Training and Finetuning Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers
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Hugging Face releases a new tutorial demonstrating how fine-tuning multimodal embedding models can yield performance far surpassing general-purpose large models in specific domains (like visual document retrieval), even outperforming models with 4x its parameters.
Key Points
- General-purpose multimodal models underperform on specific tasks; fine-tuning is key to unlocking their potential
- Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) is a typical use case requiring understanding of charts
- tables
- and layouts
- Using the Sentence Transformers library
- the fine-tuning process is nearly identical to training text-only models
- A fine-tuned small model (2B parameters) can outperform large models with 4x its parameters on specific tasks
Analysis
"Why You Should Pay Attention to Fine-tuning Multimodal Models
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