Add Model2Vec support

[Pringled]

Hi,

I think https://github.com/MinishLab/model2vec might be a good fit for Embetter. It's a static subword embedder that outperforms both GloVE (300d) and BPEmb (50k, 300d) while being much smaller and faster (results are in the repo).

It can be used like this:

from model2vec import StaticModel

# Load a model from the HuggingFace hub (in this case the M2V_base_output model)
model_name = "minishlab/M2V_base_output"
model = StaticModel.from_pretrained(model_name)

# Make embeddings
embeddings = model.encode(["It's dangerous to go alone!", "It's a secret to everybody."])

[koaning]

I would like to benchmark this myself first, but I can agree that the idea that is mentioned here might be nice for a livestream on the probabl channel. I could explore it there and if it works out I can always choose to add it here.

[Pringled]

Sounds good! Happy to answer any questions about the library.

[koaning]

@Pringled I guess this is the simplest integration path?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/minish-lab_big-news-model2vec-is-now-officially-integrated-activity-7250399345320103936-JrqY?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

[Pringled]

@koaning Either option (via Sentence Transformers or directly with Model2Vec) should be easy to integrate. I think using Model2Vec directly is slightly more flexible since you can call encode to get a mean output and encode_as_sequence to get a sequence output (if you want to support multiple agg methods like in other supported embedders), and it requires a few less lines of code, e.g.:

from model2vec import StaticModel

model = StaticModel.from_pretrained("minishlab/M2V_base_output")
embeddings = model.encode(["It's dangerous to go alone!", "It's a secret to everybody."])

vs

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
from sentence_transformers.models import StaticEmbedding

static_embedding = StaticEmbedding.from_model2vec("minishlab/M2V_multilingual_output")
model = SentenceTransformer(modules=[static_embedding])
embeddings = model.encode(["It's dangerous to go alone!", "It's a secret to everybody."])

If you want to use any functionality from Sentence Transformers though then that's definitely the way to go.

[koaning]

I will explore both during the probabl livestream next week. I will then decide afterwards which approach is best. I am also annotating some datasets now just so that I can have a benchmark.

I will also make another comparison; can scikit-learn pipelines with these embeddings beat an LLM?

[Pringled]

Cool! Very curious about the results. I'll try to tune in for the livestream.

[koaning]

I will add the livestream link after the current one, which will also be a fun one by the way.

[Pringled]

Great, thanks for the link, I'll check it out!

[koaning]

Aaaand it will go live this Friday!

https://www.youtube.com/live/Ymn5RVaKQA0

[koaning]

Also @Pringled any discords that you hang out in? If you have any feedback on cool features to demonstrate I am all ears but I may also have some questions as I dive into this rabbit hole.

[koaning]

Ah! Yeah, if you are in a Discord that would be cool because I may have found a way to make this a bunch lighter.

[Pringled]

Heya @koaning, very cool! I created a channel in our discord server that we can use here: https://discord.gg/kvGKzc8t. Alternatively, my discord name is "pringled." (including the dot) so you can also PM me directly if that's easier.