diff --git a/model_cards/gsarti/scibert-nli/README.md b/model_cards/gsarti/scibert-nli/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1388fea8 --- /dev/null +++ b/model_cards/gsarti/scibert-nli/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +# SciBERT-NLI + +This is the model [SciBERT](https://github.com/allenai/scibert) [1] fine-tuned on the [SNLI](https://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/snli/) and the [MultiNLI](https://www.nyu.edu/projects/bowman/multinli/) datasets using the [`sentence-transformers` library](https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/) to produce universal sentence embeddings [2]. + +The model uses the original `scivocab` wordpiece vocabulary and was trained using the **average pooling strategy** and a **softmax loss**. + +**Base model**: `allenai/scibert-scivocab-cased` from HuggingFace AutoModel + +**Parameters**: + +| Parameter | Value | +|----------------|-------| +| Batch size | 64 | +| Training steps | 20000 | +| Warmup steps | 1450 | + +**Performances**: The performance was evaluated on the test portion of the [STS dataset](http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/stswiki/index.php/STSbenchmark) using Spearman rank correlation and compared to the performances of a general BERT base model obtained with the same procedure to verify their similarity. + + +| Model | Score | +|-----------------------------|-------------| +| `scibert-nli` (ours) | 74.50 | +| `bert-base-nli-mean-tokens` | 77.12 | + + +An example usage for similarity-based scientific paper retrieval is provided in the [Covid Papers Browser](https://github.com/gsarti/covid-papers-browser) repository. + +**References:** + +[1] I. Beltagy et al, [SciBERT: A Pretrained Language Model for Scientific Text](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1371/) + +[2] A. Conneau et al., [Supervised Learning of Universal Sentence Representations from Natural Language Inference Data](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D17-1070/)