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st-codesearch-distilroberta

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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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  • st-codesearch-distilroberta is a sentence-transformers model that maps text to a 768-dimensional vector space for semantic search and clustering.
  • It was trained on the code_search_net dataset to search program code given text queries.
  • The model uses a DistilRoBERTa-base architecture with a context length of 514 tokens.

Summary of the flax-sentence-embeddings/st-codesearch-distilroberta-base model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byflax-sentence-embeddings
Released2022-03-02
VRAM329 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for st-codesearch-distilroberta-base (BF16)

329 MBweights, file size
1.1 GBruntime overhead
CardRunsMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What flax-sentence-embeddings says about st-codesearch-distilroberta

Read 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.

Usage:

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")

Usage (Sentence-Transformers)

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)

Training

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
}

Full Model Architecture

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()
)

Citing & Authors

@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.

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