Post
2020
🎉SetFit v1.1.0 is out! Training efficient classifiers on CPU or GPU now uses the Sentence Transformers Trainer, and we resolved a lot of issues caused by updates of third-party libraries (like Transformers). Details:
Training a SetFit classifier model consists of 2 phases:
1. Finetuning a Sentence Transformer embedding model
2. Training a Classifier to map embeddings -> classes
🔌The first phase now uses the SentenceTransformerTrainer that was introduced in the Sentence Transformers v3 update. This brings some immediate upsides like MultiGPU support, without any (intended) breaking changes.
➡️ Beyond that, we softly deprecated the "evaluation_strategy" argument in favor of "eval_strategy" (following a Transformers deprecation), and deprecated Python 3.7. In return, we add official support for Python 3.11 and 3.12.
✨ There's some more minor changes too, like max_steps and eval_max_steps now being a hard limit instead of an approximate one, training/validation losses now logging nicely in Notebooks, and the "device" parameter no longer being ignored in some situations.
Check out the full release notes here: https://github.com/huggingface/setfit/releases/tag/v1.1.0
Or read the documentation: https://huggingface.co/docs/setfit
Or check out the public SetFit models for inspiration: https://huggingface.co/models?library=setfit&sort=created
P.s. the model in the code snippet trained in 1 minute and it can classify ~6000 sentences per second on my GPU.
Training a SetFit classifier model consists of 2 phases:
1. Finetuning a Sentence Transformer embedding model
2. Training a Classifier to map embeddings -> classes
🔌The first phase now uses the SentenceTransformerTrainer that was introduced in the Sentence Transformers v3 update. This brings some immediate upsides like MultiGPU support, without any (intended) breaking changes.
➡️ Beyond that, we softly deprecated the "evaluation_strategy" argument in favor of "eval_strategy" (following a Transformers deprecation), and deprecated Python 3.7. In return, we add official support for Python 3.11 and 3.12.
✨ There's some more minor changes too, like max_steps and eval_max_steps now being a hard limit instead of an approximate one, training/validation losses now logging nicely in Notebooks, and the "device" parameter no longer being ignored in some situations.
Check out the full release notes here: https://github.com/huggingface/setfit/releases/tag/v1.1.0
Or read the documentation: https://huggingface.co/docs/setfit
Or check out the public SetFit models for inspiration: https://huggingface.co/models?library=setfit&sort=created
P.s. the model in the code snippet trained in 1 minute and it can classify ~6000 sentences per second on my GPU.