New Breakthroughs in Text Embedding 🚀!

Text embeddings play pivotal roles in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as modern information retrieval, question answering, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). From classics like GloVe and BERT to the latest state-of-the-art (SOTA) models, these embeddings encode semantic information, proving indispensable in various applications.

Text Embedding📽️

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Concretely,

Text embeddings are vector representations of natural language that encode its semantic information. They are widely used in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, such as information retrieval (IR), question answering, semantic textual similarity, bitext mining, item recommendation, etc.

From the renowned BERT to sophisticated multi-stage trained models like E5 and BGE, the objective is to capture the rich contextual details of natural language, balancing between training cost and efficiency. However, challenges arise when implementing complex multi-stage training with curated data, encompassing concerns related to quantity, cost, and the diversity of tasks.