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How to handle I/O Memory issues with HuggingFace in Kaggle (SafeTensorError)?

I got the above error when I was trying to get a model from HuggingFace. I was using the AutoModelForCasualLM to get the model in question (this is a method directly from the transformers package). ...

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Best approach to generate embeddings for 10K+ documents in Spring Boot + OpenSearch (performance issue)

I am building a search system using Spring Boot and OpenSearch. Current setup: Using OpenSearch ingest pipeline with text_embedding processor Each ZIP file contains 10K+ documents Bulk indexing is ...

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Implementing Deterministic Entity Resolution in a Multi-Agent RAG for Investigative Archiving

Body: I am architecting a Forensic Data Audit system (Multi-Agent RAG) to analyze fragmented, large-scale archives. A critical bottleneck is maintaining Entity Resolution (ER) across millions of ...

Alex Salgado

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How to convert the MLP in MoE to 4 bit quantization?

I'm doing some research about the information encoding with LLMs and need to find a way to quantize the weights of the MLP layers(MoE) to 4 bits and even customized mixed precision. Consider from ...

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SentenceTransformer can't load all-MiniLM-L6-v2 – missing config_sentence_transformers.json

I'm trying to load the sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model but it fails with a missing file error. Code from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer model = SentenceTransformer(&...

Naman Bhola

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Removing strange/special characters from outputs llama 3.1 model

Background: I'm using Hugging Face's transformers package and Llama 3.1 8B (Instruct). Problem: I am generating responses to a prompt one word at a time in the following way (note that I choose over ...

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TL;DR Use this instead of rolling out your own detokenizer. tokenizer.batch_decode(input_ids) In Long The official Llama 3.1 has some approval process that might take some time, so this answer will ...

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Error while converting google flan T5 model to onnx

I am looking to convert flan-T5 model downloaded from Hugging face into onnx format and make inference with the same. My input data is the symptoms of disease and expected output is the Disease name ...

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answered May 15, 2024 at 15:44

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Use https://huggingface.co/datasets/bakks/flan-t5-onnx instead. And to convert the google/flan-t5, see https://huggingface.co/datasets/bakks/flan-t5-onnx/blob/main/exportt5.py from pathlib import ...

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Why did my fine-tuning T5-Base Model for a sequence-to-sequence task has short incomplete generation?

I am trying to fine-tune a t5-base model for creating appropriate question against a compliance item. Compliance iteams are paragraph of texts and my question are in the past format of them. I have ...

KLaz

answered May 6, 2025 at 10:01

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Because of: labels = tokenizer(targets, max_length=32, padding="max_length", truncation=True) Most probably your model has learnt to just output/generate outputs that are ~32 tokens. Try: ...

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How to save the LLM2Vec model as a HuggingFace PreTrainedModel object?

Typically, we should be able to save a merged base + PEFT model, like this: import torch from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel, AutoConfig from peft import PeftModel # Loading base MNTP ...

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answered Apr 12, 2024 at 18:33

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Wrapping the LLM2Vec object around like in https://stackoverflow.com/a/74109727/610569 We can try this: import torch.nn as nn from transformers import PreTrainedModel, PretrainedConfig from ...

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Mistral model generates the same embeddings for different input texts

I am using pre-trained LLM to generate a representative embedding for an input text. But it is wired that the output embeddings are all the same regardless of different input texts. The codes: from ...

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answered Apr 11, 2024 at 12:13

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You're not slicing it the dimensions right at outputs.last_hidden_state[0, 0, :].numpy() Q: What is the 0th token in all inputs? A: Beginning of sentence token (BOS) Q: So that's the "embeddings&...

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How does the Google "Did you mean?" Algorithm work? [closed]

I've been developing an internal website for a portfolio management tool. There is a lot of text data, company names etc. I've been really impressed with some search engines ability to very quickly ...

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spaCy: Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm' on windows 10 and Python 3.5.3 :: Anaconda custom (64-bit)

What is the difference between spacy.load('en_core_web_sm') and spacy.load('en')? This link explains different model sizes. But I am still not clear how spacy.load('en_core_web_sm') and spacy.load('en'...

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What is "entropy and information gain"? [closed]

I am reading this book (NLTK) and it is confusing. Entropy is defined as: Entropy is the sum of the probability of each label times the log probability of that same label How can I apply entropy ...

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How to compute the similarity between two text documents?

I want to take two documents and determine how similar they are. Any programming language if fine but I prefer Python.

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googletrans stopped working with error 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

I was trying googletrans and it was working quite well. Since this morning I started getting below error. I went through multiple posts from stackoverflow and other sites and found probably my ip is ...

Amir Charkhi

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