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Dan Ofer

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Bioinformatics, Neurobiology, AutoML, Feature engineering, Proteins, NLP

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repliedto tomaarsen's post about 7 hours ago
🤖 I've just published Sentence Transformers v5.5.0, headlined by a new train-sentence-transformers Agent Skill that lets your AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, ...) train and finetune embedding, reranker, and sparse encoder models for you. Plus training losses & fixes. Details: The skill bundles curated guidance for the whole training workflow across all three model types: base model selection, loss and evaluator choice, hard-negative mining, distillation, LoRA, Matryoshka, multilingual training, static embeddings, etc. It also ships production-ready training template scripts the agent can adapt. Install it with `hf skills add train-sentence-transformers`, then just describe what you want, e.g. "finetune a reranker on my (question, answer) pairs, mine hard negatives, and push it to the Hub". On the loss side: EmbedDistillLoss is a new embedding-level distillation loss for SentenceTransformer. Instead of distilling teacher scores like MarginMSELoss, it aligns the student's embeddings directly with pre-computed teacher embeddings, wtih an optional learnable projection for when the student and teacher dimensions differ. Second, ADRMSELoss is a new listwise learning-to-rank loss for CrossEncoder from the Rank-DistilLLM paper, aimed at the LLM-distillation reranking setting. encode() and predict() also gained a per-call processing_kwargs override, so you can change processor settings like max_length, a vision-language model's image resolution, or a video's fps, for a single call without rebuilding the model. The Agent Skill is the part of this release I'm most keen for people to try. Curious to hear how it works for you. I've been using it myself a lot to quickly set up some training runs that immediately use a bunch of best practices. > pip install sentence-transformers==5.5.0 > hf skills add train-sentence-transformers The full release notes: https://github.com/huggingface/sentence-transformers/releases/tag/v5.5.0
liked a dataset about 9 hours ago
ConvergeBio/uniclust30
liked a dataset about 9 hours ago
ConvergeBio/uniref90
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