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---

language: en

license: apache-2.0

library_name: sentence-transformers


tags:


- sentence-transformers


- feature-extraction


- sentence-similarity


pipeline_tag: sentence-similarity

---



# sentence-transformers/sentence-t5-xl



This is a [sentence-transformers](https://www.SBERT.net) model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768 dimensional dense vector space. The model works well for sentence similarity tasks, but doesn't perform that well for semantic search tasks.



This model was converted from the Tensorflow model [st5-3b-1](https://tfhub.dev/google/sentence-t5/st5-3b/1) to PyTorch. When using this model, have a look at the publication: [Sentence-T5: Scalable sentence encoders from pre-trained text-to-text models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08877). The tfhub model and this PyTorch model can produce slightly different embeddings, however, when run on the same benchmarks, they produce identical results.



The model uses only the encoder from a T5-3B model. The weights are stored in FP16.  





## Usage (Sentence-Transformers)



Using this model becomes easy when you have [sentence-transformers](https://www.SBERT.net) installed:



```


pip install -U sentence-transformers


```



Then you can use the model like this:



```python


from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer


sentences = ["This is an example sentence", "Each sentence is converted"]





model = SentenceTransformer('sentence-transformers/sentence-t5-xl')


embeddings = model.encode(sentences)


print(embeddings)


```



The model requires sentence-transformers version 2.2.0 or newer.



## Evaluation Results



For an automated evaluation of this model, see the *Sentence Embeddings Benchmark*: [https://seb.sbert.net](https://seb.sbert.net?model_name=sentence-transformers/sentence-t5-xl)







## Citing & Authors



If you find this model helpful, please cite the respective publication:

[Sentence-T5: Scalable sentence encoders from pre-trained text-to-text models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08877)