Model reference · open weights
WikiMedical_sent_biobert is an open-weight embedding model from nuvocare. WikiMedical_sent_biobert (FP32) weighs 217 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
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Summary of the nuvocare/WikiMedical_sent_biobert model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | nuvocare |
|---|---|
| Released | 2023-10-18 |
| Parameters | 108M |
| VRAM | 217 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.
WikiMedical_sent_bert is based on the https://huggingface.co/dmis-lab/biobert-base-cased-v1.2 backbone and has been trained on the WikiMedical_sentence_similarity dataset.
The model is able to predict whether two texts are related to the same wikipedia page, with only medical topic.
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('nuvocare/WikiMedical_sent_biobert')
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('WikiMedical_sent_biobert')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('WikiMedical_sent_biobert')
# 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, mean pooling.
sentence_embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])
print("Sentence embeddings:")
print(sentence_embeddings)
The model is evaluated on the test set of WikiMedical_sentence_similarity. It achieves a :
For an automated evaluation of this model, see the Sentence Embeddings Benchmark: https://seb.sbert.net
The model was trained with the parameters:
DataLoader:
torch.utils.data.dataloader.DataLoader of length 3170 with parameters:
{'batch_size': 16, 'sampler': 'torch.utils.data.sampler.RandomSampler', 'batch_sampler': 'torch.utils.data.sampler.BatchSampler'}
Loss:
sentence_transformers.losses.CosineSimilarityLoss.CosineSimilarityLoss
Parameters of the fit()-Method:
{
"epochs": 2,
"evaluation_steps": 2000,
"evaluator": "sentence_transformers.evaluation.EmbeddingSimilarityEvaluator.EmbeddingSimilarityEvaluator",
"max_grad_norm": 1,
"optimizer_class": "",
"optimizer_params": {
"lr": 2e-05
},
"scheduler": "WarmupLinear",
"steps_per_epoch": null,
"warmup_steps": 300,
"weight_decay": 0.01
}
SentenceTransformer(
(0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 256, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: BertModel
(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})
)
Samuel Chaineau
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.