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SentenceTransformers 🤗 is a Python framework for state-of-the-art sentence, text and image embeddings. 

Install the [Sentence Transformers](https://www.sbert.net/) library.
```
pip install -U sentence-transformers
```

The usage is as simple as:
```python
from sentence_transformers import SparseEncoder

# 1. Load a pretrained SparseEncoder model
model = SparseEncoder("naver/splade-cocondenser-ensembledistil")

# The sentences to encode
sentences = [
    "The weather is lovely today.",
    "It's so sunny outside!",
    "He drove to the stadium.",
]

# 2. Calculate sparse embeddings by calling model.encode()
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings.shape)
# [3, 30522] - sparse representation with vocabulary size dimensions

# 3. Calculate the embedding similarities
similarities = model.similarity(embeddings, embeddings)
print(similarities)
# tensor([[   35.629,     9.154,     0.098],
#         [    9.154,    27.478,     0.019],
#         [    0.098,     0.019,    29.553]])

# 4. Check sparsity stats
stats = SparseEncoder.sparsity(embeddings)
print(f"Sparsity: {stats['sparsity_ratio']:.2%}")
# Sparsity: 99.84%
```

Hugging Face makes it easy to collaboratively build and showcase your [Sentence Transformers](https://www.sbert.net/) models! You can collaborate with your organization, upload and showcase your own models in your profile ❤️

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To upload your SparseEncoder models to the Hugging Face Hub, log in with `huggingface-cli login` and use the [`push_to_hub`](https://sbert.net/docs/package_reference/sparse_encoder/SparseEncoder.html#sentence_transformers.sparse_encoder.SparseEncoder.push_to_hub) method within the Sentence Transformers library.
```python
from sentence_transformers import SparseEncoder

# Load or train a model
model = SparseEncoder(...)
# Push to Hub
model.push_to_hub("my_new_model")
```

Note that this repository hosts for now only examples of sparse-encoder models from the SentenceTransformers package that can be easily reproduced with the different training script examples. 

More details at [Sparse Encoder > Training Examples](https://sbert.net/docs/sparse_encoder/training/examples.html) for the examples scripts and [Sparse Encoder > Pretrained Models](https://sbert.net/docs/sparse_encoder/pretrained_models.html) for the community pre-trained models, that you can also found for some of them in the following collections.