Model reference · open weights
st-codesearch-distilroberta is an open-weight embedding model from flax-sentence-embeddings. st-codesearch-distilroberta-base (BF16) weighs 329 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
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Summary of the flax-sentence-embeddings/st-codesearch-distilroberta-base model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | flax-sentence-embeddings |
|---|---|
| Released | 2022-03-02 |
| VRAM | 329 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Runs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From the model card
This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.
It was trained on the code_search_net dataset and can be used to search program code given text.
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer, util
#This list the defines the different programm codes
code = ["""def sort_list(x):
return sorted(x)""",
"""def count_above_threshold(elements, threshold=0):
counter = 0
for e in elements:
if e > threshold:
counter += 1
return counter""",
"""def find_min_max(elements):
min_ele = 99999
max_ele = -99999
for e in elements:
if e < min_ele:
min_ele = e
if e > max_ele:
max_ele = e
return min_ele, max_ele"""]
model = SentenceTransformer("flax-sentence-embeddings/st-codesearch-distilroberta-base")
# Encode our code into the vector space
code_emb = model.encode(code, convert_to_tensor=True)
# Interactive demo: Enter queries, and the method returns the best function from the
# 3 functions we defined
while True:
query = input("Query: ")
query_emb = model.encode(query, convert_to_tensor=True)
hits = util.semantic_search(query_emb, code_emb)[0]
top_hit = hits[0]
print("Cossim: {:.2f}".format(top_hit['score']))
print(code[top_hit['corpus_id']])
print("\n\n")
Using this model becomes easy when you have sentence-transformers installed:
pip install -U sentence-transformers
Then you can use the model like this:
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
sentences = ["This is an example sentence", "Each sentence is converted"]
model = SentenceTransformer('flax-sentence-embeddings/st-codesearch-distilroberta-base')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)
The model was trained with a DistilRoBERTa-base model for 10k training steps on the codesearch dataset with batch_size 256 and MultipleNegativesRankingLoss.
It is some preliminary model. It was neither tested nor was the trained quite sophisticated
The model was trained with the parameters:
DataLoader:
MultiDatasetDataLoader.MultiDatasetDataLoader of length 5371 with parameters:
{'batch_size': 256}
Loss:
sentence_transformers.losses.MultipleNegativesRankingLoss.MultipleNegativesRankingLoss with parameters:
{'scale': 20, 'similarity_fct': 'dot_score'}
Parameters of the fit()-Method:
{
"callback": null,
"epochs": 1,
"evaluation_steps": 0,
"evaluator": "NoneType",
"max_grad_norm": 1,
"optimizer_class": "",
"optimizer_params": {
"lr": 2e-05
},
"scheduler": "warmupconstant",
"steps_per_epoch": 10000,
"warmup_steps": 500,
"weight_decay": 0.01
}
SentenceTransformer(
(0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 128, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: RobertaModel
(1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 768, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False})
(2): Normalize()
)
@misc{codesearch-embeddings,
author = {Flax Sentence Embeddings Team},
title = {CodeSearch: Sentence Embeddings},
year = {2021},
url = {https://huggingface.co/flax-sentence-embeddings/st-codesearch-distilroberta-base},
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.