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Similarity Learning lacks a framework. So we built one

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Re: Similarity Learning lacks a framework. So we built one

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Is it somehow connected to Qdrant similarity search engine? Is there a default integration for it?

The idea is to fine-tune model, which can be used to produce embeddings required for Qdrant. Our design approach is to make things as modular as possible, so you can use framework and engine independently. But we are working on integrating components as well

Re: Similarity Learning lacks a framework. So we built one

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I realise this is an overly-broad question, but any insight into what's the state-of-art in Similarity Learning for article-type text? More specifically, I'm interested in deriving distances between writing style, arguing style, etc.

It is definitely possible to do, if you have a proper training set. You would need to somehow give model a signal, that you are interesting in e.g. arguing style specifically, and not the topic of the text.

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Very cool. Can you comment on how this compares with tensorflow similarity? https://blog.tensorflow.org/2021/09/introducing-tensorflow-s...

I'm one of the authors of Quaterion and also a contributor of TF Similarity. First of all, Quaterion is based on PyTorch. From a more technical perspective, TF Similarity is currently stronger on the self-supervised methods for images and lacks some more generic losses while Quaterion puts a bigger emphasis on finetuning models from any domain efficiently for practical purposes. For example, Quaterion has a intermediate caching mechanism that accelerates finetuning considerably. Overall, They both do a good job for their own use cases.
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