README.md

---
base_model: FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-large
library_name: sentence-transformers
metrics:
- pearson_cosine
- spearman_cosine
- pearson_manhattan
- spearman_manhattan
- pearson_euclidean
- spearman_euclidean
- pearson_dot
- spearman_dot
- pearson_max
- spearman_max
pipeline_tag: sentence-similarity
tags:
- sentence-transformers
- sentence-similarity
- feature-extraction
- mteb
model-index:
- name: omarelshehy/Arabic-STS-Matryoshka
  results:
  - dataset:
      config: ar-ar
      name: MTEB STS17 (ar-ar)
      revision: faeb762787bd10488a50c8b5be4a3b82e411949c
      split: test
      type: mteb/sts17-crosslingual-sts
    metrics:
    - type: cosine_pearson
      value: 81.88865368687937
    - type: cosine_spearman
      value: 82.90236782891859
    - type: euclidean_pearson
      value: 81.21254869664341
    - type: euclidean_spearman
      value: 82.28002933909444
    - type: main_score
      value: 82.90236782891859
    - type: manhattan_pearson
      value: 81.26482951395201
    - type: manhattan_spearman
      value: 82.36146806563059
    - type: pearson
      value: 81.88865526924
    - type: spearman
      value: 82.89304993265725
    task:
      type: STS
license: apache-2.0
language:
- ar
---

# SentenceTransformer based on FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-large

This is an **Arabic only** [sentence-transformers](https://www.SBERT.net) model finetuned from [FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-large](https://huggingface.co/FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-large). It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 1024-dimensional dense vector space and can be used for semantic textual similarity, semantic search, paraphrase mining, text classification, clustering, and more.

The model is trained using the MatryoshkaLoss for embeddings of size 1024, 786, 512, 128, and 64 for storage optimization (See [Evaluation](https://huggingface.co/omarelshehy/Arabic-STS-Matryoshka#evaluation)). 

## Model Details

### Model Description
- **Model Type:** Sentence Transformer
- **Base model:** [FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-large](https://huggingface.co/FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-large) <!-- at revision c23d21b0620b635a76227c604d44e43a9f0ee389 -->
- **Maximum Sequence Length:** 512 tokens
- **Output Dimensionality:** 1024 tokens
- **Similarity Function:** Cosine Similarity

## Usage

### Direct Usage (Sentence Transformers)

First install the Sentence Transformers library:

```bash
pip install -U sentence-transformers
```

Then you can load this model and run inference.
```python
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

# Download from the 🤗 Hub
matryoshka_dim = 786
model = SentenceTransformer("omarelshehy/Arabic-STS-Matryoshka", truncate_dim=matryoshka_dim)
# Run inference
sentences = [
    'أحب قراءة الكتب في أوقات فراغي.',
    'أستمتع بقراءة القصص في المساء قبل النوم.',
    'القراءة تعزز معرفتي وتفتح أمامي آفاق جديدة.',
]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings.shape)
# [3, 1024]

# Get the similarity scores for the embeddings
similarities = model.similarity(embeddings, embeddings)
print(similarities.shape)
# [3, 3]
```

# Evaluation

### Metrics

#### Semantic Similarity
* Dataset: `sts-dev`
* Evaluated with [<code>EmbeddingSimilarityEvaluator</code>](https://sbert.net/docs/package_reference/sentence_transformer/evaluation.html#sentence_transformers.evaluation.EmbeddingSimilarityEvaluator)

| Metric              | Value      |
|:--------------------|:-----------|
| pearson_cosine      | 0.8256     |
| **spearman_cosine** | **0.8275** |
| pearson_manhattan   | 0.8228     |
| spearman_manhattan  | 0.8284     |
| pearson_euclidean   | 0.8232     |
| spearman_euclidean  | 0.8289     |
| pearson_dot         | 0.8017     |
| spearman_dot        | 0.8004     |
| pearson_max         | 0.8256     |
| spearman_max        | 0.8289     |

#### Embedding Size and Performance 

This plot shows the slight degradation of performance qith smaller embedding sizes (worth investigating for your case since the benefits are huge compared to the slight loss in performance)

![Plot](https://huggingface.co/omarelshehy/Arabic-STS-Matryoshka/resolve/main/performance_vs_embeddingsize.png)


## Citation

### BibTeX

#### Sentence Transformers
```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 = "https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10084",
}
```

#### MatryoshkaLoss
```bibtex
@misc{kusupati2024matryoshka,
    title={Matryoshka Representation Learning},
    author={Aditya Kusupati and Gantavya Bhatt and Aniket Rege and Matthew Wallingford and Aditya Sinha and Vivek Ramanujan and William Howard-Snyder and Kaifeng Chen and Sham Kakade and Prateek Jain and Ali Farhadi},
    year={2024},
    eprint={2205.13147},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.LG}
}
```

#### MultipleNegativesRankingLoss
```bibtex
@misc{henderson2017efficient,
    title={Efficient Natural Language Response Suggestion for Smart Reply},
    author={Matthew Henderson and Rami Al-Rfou and Brian Strope and Yun-hsuan Sung and Laszlo Lukacs and Ruiqi Guo and Sanjiv Kumar and Balint Miklos and Ray Kurzweil},
    year={2017},
    eprint={1705.00652},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```

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