Minilm L6 Danish Encoder

🚀 MiniLM-L6-danish-encoder

This is a lightweight sentence-transformers model for Danish NLP, which maps sentences and paragraphs to a 384 - dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks such as clustering or semantic search.

⚠️ Important Note

A new version is available, trained on more data and otherwise identical KennethTM/MiniLM-L6-danish-encoder-v2

🚀 Quick Start

This is a lightweight (~22 M parameters) sentence-transformers model for Danish NLP. It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 384 - dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search. The maximum sequence length is 512 tokens.

The model was not pre - trained from scratch but adapted from the English version of sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 with a Danish tokenizer. It was trained on ELI5 and SQUAD data machine - translated from English to Danish.

📦 Installation

Using this model becomes easy when you have sentence-transformers installed:

pip install -U sentence-transformers

💻 Usage Examples

Basic Usage

If you have sentence-transformers installed, you can use the model like this:

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
sentences = ["Kører der cykler på vejen?", "En panda løber på vejen.", "En mand kører hurtigt forbi på cykel."]

model = SentenceTransformer('KennethTM/MiniLM-L6-danish-encoder')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Advanced Usage

Without sentence-transformers, you can use the model like this: First, you pass your input through the transformer model, then you have to apply the right pooling - operation on - top of the contextualized word embeddings.

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F

#Mean Pooling - Take attention mask into account for correct averaging
def mean_pooling(model_output, attention_mask):
    token_embeddings = model_output[0] #First element of model_output contains all token embeddings
    input_mask_expanded = attention_mask.unsqueeze(-1).expand(token_embeddings.size()).float()
    return torch.sum(token_embeddings * input_mask_expanded, 1) / torch.clamp(input_mask_expanded.sum(1), min=1e-9)

# Sentences we want sentence embeddings for
sentences = ["Kører der cykler på vejen?", "En panda løber på vejen.", "En mand kører hurtigt forbi på cykel."]

# Load model from HuggingFace Hub
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('KennethTM/MiniLM-L6-danish-encoder')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('KennethTM/MiniLM-L6-danish-encoder')

# Tokenize sentences
encoded_input = tokenizer(sentences, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt')

# Compute token embeddings
with torch.no_grad():
    model_output = model(**encoded_input)

# Perform pooling
sentence_embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])

# Normalize embeddings
sentence_embeddings = F.normalize(sentence_embeddings, p=2, dim=1)

print("Sentence embeddings:")
print(sentence_embeddings)

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.