README.md

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license: cc
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# MARS Encoder for Multi-agent Response Selection
This model was trained using [SentenceTransformers](https://sbert.net) [Cross-Encoder](https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/cross-encoder/README.html) class and is the model used in the paper [One Agent To Rule Them All: Towards Multi-agent Conversational AI](https://csclarke.com/assets/pdf/ACL_2022.pdf).

## Training Data
This model was trained on the [BBAI dataset](https://github.com/ChrisIsKing/black-box-multi-agent-integation/tree/main/data). The model will predict a score between 0 and 1 ranking the correctness of a response to a user question from a conversational agent. 


## Usage and Performance

Pre-trained models can be used like this:
```

from sentence_transformers import CrossEncoder

model = CrossEncoder('csclarke/MARS-Encoder')

scores = model.predict([('question 1', 'response 1'), ('question 1', 'response 2')])

```

The model will predict scores for the pairs `('question 1', 'response 1'')` and `('question 1', 'response 2')`.

You can use this model also without sentence_transformers and by just using Transformers ``AutoModel`` class