google Jules, Claude 4
3οΈβ£ Q3 β "Gold" rush, OpenAI opens up, the community goes bananas
Flagship models get gold in Math olympiads and hard benchmarks. OpenAI releases strong open source models and Google releases the much anticipated nano-banana for image generation and editing. Agentic workflows become commonplace.
Significant milestones: Gemini and OpenAI IMO Gold, gpt-oss, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Grok 4, Claude Sonnet 4.5
4οΈβ£ Q4 β Mistral returns, leaderboard hill-climbing
Mistral is back with updated model families. All labs release impressive models to wrap up the year!
Significant milestones: Claude Opus 4.5, DeepSeek Math V2, FLUX 2, GPT 5.1, Kimi K2 Thinking, Nano Banana Pro, GLM 4.7, Gemini 3, Mistral 3, MiniMax M2.1 π€―
Credits
π NHLOCAL for the source data https://github.com/NHLOCAL/AiTimeline
π«‘ @reach-vb for the original idea, design and recipe
π @ariG23498 and yours truly for compiling and verifying the 2025 edition
π₯³ Here's to 2026, wishing it becomes the best year ever for open releases and on-device-first use-cases! π₯
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π¦βπ₯ 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
- Multilingual NanoBEIR Support: You can now use community translations of the tiny NanoBEIR retrieval benchmark instead of only the English one, by passing
- Similarity scores in Hard Negatives Mining: When mining for hard negatives to create a strong training dataset, you can now pass
- 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!
- 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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π€ Sentence Transformers is joining Hugging Face! π€ 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!
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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ModernBERT goes MULTILINGUAL! One of the most requested models I've seen, The Johns Hopkins University's CLSP has trained state-of-the-art massively multilingual encoders using the ModernBERT architecture: mmBERT.
Model details:
- 2 model sizes:
- jhu-clsp/mmBERT-small
- jhu-clsp/mmBERT-base
- Uses the ModernBERT architecture, but with the Gemma2 multilingual tokenizer (so: flash attention, alternating global/local attention, unpadding/sequence packing, etc.)
- Maximum sequence length of 8192 tokens, on the high end for encoders
- Trained on 1833 languages using DCLM, FineWeb2, and many more sources
- 3 training phases: 2.3T tokens pretraining on 60 languages, 600B tokens mid-training on 110 languages, and 100B tokens decay training on all 1833 languages.
- Both models are MIT Licensed, and the full datasets and intermediary checkpoints are also publicly released
Evaluation details:
- Very competitive with ModernBERT at equivalent sizes on English (GLUE, MTEB v2 English after finetuning)
- Consistently outperforms equivalently sized models on all Multilingual tasks (XTREME, classification, MTEB v2 Multilingual after finetuning)
- In short: beats commonly used multilingual base models like mDistilBERT, XLM-R (multilingual RoBERTa), multilingual MiniLM, etc.
- Additionally: the ModernBERT-based mmBERT is much faster than the alternatives due to its architectural benefits. Easily up to 2x throughput in common scenarios.
Check out the full blogpost with more details. It's super dense & gets straight to the point: https://huggingface.co/blog/mmbert
Based on these results, mmBERT should be the new go-to multilingual encoder base models at 300M and below. Do note that the mmBERT models are "base" models, i.e. they're currently only trained to perform Mask Filling. They'll need to be finetuned for downstream tasks like semantic search, classification, clustering, etc.
Model details:
- 2 model sizes:
- jhu-clsp/mmBERT-small
- jhu-clsp/mmBERT-base
- Uses the ModernBERT architecture, but with the Gemma2 multilingual tokenizer (so: flash attention, alternating global/local attention, unpadding/sequence packing, etc.)
- Maximum sequence length of 8192 tokens, on the high end for encoders
- Trained on 1833 languages using DCLM, FineWeb2, and many more sources
- 3 training phases: 2.3T tokens pretraining on 60 languages, 600B tokens mid-training on 110 languages, and 100B tokens decay training on all 1833 languages.
- Both models are MIT Licensed, and the full datasets and intermediary checkpoints are also publicly released
Evaluation details:
- Very competitive with ModernBERT at equivalent sizes on English (GLUE, MTEB v2 English after finetuning)
- Consistently outperforms equivalently sized models on all Multilingual tasks (XTREME, classification, MTEB v2 Multilingual after finetuning)
- In short: beats commonly used multilingual base models like mDistilBERT, XLM-R (multilingual RoBERTa), multilingual MiniLM, etc.
- Additionally: the ModernBERT-based mmBERT is much faster than the alternatives due to its architectural benefits. Easily up to 2x throughput in common scenarios.
Check out the full blogpost with more details. It's super dense & gets straight to the point: https://huggingface.co/blog/mmbert
Based on these results, mmBERT should be the new go-to multilingual encoder base models at 300M and below. Do note that the mmBERT models are "base" models, i.e. they're currently only trained to perform Mask Filling. They'll need to be finetuned for downstream tasks like semantic search, classification, clustering, etc.
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π I just published Sentence Transformers v5.1.0, and it's a big one. 2x-3x speedups of SparseEncoder models via ONNX and/or OpenVINO backends, easier distillation data preparation with hard negatives mining, and more:
1οΈβ£ Faster ONNX and OpenVINO backends for SparseEncoder models
Usage is as simple as
2οΈβ£ New
This new output format is immediately compatible with the MarginMSELoss and SparseMarginMSELoss for training SentenceTransformer, CrossEncoder, and SparseEncoder losses.
3οΈβ£ Gathering across devices
When doing multi-GPU training using a loss that has in-batch negatives (e.g. MultipleNegativesRankingLoss), you can now use
4οΈβ£ Trackio support
If you also upgrade
5οΈβ£ MTEB Documentation
We've added some documentation on evaluating SentenceTransformer models properly with MTEB. It's rudimentary as the documentation on the MTEB side is already great, but it should get you started.
Plus many more smaller features & fixes (crash fixes, compatibility with datasets v4, FIPS compatibility, etc.).
See the full release notes here: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/tag/v5.1.0
Big thanks to all of the contributors for helping with the release, many of the features from this release were proposed by others. I have a big list of future potential features that I'd love to add, but I'm
1οΈβ£ Faster ONNX and OpenVINO backends for SparseEncoder models
Usage is as simple as
backend="onnx" or backend="openvino" when initializing a SparseEncoder to get started, but I also included utility functions for optimization, dynamic quantization, and static quantization, plus benchmarks.2οΈβ£ New
n-tuple-scores output format from mine_hard_negativesThis new output format is immediately compatible with the MarginMSELoss and SparseMarginMSELoss for training SentenceTransformer, CrossEncoder, and SparseEncoder losses.
3οΈβ£ Gathering across devices
When doing multi-GPU training using a loss that has in-batch negatives (e.g. MultipleNegativesRankingLoss), you can now use
gather_across_devices=True to load in-batch negatives from the other devices too! Essentially a free lunch, pretty big impact potential in my evals.4οΈβ£ Trackio support
If you also upgrade
transformers, and you install trackio with pip install trackio, then your experiments will also automatically be tracked locally with trackio. Just open up localhost and have a look at your losses/evals, no logins, no metric uploading.5οΈβ£ MTEB Documentation
We've added some documentation on evaluating SentenceTransformer models properly with MTEB. It's rudimentary as the documentation on the MTEB side is already great, but it should get you started.
Plus many more smaller features & fixes (crash fixes, compatibility with datasets v4, FIPS compatibility, etc.).
See the full release notes here: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/tag/v5.1.0
Big thanks to all of the contributors for helping with the release, many of the features from this release were proposed by others. I have a big list of future potential features that I'd love to add, but I'm
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βΌοΈSentence Transformers v5.0 is out! The biggest update yet introduces Sparse Embedding models, encode methods improvements, Router module for asymmetric models & much more. Sparse + Dense = π₯ hybrid search performance! Details:
1οΈβ£ Sparse Encoder Models
Brand new support for sparse embedding models that generate high-dimensional embeddings (30,000+ dims) where <1% are non-zero:
- Full SPLADE, Inference-free SPLADE, and CSR architecture support
- 4 new modules, 12 new losses, 9 new evaluators
- Integration with @elastic-co , @opensearch-project , @NAVER LABS Europe, @qdrant , @IBM , etc.
- Decode interpretable embeddings to understand token importance
- Hybrid search integration to get the best of both worlds
2οΈβ£ Enhanced Encode Methods & Multi-Processing
- Introduce encode_query & encode_document automatically use predefined prompts
- No more manual pool management - just pass device list directly to encode()
- Much cleaner and easier to use than the old multi-process approach
3οΈβ£ Router Module & Advanced Training
- Router module with different processing paths for queries vs documents
- Custom learning rates for different parameter groups
- Composite loss logging - see individual loss components
- Perfect for two-tower architectures
4οΈβ£ Comprehensive Documentation & Training
- New Training Overview, Loss Overview, API Reference docs
- 6 new training example documentation pages
- Full integration examples with major search engines
- Extensive blogpost on training sparse models
Read the comprehensive blogpost about training sparse embedding models: https://huggingface.co/blog/train-sparse-encoder
See the full release notes here: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/v5.0.0
What's next? We would love to hear from the community! What sparse encoder models would you like to see? And what new capabilities should Sentence Transformers handle - multimodal embeddings, late interaction models, or something else? Your feedback shapes our roadmap!
1οΈβ£ Sparse Encoder Models
Brand new support for sparse embedding models that generate high-dimensional embeddings (30,000+ dims) where <1% are non-zero:
- Full SPLADE, Inference-free SPLADE, and CSR architecture support
- 4 new modules, 12 new losses, 9 new evaluators
- Integration with @elastic-co , @opensearch-project , @NAVER LABS Europe, @qdrant , @IBM , etc.
- Decode interpretable embeddings to understand token importance
- Hybrid search integration to get the best of both worlds
2οΈβ£ Enhanced Encode Methods & Multi-Processing
- Introduce encode_query & encode_document automatically use predefined prompts
- No more manual pool management - just pass device list directly to encode()
- Much cleaner and easier to use than the old multi-process approach
3οΈβ£ Router Module & Advanced Training
- Router module with different processing paths for queries vs documents
- Custom learning rates for different parameter groups
- Composite loss logging - see individual loss components
- Perfect for two-tower architectures
4οΈβ£ Comprehensive Documentation & Training
- New Training Overview, Loss Overview, API Reference docs
- 6 new training example documentation pages
- Full integration examples with major search engines
- Extensive blogpost on training sparse models
Read the comprehensive blogpost about training sparse embedding models: https://huggingface.co/blog/train-sparse-encoder
See the full release notes here: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/v5.0.0
What's next? We would love to hear from the community! What sparse encoder models would you like to see? And what new capabilities should Sentence Transformers handle - multimodal embeddings, late interaction models, or something else? Your feedback shapes our roadmap!
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I just released Sentence Transformers v4.1; featuring ONNX and OpenVINO backends for rerankers offering 2-3x speedups and improved hard negatives mining which helps prepare stronger training datasets. Details:
ποΈ ONNX, OpenVINO, Optimization, Quantization
- I've added ONNX and OpenVINO support with just one extra argument: "backend" when loading the CrossEncoder reranker, e.g.:
- The
- I've uploaded ~340 ONNX & OpenVINO models for all existing models under the cross-encoder Hugging Face organization. You can use these without having to export when loading.
β Improved Hard Negatives Mining
- Added 'absolute_margin' and 'relative_margin' arguments to
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- Inspired by the excellent NV-Retriever paper from NVIDIA.
And several other small improvements. Check out the full release notes here: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/tag/v4.1.0
With this release, I introduce near-feature parity between the SentenceTransformer embedding & CrossEncoder reranker models, which I've wanted to do for quite some time! With rerankers very strongly supported now, it's time to look forward to other useful architectures!
ποΈ ONNX, OpenVINO, Optimization, Quantization
- I've added ONNX and OpenVINO support with just one extra argument: "backend" when loading the CrossEncoder reranker, e.g.:
CrossEncoder("cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2", backend="onnx")- The
export_optimized_onnx_model, export_dynamic_quantized_onnx_model, and export_static_quantized_openvino_model functions now work with CrossEncoder rerankers, allowing you to optimize (e.g. fusions, gelu approximations, etc.) or quantize (int8 weights) rerankers.- I've uploaded ~340 ONNX & OpenVINO models for all existing models under the cross-encoder Hugging Face organization. You can use these without having to export when loading.
β Improved Hard Negatives Mining
- Added 'absolute_margin' and 'relative_margin' arguments to
mine_hard_negatives. -
absolute_margin ensures that sim(query, negative) < sim(query, positive) - absolute_margin, i.e. an absolute margin between the negative & positive similarities.-
relative_margin ensures that sim(query, negative) < sim(query, positive) * (1 - relative_margin), i.e. a relative margin between the negative & positive similarities.- Inspired by the excellent NV-Retriever paper from NVIDIA.
And several other small improvements. Check out the full release notes here: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/tag/v4.1.0
With this release, I introduce near-feature parity between the SentenceTransformer embedding & CrossEncoder reranker models, which I've wanted to do for quite some time! With rerankers very strongly supported now, it's time to look forward to other useful architectures!
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βΌοΈSentence Transformers v4.0 is out! You can now train and finetune reranker models with multi-GPU training, bf16 support, loss logging, callbacks & much more. I also prove that finetuning on your domain helps much more than you might think.
1οΈβ£ Reranker Training Refactor
Reranker models can now be trained using an extensive trainer with a lot of powerful features:
- MultiGPU Training (Data Parallelism (DP) and Distributed Data Parallelism (DDP))
- bf16 training support; loss logging
- Evaluation datasets + evaluation loss
- Improved callback support + an excellent Weights & Biases integration
- Gradient checkpointing, gradient accumulation
- Model card generation
- Resuming from a training checkpoint without performance loss
- Hyperparameter Optimization
and much more!
Read my detailed blogpost to learn about the components that make up this new training approach: https://huggingface.co/blog/train-reranker
Notably, the release is fully backwards compatible: all deprecations are soft, meaning that they still work but emit a warning informing you how to upgrade.
2οΈβ£ New Reranker Losses
- 11 new losses:
- 2 traditional losses: BinaryCrossEntropy and CrossEntropy
- 2 distillation losses: MSE and MarginMSE
- 2 in-batch negatives losses: MNRL (a.k.a. InfoNCE) and CMNRL
- 5 learning to rank losses: Lambda, p-ListMLE, ListNet, RankNet, ListMLE
3οΈβ£ New Reranker Documentation
- New Training Overview, Loss Overview, API Reference docs
- 5 new, 1 refactored training examples docs pages
- 13 new, 6 refactored training scripts
- Migration guides (2.x -> 3.x, 3.x -> 4.x)
4οΈβ£ Blogpost
Alongside the release, I've written a blogpost where I finetune ModernBERT on a generic question-answer dataset. My finetunes easily outperform all general-purpose reranker models, even models 4x as big. Finetuning on your domain is definitely worth it: https://huggingface.co/blog/train-reranker
See the full release notes here: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/v4.0.1
1οΈβ£ Reranker Training Refactor
Reranker models can now be trained using an extensive trainer with a lot of powerful features:
- MultiGPU Training (Data Parallelism (DP) and Distributed Data Parallelism (DDP))
- bf16 training support; loss logging
- Evaluation datasets + evaluation loss
- Improved callback support + an excellent Weights & Biases integration
- Gradient checkpointing, gradient accumulation
- Model card generation
- Resuming from a training checkpoint without performance loss
- Hyperparameter Optimization
and much more!
Read my detailed blogpost to learn about the components that make up this new training approach: https://huggingface.co/blog/train-reranker
Notably, the release is fully backwards compatible: all deprecations are soft, meaning that they still work but emit a warning informing you how to upgrade.
2οΈβ£ New Reranker Losses
- 11 new losses:
- 2 traditional losses: BinaryCrossEntropy and CrossEntropy
- 2 distillation losses: MSE and MarginMSE
- 2 in-batch negatives losses: MNRL (a.k.a. InfoNCE) and CMNRL
- 5 learning to rank losses: Lambda, p-ListMLE, ListNet, RankNet, ListMLE
3οΈβ£ New Reranker Documentation
- New Training Overview, Loss Overview, API Reference docs
- 5 new, 1 refactored training examples docs pages
- 13 new, 6 refactored training scripts
- Migration guides (2.x -> 3.x, 3.x -> 4.x)
4οΈβ£ Blogpost
Alongside the release, I've written a blogpost where I finetune ModernBERT on a generic question-answer dataset. My finetunes easily outperform all general-purpose reranker models, even models 4x as big. Finetuning on your domain is definitely worth it: https://huggingface.co/blog/train-reranker
See the full release notes here: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/releases/v4.0.1
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An assembly of 18 European companies, labs, and universities have banded together to launch πͺπΊ EuroBERT! It's a state-of-the-art multilingual encoder for 15 European languages, designed to be finetuned for retrieval, classification, etc.
πͺπΊ 15 Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Dutch, Arabic, Turkish, Hindi
3οΈβ£ 3 model sizes: 210M, 610M, and 2.1B parameters - very very useful sizes in my opinion
β‘οΈ Sequence length of 8192 tokens! Nice to see these higher sequence lengths for encoders becoming more common.
βοΈ Architecture based on Llama, but with bi-directional (non-causal) attention to turn it into an encoder. Flash Attention 2 is supported.
π₯ A new Pareto frontier (stronger *and* smaller) for multilingual encoder models
π Evaluated against mDeBERTa, mGTE, XLM-RoBERTa for Retrieval, Classification, and Regression (after finetuning for each task separately): EuroBERT punches way above its weight.
π Detailed paper with all details, incl. data: FineWeb for English and CulturaX for multilingual data, The Stack v2 and Proof-Pile-2 for code.
Check out the release blogpost here: https://huggingface.co/blog/EuroBERT/release
* EuroBERT/EuroBERT-210m
* EuroBERT/EuroBERT-610m
* EuroBERT/EuroBERT-2.1B
The next step is for researchers to build upon the 3 EuroBERT base models and publish strong retrieval, zero-shot classification, etc. models for all to use. I'm very much looking forward to it!
πͺπΊ 15 Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Dutch, Arabic, Turkish, Hindi
3οΈβ£ 3 model sizes: 210M, 610M, and 2.1B parameters - very very useful sizes in my opinion
β‘οΈ Sequence length of 8192 tokens! Nice to see these higher sequence lengths for encoders becoming more common.
βοΈ Architecture based on Llama, but with bi-directional (non-causal) attention to turn it into an encoder. Flash Attention 2 is supported.
π₯ A new Pareto frontier (stronger *and* smaller) for multilingual encoder models
π Evaluated against mDeBERTa, mGTE, XLM-RoBERTa for Retrieval, Classification, and Regression (after finetuning for each task separately): EuroBERT punches way above its weight.
π Detailed paper with all details, incl. data: FineWeb for English and CulturaX for multilingual data, The Stack v2 and Proof-Pile-2 for code.
Check out the release blogpost here: https://huggingface.co/blog/EuroBERT/release
* EuroBERT/EuroBERT-210m
* EuroBERT/EuroBERT-610m
* EuroBERT/EuroBERT-2.1B
The next step is for researchers to build upon the 3 EuroBERT base models and publish strong retrieval, zero-shot classification, etc. models for all to use. I'm very much looking forward to it!
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