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ukr-paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet is an open-weight embedding model from lang-uk. ukr-paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base (BF16) weighs 1.1 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
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Summary of the lang-uk/ukr-paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | lang-uk |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-03-23 |
| VRAM | 1.1 GB 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 fine-tuned for Ukrainian language: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.
The original model used for fine-tuning is sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2. See our paper Contextual Embeddings for Ukrainian: A Large Language Model Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation for details.
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('lang-uk/ukr-paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)
Without sentence-transformers, you can use the model like this: First, you pass your input through the transformer model, then you have to apply the right pooling-operation on-top of the contextualized word embeddings.
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
import torch
#Mean Pooling - Take attention mask into account for correct averaging
def mean_pooling(model_output, attention_mask):
token_embeddings = model_output[0] #First element of model_output contains all token embeddings
input_mask_expanded = attention_mask.unsqueeze(-1).expand(token_embeddings.size()).float()
return torch.sum(token_embeddings * input_mask_expanded, 1) / torch.clamp(input_mask_expanded.sum(1), min=1e-9)
# Sentences we want sentence embeddings for
sentences = ['This is an example sentence', 'Each sentence is converted']
# Load model from HuggingFace Hub
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('lang-uk/ukr-paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('lang-uk/ukr-paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base')
# Tokenize sentences
encoded_input = tokenizer(sentences, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors='pt')
# Compute token embeddings
with torch.no_grad():
model_output = model(**encoded_input)
# Perform pooling. In this case, average pooling
sentence_embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])
print("Sentence embeddings:")
print(sentence_embeddings)
If you find this model helpful, feel free to cite our publication Contextual Embeddings for {U}krainian: A Large Language Model Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation:
@inproceedings{laba-etal-2023-contextual,
title = "Contextual Embeddings for {U}krainian: A Large Language Model Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation",
author = "Laba, Yurii and
Mudryi, Volodymyr and
Chaplynskyi, Dmytro and
Romanyshyn, Mariana and
Dobosevych, Oles",
editor = "Romanyshyn, Mariana",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP)",
month = may,
year = "2023",
address = "Dubrovnik, Croatia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.unlp-1.2",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.unlp-1.2",
pages = "11--19",
abstract = "This research proposes a novel approach to the Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) task in the Ukrainian language based on supervised fine-tuning of a pre-trained Large Language Model (LLM) on the dataset generated in an unsupervised way to obtain better contextual embeddings for words with multiple senses. The paper presents a method for generating a new dataset for WSD evaluation in the Ukrainian language based on the SUM dictionary. We developed a comprehensive framework that facilitates the generation of WSD evaluation datasets, enables the use of different prediction strategies, LLMs, and pooling strategies, and generates multiple performance reports. Our approach shows 77,9{\%} accuracy for lexical meaning prediction for homonyms.",
}
Copyright: Yurii Laba, Volodymyr Mudryi, Dmytro Chaplynskyi, Mariana Romanyshyn, Oles Dobosevych, Ukrainian Catholic University, lang-uk project, 2023
An original model used for fine-tuning was trained by sentence-transformers.
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.