Sentence Embedding Benchmark

Installation

Prerequisites:

• Python 3.9 or above
• PiP 23.3 or above

Steps:

1. Because we are downloading and using a lot of data from huggingface, you need to create a .env file and add you huggingface token, otherwise downloading the required models and datasets might fail.

   HF_TOKEN="<your_huggingface_token>"

2. To run the benchmark, select the task you want to run, e.g. clustering_benchmarks.ipynb and run all cells.
3. Display the results and create all associated plots by running the plot notebook, e.g. clustering_plots.ipynb. The available task and plots are:

   Task	Plot
   clustering_benchmarks.ipynb	clustering_plots.ipynb
   clustering_benchmarks_cutoff.ipynb	clustering_plots_cutoff.ipynb
   retrieval_benchmark_cqa.ipynb	retrieval_plots.ipynb
   retrieval_benchmark_nqa_chunking.ipynb	retrieval_plots.ipynb
   retrieval_benchmark_nqa_seq.ipynb	retrieval_plots.ipynb
   sts_benchmarks.ipynb	sts_plots.ipynb