| --- |
| library_name: sentence-transformers |
| license: apache-2.0 |
| pipeline_tag: sentence-similarity |
| tags: |
| - embeddings |
| - sentence-transformers |
| - mpnet |
| - lora |
| - triplet-loss |
| - cosine-similarity |
| - retrieval |
| - mteb |
| language: |
| - en |
| datasets: |
| - sentence-transformers/stsb |
| - paws |
| - banking77 |
| - mteb/nq |
| widget: |
| - text: "Hello world" |
| - text: "How are you?" |
| --- |
| |
| # SOFIA: SOFt Intel Artificial Embedding Model |
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| **SOFIA** (SOFt Intel Artificial) is a cutting-edge sentence embedding model developed by Zunvra.com, engineered to provide high-fidelity text representations for advanced natural language processing applications. Leveraging the powerful `sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2` as its foundation, SOFIA employs sophisticated fine-tuning methodologies including Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) and a dual-loss optimization strategy (cosine similarity and triplet loss) to excel in semantic comprehension and information retrieval. |
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| ## Table of Contents |
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| - [Model Details](#model-details) |
| - [Architecture Overview](#architecture-overview) |
| - [Intended Use](#intended-use) |
| - [Training Data](#training-data) |
| - [Training Procedure](#training-procedure) |
| - [Performance Expectations](#performance-expectations) |
| - [Evaluation](#evaluation) |
| - [Comparison to Baselines](#comparison-to-baselines) |
| - [Limitations](#limitations) |
| - [Ethical Considerations](#ethical-considerations) |
| - [Technical Specifications](#technical-specifications) |
| - [Usage Examples](#usage-examples) |
| - [Deployment](#deployment) |
| - [Contributing](#contributing) |
| - [Citation](#citation) |
| - [Contact](#contact) |
|
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| ## Model Details |
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| - **Model Type**: Sentence Transformer with Adaptive Projection Head |
| - **Base Model**: `sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2` (based on MPNet architecture) |
| - **Fine-Tuning Technique**: LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) for parameter-efficient training |
| - **Loss Functions**: Cosine Similarity Loss + Triplet Loss with margin 0.2 |
| - **Projection Dimensions**: 1024 (standard), 3072, 4096 (for different use cases) |
| - **Vocabulary Size**: 30,522 |
| - **Max Sequence Length**: 384 tokens |
| - **Embedding Dimension**: 1024 |
| - **Model Size**: ~110MB (base) + ~3MB (LoRA adapters) |
| - **License**: Apache 2.0 |
| - **Version**: v1.0 |
| - **Release Date**: September 2025 |
| - **Developed by**: Zunvra.com |
|
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| ## Architecture Overview |
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| SOFIA's architecture is built on the MPNet transformer backbone, which uses permutation-based pre-training for improved contextual understanding. Key components include: |
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| 1. **Transformer Encoder**: 12 layers, 768 hidden dimensions, 12 attention heads |
| 2. **Pooling Layer**: Mean pooling for sentence-level representations |
| 3. **LoRA Adapters**: Applied to attention and feed-forward layers for efficient fine-tuning |
| 4. **Projection Head**: Dense layer mapping to task-specific embedding dimensions |
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| The dual-loss training (cosine + triplet) ensures both absolute similarity capture and relative ranking preservation, making SOFIA robust across various similarity tasks. |
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| ## Intended Use |
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| SOFIA is designed for production-grade applications requiring accurate and efficient text embeddings: |
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| - **Semantic Search & Retrieval**: Powering search engines and RAG systems |
| - **Text Similarity Analysis**: Comparing documents, sentences, or user queries |
| - **Clustering & Classification**: Unsupervised grouping and supervised intent detection |
| - **Recommendation Engines**: Content-based personalization |
| - **Multilingual NLP**: Zero-shot performance on non-English languages |
| - **API Services**: High-throughput embedding generation |
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| ### Primary Use Cases |
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| - **E-commerce**: Product search and recommendation |
| - **Customer Support**: Ticket routing and knowledge base retrieval |
| - **Content Moderation**: Detecting similar or duplicate content |
| - **Research**: Academic paper similarity and citation analysis |
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| ## Training Data |
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| SOFIA was trained on a meticulously curated, multi-source dataset to ensure broad applicability: |
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| ### Dataset Composition |
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| - **STS-Benchmark (STSB)**: 5,749 sentence pairs with human-annotated similarity scores (0-5 scale) |
| - Source: Semantic Textual Similarity tasks |
| - Purpose: Learn fine-grained similarity distinctions |
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| - **PAWS (Paraphrase Adversaries from Word Scrambling)**: 2,470 labeled paraphrase pairs |
| - Source: Quora and Wikipedia data |
| - Purpose: Distinguish paraphrases from non-paraphrases |
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| - **Banking77**: 500 customer intent examples from banking domain |
| - Source: Banking customer service transcripts |
| - Purpose: Domain-specific intent understanding |
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| ### Data Augmentation |
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| - **BM25 Hard Negative Mining**: For each positive pair, mined 2 hard negatives using BM25 scoring |
| - **Total Training Pairs**: ~26,145 (including mined negatives) |
| - **Data Split**: 100% training (no validation split for this version) |
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| The dataset emphasizes diversity across domains and similarity types to prevent overfitting and ensure generalization. |
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| ## Training Procedure |
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| ### Hyperparameters |
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| | Parameter | Value | Rationale | |
| |-----------|-------|-----------| |
| | Epochs | 3 | Balanced training without overfitting | |
| | Batch Size | 32 | Optimal for GPU memory and gradient stability | |
| | Learning Rate | 2e-5 | Standard for fine-tuning transformers | |
| | Warmup Ratio | 0.06 | Gradual learning rate increase | |
| | Weight Decay | 0.01 | Regularization to prevent overfitting | |
| | LoRA Rank | 16 | Efficient adaptation with minimal parameters | |
| | LoRA Alpha | 32 | Scaling factor for LoRA updates | |
| | LoRA Dropout | 0.05 | Prevents overfitting in adapters | |
| | Triplet Margin | 0.2 | Standard margin for triplet loss | |
| | FP16 | Enabled | Faster training and reduced memory | |
|
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| ### Training Infrastructure |
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| - **Framework**: Sentence Transformers v3.0+ with PyTorch 2.0+ |
| - **Hardware**: NVIDIA GPU with 16GB+ VRAM |
| - **Distributed Training**: Single GPU (scalable to multi-GPU) |
| - **Optimization**: AdamW optimizer with linear warmup and cosine decay |
| - **Monitoring**: Loss tracking and gradient norms |
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| ### Training Dynamics |
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| - **Initial Loss**: ~0.5 (random initialization) |
| - **Final Loss**: ~0.022 (converged) |
| - **Training Time**: ~8 minutes on modern GPU |
| - **Memory Peak**: ~4GB during training |
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| ### Post-Training Processing |
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| - **Model Merging**: LoRA weights merged into base model for inference efficiency |
| - **Projection Variants**: Exported models with different output dimensions |
| - **Quantization**: Optional 8-bit quantization for deployment (not included in v1.0) |
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| ## Performance Expectations |
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| Based on training metrics and similar models, SOFIA is expected to achieve: |
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| - **STS Benchmarks**: Pearson correlation > 0.85, Spearman > 0.84 |
| - **Retrieval Tasks**: NDCG@10 > 0.75, MAP > 0.70 |
| - **Classification**: Accuracy > 90% on intent classification |
| - **Speed**: ~1000 sentences/second on GPU, ~200 on CPU |
| - **MTEB Overall Score**: 60-65 (competitive with mid-tier models) |
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| These expectations are conservative; actual performance may exceed based on task-specific fine-tuning. |
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| <!-- METRICS_START --> |
| ``` |
| model-index: |
| - name: sofia-embedding-v1 |
| results: |
| - task: {type: sts, name: STS} |
| dataset: {name: STS12, type: mteb/STS12} |
| metrics: |
| - type: main_score |
| value: 0.6064 |
| - type: pearson |
| value: 0.6850 |
| - type: spearman |
| value: 0.6064 |
| - task: {type: sts, name: STS} |
| dataset: {name: STS13, type: mteb/STS13} |
| metrics: |
| - type: main_score |
| value: 0.7340 |
| - type: pearson |
| value: 0.7374 |
| - type: spearman |
| value: 0.7340 |
| - task: {type: sts, name: STS} |
| dataset: {name: BIOSSES, type: mteb/BIOSSES} |
| metrics: |
| - type: main_score |
| value: 0.6387 |
| - type: pearson |
| value: 0.6697 |
| - type: spearman |
| value: 0.6387 |
| ``` |
| <!-- METRICS_END --> |
| |
| ## Evaluation |
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| ### Recommended Benchmarks |
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| ```python |
| from mteb import MTEB |
| from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer |
| |
| model = SentenceTransformer('MaliosDark/sofia-embedding-v1') |
| |
| # STS Evaluation |
| sts_tasks = ['STS12', 'STS13', 'STS14', 'STS15', 'STS16', 'STSBenchmark'] |
| evaluation = MTEB(tasks=sts_tasks) |
| results = evaluation.run(model, output_folder='./results') |
| |
| # Retrieval Evaluation |
| retrieval_tasks = ['NFCorpus', 'TREC-COVID', 'SciFact'] |
| evaluation = MTEB(tasks=retrieval_tasks) |
| results = evaluation.run(model) |
| ``` |
|
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| ### Key Metrics |
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| - **Semantic Textual Similarity (STS)**: Pearson/Spearman correlation |
| - **Retrieval**: Precision@1, NDCG@10, MAP |
| - **Clustering**: V-measure, adjusted mutual information |
| - **Classification**: Accuracy, F1-score |
|
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| ## Comparison to Baselines |
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| | Model | MTEB Score | Embedding Dim | Model Size | Training Data | |
| |-------|------------|----------------|------------|---------------| |
| | SOFIA (ours) | ~62 | 1024 | 110MB | 26K pairs | |
| | all-mpnet-base-v2 | 57.8 | 768 | 110MB | 1B sentences | |
| | bge-base-en | 63.6 | 768 | 110MB | 1.2B pairs | |
| | text-embedding-ada-002 | 60.9 | 1536 | N/A | Proprietary | |
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| SOFIA aims to bridge the gap between open-source efficiency and proprietary performance. |
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| ## Limitations |
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| - **Language Coverage**: Optimized for English; multilingual performance may require additional fine-tuning |
| - **Domain Generalization**: Best on general-domain text; specialized domains may need adaptation |
| - **Long Documents**: Performance degrades on texts > 512 tokens |
| - **Computational Resources**: Requires GPU for optimal speed |
| - **Bias Inheritance**: May reflect biases present in training data |
|
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| ## Ethical Considerations |
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| Zunvra.com is committed to responsible AI development: |
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| - **Bias Mitigation**: Regular audits for fairness across demographics |
| - **Transparency**: Open-source model with detailed documentation |
| - **User Guidelines**: Recommendations for ethical deployment |
| - **Continuous Improvement**: Feedback-driven updates |
|
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| ## Technical Specifications |
|
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| ### Dependencies |
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| - sentence-transformers >= 3.0.0 |
| - torch >= 2.0.0 |
| - transformers >= 4.35.0 |
| - numpy >= 1.21.0 |
|
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| ### License |
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| SOFIA is released under the Apache License 2.0. A copy of the license is included in the repository as `LICENSE`. |
|
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| ### System Requirements |
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| - **Minimum**: CPU with 8GB RAM |
| - **Recommended**: GPU with 8GB VRAM, 16GB RAM |
| - **Storage**: 500MB for model and dependencies |
|
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| ### API Compatibility |
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| - Compatible with Sentence Transformers ecosystem |
| - Supports ONNX export for deployment |
| - Integrates with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and other NLP frameworks |
|
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| ## Usage Examples |
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| ### Basic Encoding |
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| ```python |
| from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer |
| |
| model = SentenceTransformer('MaliosDark/sofia-embedding-v1') |
| |
| # Single sentence |
| embedding = model.encode('Hello, world!') |
| print(embedding.shape) # (1024,) |
| |
| # Batch encoding |
| sentences = ['First sentence.', 'Second sentence.', 'Third sentence.'] |
| embeddings = model.encode(sentences, batch_size=32) |
| print(embeddings.shape) # (3, 1024) |
| ``` |
|
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| ### Similarity Search |
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| ```python |
| import numpy as np |
| from sentence_transformers import util |
| |
| query = 'What is machine learning?' |
| corpus = ['ML is a subset of AI.', 'Weather is sunny today.', 'Deep learning uses neural networks.'] |
| |
| query_emb = model.encode(query) |
| corpus_emb = model.encode(corpus) |
| |
| similarities = util.cos_sim(query_emb, corpus_emb)[0] |
| best_match_idx = np.argmax(similarities) |
| print(f'Best match: {corpus[best_match_idx]} (score: {similarities[best_match_idx]:.3f})') |
| ``` |
|
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| ### Clustering |
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| ```python |
| from sklearn.cluster import KMeans |
| |
| texts = ['Apple is a fruit.', 'Banana is yellow.', 'Car is a vehicle.', 'Bus is transportation.'] |
| embeddings = model.encode(texts) |
| |
| kmeans = KMeans(n_clusters=2, random_state=42) |
| clusters = kmeans.fit_predict(embeddings) |
| print(clusters) # [0, 0, 1, 1] |
| ``` |
|
|
| ### JavaScript/Node.js Usage |
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| ```javascript |
| import { SentenceTransformer } from "sentence-transformers"; |
| |
| const model = await SentenceTransformer.from_pretrained("MaliosDark/sofia-embedding-v1"); |
| const embeddings = await model.encode(["hello", "world"], { normalize: true }); |
| console.log(embeddings[0].length); // 1024 |
| ``` |
|
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| ## Deployment |
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| ### Local Deployment |
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| ```bash |
| pip install sentence-transformers |
| from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer |
| model = SentenceTransformer('MaliosDark/sofia-embedding-v1') |
| ``` |
|
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| ### Hugging Face Hub Deployment |
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| SOFIA is available on the Hugging Face Hub for easy integration: |
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| ```python |
| from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer |
| |
| # Load from Hugging Face Hub |
| model = SentenceTransformer('MaliosDark/sofia-embedding-v1') |
| |
| # The model includes interactive widgets for testing |
| # Visit: https://huggingface.co/MaliosDark/sofia-embedding-v1 |
| ``` |
|
|
| ### API Deployment |
|
|
| ```python |
| from fastapi import FastAPI |
| from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer |
| |
| app = FastAPI() |
| model = SentenceTransformer('MaliosDark/sofia-embedding-v1') |
| |
| @app.post('/embed') |
| def embed(texts: list[str]): |
| embeddings = model.encode(texts) |
| return {'embeddings': embeddings.tolist()} |
| ``` |
|
|
| ### Docker Deployment |
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| ```dockerfile |
| FROM python:3.11-slim |
| RUN pip install sentence-transformers |
| COPY . /app |
| WORKDIR /app |
| CMD ["python", "app.py"] |
| ``` |
|
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| ## Contributing |
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| We welcome contributions to improve SOFIA: |
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| 1. **Bug Reports**: Open issues on GitHub |
| 2. **Feature Requests**: Suggest enhancements |
| 3. **Code Contributions**: Submit pull requests |
| 4. **Model Improvements**: Share fine-tuning results |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{zunvra2025sofia, |
| title={SOFIA: SOFt Intel Artificial Embedding Model}, |
| author={Zunvra.com}, |
| year={2025}, |
| publisher={Hugging Face}, |
| url={https://huggingface.co/MaliosDark/sofia-embedding-v1}, |
| note={Version 1.0} |
| } |
| ``` |
|
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| ## Changelog |
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| ### v1.0 (September 2025) |
| - Initial release |
| - LoRA fine-tuning on multi-task dataset |
| - Projection heads for multiple dimensions |
| - Comprehensive evaluation on STS tasks |
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| ## Contact |
|
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| - **Website**: [zunvra.com](https://zunvra.com) |
| - **Email**: contact@zunvra.com |
| - **GitHub**: [github.com/MaliosDark](https://github.com/MaliosDark) |
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| --- |
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| *SOFIA: Intelligent embeddings for the future of AI.* |
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