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paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 68ed8e6Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Sentence similarity model with 67M parameters. Onnx and openvino and safetensors weights, 2.60 GB in all. Published by sentence-transformers under Apache-2.0.

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Size
2.60 GB
Weights
268 MB (safetensors)
Parameters
67M
Formats
onnx, openvino, safetensors
Task
sentence similarity
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
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sentence-transformers
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sentence-transformers/paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2#

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.

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/paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2')
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('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2')
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('sentence-transformers/paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2')

# 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 = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])

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

Full Model Architecture#

SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 128, '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#

This model was trained by sentence-transformers.

If you find this model helpful, feel free to cite our publication Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks:

@inproceedings{reimers-2019-sentence-bert,
    title = "Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks",
    author = "Reimers, Nils and Gurevych, Iryna",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = "11",
    year = "2019",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10084",
}

Files

27 files · 2.60 GBWeights 268 MB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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config.json631 B6c55a6b6a25af856492c47205e3a5119a7372acf7b5e7f6b98c5701086963f7e
config_sentence_transformers.json122 Bb8c64b5cece00d8424b4896ea75b512b6008576088497609dfeb6bd63e6d36b8
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onnx/model_qint8_arm64.onnx67.0 MB840672457f56c913856a7a9ed2db4629ac76d3213f8d0b8342fbe9fa582c1e84
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$ fw get sentence-transformers/paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2
# manifest sha256 f20a59fd73c3… · 2.60 GB · 27 files
$ fw verify ./paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2 sentence-transformers/paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2
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$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/sentence-transformers/paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2.json --dir ./paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2 $ python3 fw.py verify ./paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2 ./sentence-transformers__paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download sentence-transformers/paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2 --revision 68ed8e61dc7009b863c86c2ea2f748e864cd6b34 --local-dir ./paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2
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/paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2", revision="68ed8e61dc7009b863c86c2ea2f748e864cd6b34") model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("sentence-transformers/paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2", revision="68ed8e61dc7009b863c86c2ea2f748e864cd6b34", 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/paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2", revision="68ed8e61dc7009b863c86c2ea2f748e864cd6b34") vectors = model.encode(["Hello"])

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From: sentence-transformers <huggingface.co/sentence-transformers>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.embedSubject: paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 68ed8e6Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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