alt.freeweights.embed / allenai-specter
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allenai-specter

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 2c68eecSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Sentence similarity model with 110M parameters. Onnx and openvino and safetensors weights, 4.28 GB in all. Published by sentence-transformers under Apache-2.0.

110M params4.28GBallenai-specteronnx openvino safetensorspermissive
FactsParams110MSize4.28 GBFormatsonnx, openvino, safetensorsTasksentence similarityLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
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# manifest sha256 0300e3abe29a… · 4.28 GB · 27 files
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Size
4.28 GB
Weights
440 MB (safetensors)
Parameters
110M
Formats
onnx, openvino, safetensors
Task
sentence similarity
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
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27, each with a sha256
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sentence-transformers
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2026-11-15
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allenai-specter#

This model is a conversion of the AllenAI SPECTER model to sentence-transformers. It can be used to map the titles & abstracts of scientific publications to a vector space such that similar papers are close.

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('sentence-transformers/allenai-specter')
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


def cls_pooling(model_output, attention_mask):
    return model_output[0][:,0]


# 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('sentence-transformers/allenai-specter')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('sentence-transformers/allenai-specter')

# 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, max pooling.
sentence_embeddings = cls_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])

print("Sentence embeddings:")
print(sentence_embeddings)

Full Model Architecture#

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 512, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: BertModel 
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 768, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': True, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False})
)

Citing & Authors#

See AllenAI SPECTER

Files

27 files · 4.28 GBWeights 440 MB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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.gitattributes744 Bf888dc7c230287cd68af7034aa9fc2e2d6663fb7b3e70faa153caf93877914c3
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README.md2.57 KB3525d7357414d708b3c61d0776fa7e05c490c42963f77db83eaa57f6227fdf05
config.json622 B6aaee4ab22da89500be7c8eaac4ed0efa842dc304c192510628f2975d20b043c
config_sentence_transformers.json122 Bb8c64b5cece00d8424b4896ea75b512b6008576088497609dfeb6bd63e6d36b8
model.safetensors440 MBc9e4419962bfee435711c47e869fbb46a97b2bff6eb94950e407da549c993cf4
modules.json229 B8f4b264b80206c830bebbdcae377e137925650a433b689343a63bdc9b3145460
onnx/model.onnx438 MB195f2f8f79fb4ad91927af9a6c9bc7d1405d5f0de094e63612b5e201fcd610a5
onnx/model_O1.onnx438 MBc80ac03e183ebdda2e68baf53fe701dae192a18b20104e68349d4d46ae56d988
onnx/model_O2.onnx438 MB4754f7303af30b49c04edc2925fc6591d7ddf148306a69457aa90be5497d1e34
onnx/model_O3.onnx438 MB0dd31bdd1904dd121d405278fa42bae0ac165c3dde1006b99385292db3b10490
onnx/model_O4.onnx219 MB6fa7fb014448f782dd18da370cdb3bf5a7129d7e58726f9a2357e71adbc79893
onnx/model_qint8_arm64.onnx111 MB7cf56beff29ccfa8e9392c16fab87f964f63259722db23998202b231bbb1c78c
onnx/model_qint8_avx512.onnx111 MB7cf56beff29ccfa8e9392c16fab87f964f63259722db23998202b231bbb1c78c
onnx/model_qint8_avx512_vnni.onnx111 MB7cf56beff29ccfa8e9392c16fab87f964f63259722db23998202b231bbb1c78c
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openvino/openvino_model.bin437 MBc47c4917736b0da0c7da8b5fe0ae51be7f86445b19925981f4dff41f4490ee40
openvino/openvino_model.xml398 KB0154efa7161554ccf5f6233b2b02ee9181bcc48a0710a16ffcea2c7c4eefcb66
openvino/openvino_model_qint8_quantized.bin110 MBdffdb6b424b674f755b90a13117adaddb7ef4fe927cdde26ca46acf21613b92d
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pytorch_model.bin440 MBe5bc6960694f086334de21eae028f3b38439d3581a3f7bf87f71c91311961d34
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$ fw get sentence-transformers/allenai-specter
# manifest sha256 0300e3abe29a… · 4.28 GB · 27 files
$ fw verify ./allenai-specter sentence-transformers/allenai-specter
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/sentence-transformers/allenai-specter.json --dir ./allenai-specter $ python3 fw.py verify ./allenai-specter ./sentence-transformers__allenai-specter.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download sentence-transformers/allenai-specter --revision 2c68eeca61259b2dd70c3f2628219f925df7031a --local-dir ./allenai-specter
transformersLoad the weights in Python.
import os os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT"] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com" from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("sentence-transformers/allenai-specter", revision="2c68eeca61259b2dd70c3f2628219f925df7031a") model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("sentence-transformers/allenai-specter", revision="2c68eeca61259b2dd70c3f2628219f925df7031a", device_map="auto")
sentence-transformersEmbed text with sentence-transformers.
import os os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT"] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com" from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer model = SentenceTransformer("sentence-transformers/allenai-specter", revision="2c68eeca61259b2dd70c3f2628219f925df7031a") vectors = model.encode(["Hello"])

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From: sentence-transformers <huggingface.co/sentence-transformers>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.embedSubject: allenai-specterDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 2c68eecSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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