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WikiMedical_sent_biobert

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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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  • WikiMedical_sent_biobert is a sentence-transformers model developed by nuvocare that maps sentences to a 768-dimensional vector space for tasks like clustering and semantic search.
  • It is based on the biobert-base-cased-v1.2 backbone and was trained on the WikiMedical_sentence_similarity dataset to predict whether two texts relate to the same medical Wikipedia page.
  • The model has 108M parameters and a context length of 512 tokens.

Summary of the nuvocare/WikiMedical_sent_biobert model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bynuvocare
Released2023-10-18
Parameters108M
VRAM217 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for WikiMedical_sent_biobert (FP32)

217 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 nuvocare says about WikiMedical_sent_biobert

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.

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.

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('nuvocare/WikiMedical_sent_biobert')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Usage (HuggingFace Transformers)

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)

Evaluation Results

The model is evaluated on the test set of WikiMedical_sentence_similarity. It achieves a :

  • cosine spearman score of 0.87
  • cosine pearson score of 0.95

For an automated evaluation of this model, see the Sentence Embeddings Benchmark: https://seb.sbert.net

Training

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
}

Full Model Architecture

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})
)

Citing & Authors

Samuel Chaineau

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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