TharushiDinushika/modernbert-embed-base-legal-matryoshka-paralegal

ModernBERT Embed base Legal Matryoshka Paralegal

This is a sentence-transformers model finetuned from nomic-ai/modernbert-embed-base on the json dataset. It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768-dimensional dense vector space and can be used for semantic textual similarity, semantic search, paraphrase mining, text classification, clustering, and more.

Model Details

Model Description

• —Model Type: Sentence Transformer
• —Base model: nomic-ai/modernbert-embed-base <!-- at revision d556a88e332558790b210f7bdbe87da2fa94a8d8 -->
• —Maximum Sequence Length: 8192 tokens
• —Output Dimensionality: 768 dimensions
• —Similarity Function: Cosine Similarity
• —Training Dataset:
• —json
• —Language: en
• —License: apache-2.0

Model Sources

• —Documentation: Sentence Transformers Documentation
• —Repository: Sentence Transformers on GitHub
• —Hugging Face: Sentence Transformers on Hugging Face

Full Model Architecture

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 8192, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: ModernBertModel 
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 768, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_weightedmean_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_lasttoken': False, 'include_prompt': True})
  (2): Normalize()
)

Usage

Direct Usage (Sentence Transformers)

First install the Sentence Transformers library:

pip install -U sentence-transformers

Then you can load this model and run inference.

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SentenceTransformer("TharushiDinushika/modernbert-embed-base-legal-matryoshka-paralegal")
# Run inference
sentences = [
    'Under what circumstances can an agreement be considered unlawful if it does not expressly contemplate a breach?',
    'Where an agreement does not expressly contemplate the commission of a breach of any statutory provision, it can be held to be unlawful only if its per- formance would necessarily involve such a breach or if extrinsic evidence indi- cates the intention or the need to commit such a breach.',
    'Proceedings under Ordinance No. 12 of 1840 are civil in their nature. An appeal lies from an order made under section 1 of the Ordinance. The appeal should be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Procedure Code.',
]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings.shape)
# [3, 768]

# Get the similarity scores for the embeddings
similarities = model.similarity(embeddings, embeddings)
print(similarities.shape)
# [3, 3]

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Evaluation

Metrics

Information Retrieval

• —Datasets: dim_768, dim_512, dim_256, dim_128 and dim_64
• —Evaluated with <code>InformationRetrievalEvaluator</code>

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Training Details

Training Dataset

json

• —Dataset: json
• —Size: 11,787 training samples
• —Columns: <code>anchor</code> and <code>positive</code>
• —Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples: | | anchor | positive | |:--------|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | type | string | string | | details | <ul><li>min: 7 tokens</li><li>mean: 18.44 tokens</li><li>max: 51 tokens</li></ul> | <ul><li>min: 5 tokens</li><li>mean: 50.45 tokens</li><li>max: 467 tokens</li></ul> |
• —Samples: | anchor | positive | |:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | <code>Does insolvency exempt an assessee from proceedings for tax recovery?</code> | <code>"An assessee who is insolvent and has been adjudicated accordingly is not. entitled to claim that no proceedings can be taken against him for recovery of tax under section 80 (1) of the Income Tax Ordinance."""</code> | | <code>Should a person be convicted on the uncorroborated testimony of a decoy?</code> | <code>In a charge of selling arrack without a licence it would not be safe to convict on the uncorroborated testimony of a decoy.</code> | | <code>What is the scope of the Court of Appeal's supervisory jurisdiction in judicial review?</code> | <code>It is not for the Court of Appeal to decide whether the 3rd respondent was an employee or not, it was for the 1-2 respondents to decide that issue. The supervisory jurisdiction does not entitle it to usurp this responsibility and to substitute its own view for his APPLICATION for a Writ of Certiorari.</code> |
• —Loss: <code>MatryoshkaLoss</code> with these parameters:

  {
      "loss": "MultipleNegativesRankingLoss",
      "matryoshka_dims": [
          768,
          512,
          256,
          128,
          64
      ],
      "matryoshka_weights": [
          1,
          1,
          1,
          1,
          1
      ],
      "n_dims_per_step": -1
  }

Training Hyperparameters

Non-Default Hyperparameters

• —eval_strategy: epoch
• —per_device_train_batch_size: 32
• —per_device_eval_batch_size: 16
• —gradient_accumulation_steps: 16
• —learning_rate: 2e-05
• —num_train_epochs: 2
• —lr_scheduler_type: cosine
• —warmup_ratio: 0.1
• —bf16: True
• —tf32: True
• —load_best_model_at_end: True
• —optim: adamwtorchfused
• —batch_sampler: no_duplicates

All Hyperparameters

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• —overwrite_output_dir: False
• —do_predict: False
• —eval_strategy: epoch
• —prediction_loss_only: True
• —per_device_train_batch_size: 32
• —per_device_eval_batch_size: 16
• —per_gpu_train_batch_size: None
• —per_gpu_eval_batch_size: None
• —gradient_accumulation_steps: 16
• —eval_accumulation_steps: None
• —torch_empty_cache_steps: None
• —learning_rate: 2e-05
• —weight_decay: 0.0
• —adam_beta1: 0.9
• —adam_beta2: 0.999
• —adam_epsilon: 1e-08
• —max_grad_norm: 1.0
• —num_train_epochs: 2
• —max_steps: -1
• —lr_scheduler_type: cosine
• —lr_scheduler_kwargs: {}
• —warmup_ratio: 0.1
• —warmup_steps: 0
• —log_level: passive
• —log_level_replica: warning
• —log_on_each_node: True
• —logging_nan_inf_filter: True
• —save_safetensors: True
• —save_on_each_node: False
• —save_only_model: False
• —restore_callback_states_from_checkpoint: False
• —no_cuda: False
• —use_cpu: False
• —use_mps_device: False
• —seed: 42
• —data_seed: None
• —jit_mode_eval: False
• —use_ipex: False
• —bf16: True
• —fp16: False
• —fp16_opt_level: O1
• —half_precision_backend: auto
• —bf16_full_eval: False
• —fp16_full_eval: False
• —tf32: True
• —local_rank: 0
• —ddp_backend: None
• —tpu_num_cores: None
• —tpu_metrics_debug: False
• —debug: []
• —dataloader_drop_last: False
• —dataloader_num_workers: 0
• —dataloader_prefetch_factor: None
• —past_index: -1
• —disable_tqdm: False
• —remove_unused_columns: True
• —label_names: None
• —load_best_model_at_end: True
• —ignore_data_skip: False
• —fsdp: []
• —fsdp_min_num_params: 0
• —fsdp_config: {'minnumparams': 0, 'xla': False, 'xlafsdpv2': False, 'xlafsdpgrad_ckpt': False}
• —fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: None
• —accelerator_config: {'splitbatches': False, 'dispatchbatches': None, 'evenbatches': True, 'useseedablesampler': True, 'nonblocking': False, 'gradientaccumulationkwargs': None}
• —deepspeed: None
• —label_smoothing_factor: 0.0
• —optim: adamwtorchfused
• —optim_args: None
• —adafactor: False
• —group_by_length: False
• —length_column_name: length
• —ddp_find_unused_parameters: None
• —ddp_bucket_cap_mb: None
• —ddp_broadcast_buffers: False
• —dataloader_pin_memory: True
• —dataloader_persistent_workers: False
• —skip_memory_metrics: True
• —use_legacy_prediction_loop: False
• —push_to_hub: False
• —resume_from_checkpoint: None
• —hub_model_id: None
• —hub_strategy: every_save
• —hub_private_repo: None
• —hub_always_push: False
• —gradient_checkpointing: False
• —gradient_checkpointing_kwargs: None
• —include_inputs_for_metrics: False
• —include_for_metrics: []
• —eval_do_concat_batches: True
• —fp16_backend: auto
• —push_to_hub_model_id: None
• —push_to_hub_organization: None
• —mp_parameters:
• —auto_find_batch_size: False
• —full_determinism: False
• —torchdynamo: None
• —ray_scope: last
• —ddp_timeout: 1800
• —torch_compile: False
• —torch_compile_backend: None
• —torch_compile_mode: None
• —dispatch_batches: None
• —split_batches: None
• —include_tokens_per_second: False
• —include_num_input_tokens_seen: False
• —neftune_noise_alpha: None
• —optim_target_modules: None
• —batch_eval_metrics: False
• —eval_on_start: False
• —use_liger_kernel: False
• —eval_use_gather_object: False
• —average_tokens_across_devices: False
• —prompts: None
• —batch_sampler: no_duplicates
• —multi_dataset_batch_sampler: proportional

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Training Logs

• —The bold row denotes the saved checkpoint.

Framework Versions

• —Python: 3.11.12
• —Sentence Transformers: 3.4.1
• —Transformers: 4.48.2
• —PyTorch: 2.7.0+cu126
• —Accelerate: 1.6.0
• —Datasets: 3.6.0
• —Tokenizers: 0.21.1

Citation

BibTeX

Sentence Transformers

@inproceedings{reimers-2019-sentence-bert,
    title = "Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks",
    author = "Reimers, Nils and Gurevych, Iryna",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = "11",
    year = "2019",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10084",
}

MatryoshkaLoss

@misc{kusupati2024matryoshka,
    title={Matryoshka Representation Learning},
    author={Aditya Kusupati and Gantavya Bhatt and Aniket Rege and Matthew Wallingford and Aditya Sinha and Vivek Ramanujan and William Howard-Snyder and Kaifeng Chen and Sham Kakade and Prateek Jain and Ali Farhadi},
    year={2024},
    eprint={2205.13147},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.LG}
}

MultipleNegativesRankingLoss

@misc{henderson2017efficient,
    title={Efficient Natural Language Response Suggestion for Smart Reply},
    author={Matthew Henderson and Rami Al-Rfou and Brian Strope and Yun-hsuan Sung and Laszlo Lukacs and Ruiqi Guo and Sanjiv Kumar and Balint Miklos and Ray Kurzweil},
    year={2017},
    eprint={1705.00652},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

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