
train-sentence-transformers
Officialhuggingface/skills
10,656Added Jun 5, 2026
sentence-transformersfine-tuningembeddingsbi-encodercross-encodersparse-retrievalnlphugging-face
Summary
Train or fine-tune sentence-transformers models across SentenceTransformer (bi-encoder; dense or static embedding model; for retrieval, similarity, clustering, classification, paraphrase mining, dedup, multimodal), CrossEncoder (reranker; pair scoring for two-stage retrieval / pair classification), and SparseEncoder (SPLADE, sparse embedding model; for learned-sparse retrieval). Covers loss selection, hard-negative mining, evaluators, distillation, LoRA, Matryoshka, and Hugging Face Hub publishing. Use for any sentence-transformers training task.