distilbert base nli mean tokens

Providersentence-transformers
Categorynatural-language-inference
Licenseapache-2.0
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Overview

The distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens model is a streamlined transformer optimized for generating high-quality sentence embeddings. By distilling BERT and fine-tuning it on Natural Language Inference (NLI) data, it maps sentences into a dense vector space where semantic similarity correlates with cosine distance. For developers, this makes it an ideal choice for clustering, semantic search, and duplicate detection tasks where low latency is critical. Unlike full-scale BERT models, this version is lightweight enough for CPU-based inference while maintaining strong performance in capturing contextual meaning, making it a reliable drop-in replacement for basic keyword matching in production pipelines.

Highlights

  • Optimized for fast, low-latency sentence embedding generation
  • Ideal for semantic search and document clustering
  • Efficient CPU inference compared to full BERT models
  • Permissive Apache-2.0 license for commercial deployment
  • High accuracy in measuring semantic textual similarity

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/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens")

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/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens

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/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens 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/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens

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/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens')
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens')

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/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens

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/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens 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/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download
git lfs install
git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens.git

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens.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/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens')

Full Documentation

来源: HuggingFace

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

  • sentence-transformers

  • feature-extraction

  • sentence-similarity

  • transformers

pipeline_tag: feature-extraction
---

⚠️ This model is deprecated. Please don't use it as it produces sentence embeddings of low quality. You can find recommended sentence embedding models here: SBERT.net - Pretrained Models

sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens

This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768 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/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens')
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/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens') model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens')

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: DistilBertModel 
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 768, '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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