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<a href=#model-list>Model List</a> |
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<a href=#usage>Usage</a> |
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<a href="#evaluation">Evaluation</a> |
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************* π**Updates**π *************
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- 09/12/2023: New Release:
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- **New reranker model**: release
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- **update embedding model**: release bge-*-v1.5 embedding model to alleviate the issue of the similarity distribution, and enhance its retrieval ability without instruction.
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- 09/07/2023: Update [fine-tune code](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/blob/master/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/README.md): Add script to mine hard negatives and support adding instruction during fine-tuning.
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- 08/09/2023: BGE Models are integrated into **Langchain**, you can use it like [this](#using-langchain); C-MTEB **leaderboard** is [available](https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard).
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- 08/05/2023: Release base-scale and small-scale models, **best performance among the models of the same size π€**
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\*: If you need to search the relevant passages to a query, we suggest to add the instruction to the query; in other cases, no instruction is needed, just use the original query directly. In all cases, **no instruction** needs to be added to passages.
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\**: To balance the accuracy and time cost, cross-encoder is widely used to re-rank top-k documents retrieved by other simple models.
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For examples, use bge embedding model to retrieve top 100 relevant documents, and then use bge reranker to re-rank the top 100 document to get the final top-3 results.
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<!-- ### How to fine-tune bge embedding model? -->
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Following this [example](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/finetune) to prepare data and fine-tune your model.
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Some suggestions:
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- Mine hard negatives following this [example](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/finetune#
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- If you pre-train bge on your data, the pre-trained model cannot be directly used to calculate similarity, and it must be fine-tuned with contrastive learning before computing similarity.
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- If the accuracy of the fine-tuned model is still not high, it is recommended to use/fine-tune the cross-encoder model (bge-reranker) to re-rank top-k results. Hard negatives also are needed to fine-tune reranker.
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which is more accurate than embedding model (i.e., bi-encoder) but more time-consuming than embedding model.
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Therefore, it can be used to re-rank the top-k documents returned by embedding model.
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We train the cross-encoder on a multilingual pair data,
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The data format is the same as embedding model, so you can fine-tune it easily following our example.
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More details pelease refer to [./FlagEmbedding/reranker/README.md](
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## Contact
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<h4 align="center">
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<a href=#model-list>Model List</a> |
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<a href=#frequently-asked-questions>FAQ</a> |
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<a href=#usage>Usage</a> |
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<a href="#evaluation">Evaluation</a> |
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<a href="#train">Train</a> |
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************* π**Updates**π *************
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- 09/12/2023: New Release:
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- **New reranker model**: release cross-encoder models `BAAI/bge-reranker-base` and `BAAI/bge-reranker-large`, which are more powerful than embedding model. We recommend to use/fine-tune them to re-rank top-k documents returned by embedding models.
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- **update embedding model**: release `bge-*-v1.5` embedding model to alleviate the issue of the similarity distribution, and enhance its retrieval ability without instruction.
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- 09/07/2023: Update [fine-tune code](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/blob/master/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/README.md): Add script to mine hard negatives and support adding instruction during fine-tuning.
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- 08/09/2023: BGE Models are integrated into **Langchain**, you can use it like [this](#using-langchain); C-MTEB **leaderboard** is [available](https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard).
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- 08/05/2023: Release base-scale and small-scale models, **best performance among the models of the same size π€**
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\*: If you need to search the relevant passages to a query, we suggest to add the instruction to the query; in other cases, no instruction is needed, just use the original query directly. In all cases, **no instruction** needs to be added to passages.
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\**: Different embedding model, reranker is a cross-encoder, which cannot be used to generate embedding. To balance the accuracy and time cost, cross-encoder is widely used to re-rank top-k documents retrieved by other simple models.
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For examples, use bge embedding model to retrieve top 100 relevant documents, and then use bge reranker to re-rank the top 100 document to get the final top-3 results.
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<!-- ### How to fine-tune bge embedding model? -->
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Following this [example](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/finetune) to prepare data and fine-tune your model.
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Some suggestions:
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- Mine hard negatives following this [example](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/finetune#hard-negatives), which can improve the retrieval performance.
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- If you pre-train bge on your data, the pre-trained model cannot be directly used to calculate similarity, and it must be fine-tuned with contrastive learning before computing similarity.
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- If the accuracy of the fine-tuned model is still not high, it is recommended to use/fine-tune the cross-encoder model (bge-reranker) to re-rank top-k results. Hard negatives also are needed to fine-tune reranker.
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which is more accurate than embedding model (i.e., bi-encoder) but more time-consuming than embedding model.
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Therefore, it can be used to re-rank the top-k documents returned by embedding model.
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We train the cross-encoder on a multilingual pair data,
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The data format is the same as embedding model, so you can fine-tune it easily following our [example](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/examples/reranker).
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More details pelease refer to [./FlagEmbedding/reranker/README.md](https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding/tree/master/FlagEmbedding/reranker)
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## Contact
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