This article will walk you through the usage of the paraphrase-spanish-distilroberta model from the sentence-transformers library. This model is designed to help you measure the semantic similarity of sentences in Spanish and English. Let’s dive in!

What is the Paraphrase Model?

The paraphrase-spanish-distilroberta model maps sentences and paragraphs into a 768-dimensional dense vector space. This means it can effectively determine how similar two pieces of text are, which is particularly useful in tasks like clustering or semantic searching.

Getting Started

Before you can use this model, ensure you have the sentence-transformers library installed. If not, you can install it using pip:

pip install -U sentence-transformers

Usage with Sentence-Transformers

Using the model with the sentence-transformers library is straightforward. Here’s a little analogy to help explain it:

Imagine you are a librarian at a large library. Each sentence is a book, and you want to categorize them by their subject. The sentence-transformers model is like a smart assistant that helps you place each book in its proper section. When you feed the librarian a list of titles (your sentences), it will quickly identify where each one belongs in the library (create embeddings).

Here’s how you use the model:

python
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

sentences = ["Este es un ejemplo", "Cada oración es transformada"]
model = SentenceTransformer('hackathon-pln-es/paraphrase-spanish-distilroberta')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Usage with HuggingFace Transformers

If you prefer using sentence-transformers, you can also implement it through HuggingFace Transformers. In this scenario, it’s like you’re baking a cake (getting embeddings) but you need to go through several steps (tokenization and pooling) to get the final product:

python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F

# Mean Pooling
def mean_pooling(model_output, attention_mask):
    token_embeddings = model_output[0]
    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 = ["Este es un ejemplo", "Cada oración es transformada"]
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('hackathon-pln-es/paraphrase-spanish-distilroberta')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('hackathon-pln-es/paraphrase-spanish-distilroberta')

encoded_input = tokenizer(sentences, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt')
with torch.no_grad():
    model_output = model(**encoded_input)

sentence_embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])
sentence_embeddings = F.normalize(sentence_embeddings, p=2, dim=1)

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

Model Architecture

The SentenceTransformer follows a specific architecture:

• Transformer model (like BertModel)
• Pooling layer that captures the best representation of each sentence

Evaluation Results

Using this model, the similarity evaluation showed promising results, measuring how well sentences align semantically across different languages.

Intended Uses

This model is ideal for encoding sentences and short paragraphs. It outputs a vector that captures their semantic information, enabling applications in information retrieval, clustering, or sentence similarity tasks.

Troubleshooting

While using the model, you may encounter some issues. Here are a few troubleshooting tips:

• Ensure you have the correct version of the sentence-transformers library installed.
• Check your input format; make sure the sentences are in correct list format.
• If embeddings are not generated, verify that the model name you are using is correct.
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