paraphrase MiniLM L3 v2

Providersentence-transformers
Categorysentence-similarity
Licenseapache-2.0
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Overview

The paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2 is a lightweight sentence-transformer optimized for high-throughput semantic similarity tasks. Unlike larger LLMs, this model is specifically tuned to map sentences into a dense vector space where cosine similarity reflects semantic equivalence. For developers, this means it is an ideal candidate for building efficient RAG pipelines, deduplicating large datasets, or powering real-time search indexing without the latency or cost of a GPU-heavy architecture. It balances a minimal memory footprint with competitive accuracy, making it suitable for edge deployment or sidecar services in a microservices architecture. Integration is straightforward via the sentence-transformers library, allowing for rapid prototyping of clustering and retrieval systems.

Highlights

  • Low-latency semantic similarity and sentence embedding generation
  • Optimized for high-throughput RAG and search indexing
  • Minimal memory footprint ideal for edge deployment
  • Apache-2.0 license for flexible commercial integration

Usage

Install
# Install Hugging Face transformers
pip install transformers torch
SDK Usage
# Load model with transformers
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2")

Hugging Face Download

We recommend downloading the model via the Hugging Face CLI or Hub SDK.

Guidance:Before downloading, install huggingface_hub with:

Guidance
pip install -U huggingface_hub

CLI Download

Download the full repository

Download the full repository
huggingface-cli download sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. config.json into ./dir)

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. config.json into ./dir)
huggingface-cli download sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2 config.json --local-dir ./dir

See the official docs for more CLI options

SDK Download

SDK Download
# 模型下载
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2

Model files are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub — download directly via HF CLI / SDK / Git, not through this site.

PyTorch / Transformers Usage

Install Transformers

Install Transformers
pip install -U transformers torch

Load the model and run inference

Load the model and run inference
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2')
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2')

Model Download

We recommend downloading the model via the ModelScope CLI or SDK.

Guidance:Before downloading, install ModelScope with:

Guidance
pip install modelscope

CLI Download

Download the full repository

Download the full repository
modelscope download --model sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. README.md into ./dir)

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. README.md into ./dir)
modelscope download --model sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2 README.md --local_dir ./dir

See the docs for more CLI options

SDK Download

SDK Download
# 模型下载
from modelscope import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download
git lfs install
git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2.git

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2.git

ModelScope 模型页直接下载模型文件;无需将模型文件放在本站服务器。

Notebook Quickstart

Install the ModelScope library

Install the ModelScope library
pip install "modelscope[audio,cv,nlp,multi-modal,science]" -f https://modelscope.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/releases/repo.html

Load the model and run inference

Load the model and run inference
from modelscope.pipelines import pipeline
from modelscope.utils.constant import Tasks

p = pipeline('text-generation', 'sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2')

Full Documentation

来源: HuggingFace

---
license: apache-2.0
library_name: sentence-transformers
tags:

  • sentence-transformers

  • feature-extraction

  • sentence-similarity

  • transformers

datasets:
  • flax-sentence-embeddings/stackexchange_xml

  • s2orc

  • ms_marco

  • wiki_atomic_edits

  • snli

  • multi_nli

  • embedding-data/altlex

  • embedding-data/simple-wiki

  • embedding-data/flickr30k-captions

  • embedding-data/coco_captions

  • embedding-data/sentence-compression

  • embedding-data/QQP

  • yahoo_answers_topics

pipeline_tag: sentence-similarity
---

sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2

This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 384 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.

Usage (Sentence-Transformers)

Using this model becomes easy when you have sentence-transformers installed:

code
pip install -U sentence-transformers

Then you can use the model like this:

python
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
sentences = ["This is an example sentence", "Each sentence is converted"]

model = SentenceTransformer('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Usage (HuggingFace Transformers)

Without sentence-transformers, you can use the model like this: First, you pass your input through the transformer model, then you have to apply the right pooling-operation on-top of the contextualized word embeddings.
python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
import torch

#Mean Pooling - Take attention mask into account for correct averaging
def mean_pooling(model_output, attention_mask):
token_embeddings = model_output[0] #First element of model_output contains all token embeddings
input_mask_expanded = attention_mask.unsqueeze(-1).expand(token_embeddings.size()).float()
return torch.sum(token_embeddings * input_mask_expanded, 1) / torch.clamp(input_mask_expanded.sum(1), min=1e-9)

Sentences we want sentence embeddings for

sentences = ['This is an example sentence', 'Each sentence is converted']

Load model from HuggingFace Hub

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2') model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2')

Tokenize sentences

encoded_input = tokenizer(sentences, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt')

Compute token embeddings

with torch.no_grad(): model_output = model(**encoded_input)

Perform pooling. In this case, max pooling.

sentence_embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])

print("Sentence embeddings:")
print(sentence_embeddings)

Full Model Architecture

code
SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 128, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: BertModel 
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 384, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False})
)

Citing & Authors

This model was trained by sentence-transformers.

If you find this model helpful, feel free to cite our publication Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks:
``bibtex
@inproceedings{reimers-2019-sentence-bert,
title = "Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks",
author = "Reimers, Nils and Gurevych, Iryna",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = "11",
year = "2019",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10084",
}
``

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