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sentence-transformers

State-of-the-Art Embeddings, Retrieval, and Reranking

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Generate and use advanced text representations to improve search and similarity tasks with a variety of pre-trained models.

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pip install -U sentence-transformers

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State-of-the-Art Embeddings, Retrieval, and Reranking

sentence-transformers has 19k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 2.9k times. sentence-transformers is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2019. sentence-transformers is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

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State-of-the-Art Embeddings, Retrieval, and Reranking

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sentence-transformers is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

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Yes. sentence-transformers is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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sentence-transformers is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

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sentence-transformers is written mainly in Python.

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