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Training and Finetuning Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers v3
Sentence Transformers is a Python library for using and training embedding models for a wide range of applications, such as retrieval augmented generation, semantic search, semantic textual similarity, paraphrase mining, and more. Its v3.0 update is the largest since the project's inception, introducing a new training approach. In this blogpost, I'll show you how to use it to finetune Sentence Transformer models to improve their performance on specific tasks. You can also use this method to train new Sentence Transformer models from scratch.

Finetuning Sentence Transformers now involves several components, including datasets, loss functions, training arguments, evaluators, and the new trainer itself. I'll go through each of these components in detail and provide examples of how to use them to train effective models.