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all-distilroberta-v1

DistilRoBERTa fine-tuned as a sentence encoder on over 1 billion sentence pairs, producing 768-dimensional embeddings. Offers a balance between the speed of DistilBERT and the richer representations of full RoBERTa.

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Publisher (HF namespace)
sentence-transformers
Pipeline tag
sentence-similarity
Library
Sentence Transformers, Transformers
Framework tags
PyTorch, Rust (candle)
Weight formats
ONNX, safetensors, OpenVINO
License tag
apache-2.0 — read the license file in the repo before relying on it
Language tags
English (en)
Papers cited
arXiv:1904.06472, arXiv:2102.07033, arXiv:2104.08727, arXiv:1704.05179, arXiv:1810.09305
Datasets declared
s2orc, flax-sentence-embeddings/stackexchange_xml, ms_marco, gooaq, yahoo_answers_topics, code_search_net, search_qa, eli5 and 13 more on the model card
Downloads (HF counter at last fetch)
2,469,836
Likes (HF counter at last fetch)
43
Model card
https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-distilroberta-v1

Use cases

  • General semantic textual similarity
  • Semantic clustering of medium-length English text
  • Baseline comparison against larger sentence-transformer models
  • Retrieval applications where 768-dim representation quality is needed

Pros

  • 768-dim output vs 384-dim for MiniLM — higher-capacity representations
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • Trained on diverse billion-sentence dataset
  • DistilRoBERTa backbone runs faster than full RoBERTa

Cons

  • Outperformed by all-mpnet-base-v2 at similar compute cost
  • English-only
  • Newer GTE and E5 models significantly outperform on MTEB benchmarks
  • Not optimized for asymmetric retrieval tasks

Tags

sentence-transformerspytorchrustonnxsafetensorsopenvinorobertafill-maskfeature-extractionsentence-similaritytransformersendataset:s2orcdataset:flax-sentence-embeddings/stackexchange_xmldataset:ms_marcodataset:gooaqdataset:yahoo_answers_topicsdataset:code_search_netdataset:search_qadataset:eli5