onnx-cross-encoders

Cross-Encoder for MS Marco - ONNX

ONNX versions of Sentence Transformers Cross Encoders to allow ranking without heavy dependencies.

The models were trained on the MS Marco Passage Ranking task.

The models can be used for Information Retrieval: Given a query, encode the query will all possible passages (e.g. retrieved with ElasticSearch). Then sort the passages in a decreasing order. See SBERT.net Retrieve & Re-rank for more details.

Models Available

Usage with ONNX Runtime

import onnxruntime as ort
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

model_path="ms-marco-MiniLM-L-4-v2-onnx/"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('model_path')
ort_sess = ort.InferenceSession(model_path + "ms-marco-MiniLM-L-4-v2.onnx")

features = tokenizer(['How many people live in Berlin?', 'How many people live in Berlin?'], ['Berlin has a population of 3,520,031 registered inhabitants in an area of 891.82 square kilometers.', 'New York City is famous for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.'],  padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors="np")
ort_outs = ort_sess.run(None, features)
print(ort_outs)

Performance

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