NeuML/pubmedbert-base-embeddings-500K

PubMedBERT Embeddings 500K

This is a pruned version of PubMedBERT Embeddings 2M. It prunes the vocabulary to take the top 25% most frequently used tokens.

See Extremely Small BERT Models from Mixed-Vocabulary Training for background on pruning vocabularies to build smaller models.

Usage (txtai)

This model can be used to build embeddings databases with txtai for semantic search and/or as a knowledge source for retrieval augmented generation (RAG).

import txtai

# Create embeddings
embeddings = txtai.Embeddings(
  path="neuml/pubmedbert-base-embeddings-500K",
  content=True,
)
embeddings.index(documents())

# Run a query
embeddings.search("query to run")

Usage (Sentence-Transformers)

Alternatively, the model can be loaded with sentence-transformers.

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
from sentence_transformers.models import StaticEmbedding

# Initialize a StaticEmbedding module
static = StaticEmbedding.from_model2vec("neuml/pubmedbert-base-embeddings-500K")
model = SentenceTransformer(modules=[static])

sentences = ["This is an example sentence", "Each sentence is converted"]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Usage (Model2Vec)

The model can also be used directly with Model2Vec.

from model2vec import StaticModel

# Load a pretrained Model2Vec model
model = StaticModel.from_pretrained("neuml/pubmedbert-base-embeddings-500K")

# Compute text embeddings
sentences = ["This is an example sentence", "Each sentence is converted"]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)

Evaluation Results

The following compares performance of this model against the models previously compared with PubMedBERT Embeddings. The following datasets were used to evaluate model performance.

• PubMed QA
  • Subset: pqa_labeled, Split: train, Pair: (question, long_answer)
• PubMed Subset
  • Split: test, Pair: (title, text)
  • Note: The previously used PubMed Subset dataset is no longer available but a similar dataset is used here
• PubMed Summary
  • Subset: pubmed, Split: validation, Pair: (article, abstract)

The Pearson correlation coefficient is used as the evaluation metric.

Model	PubMed QA	PubMed Subset	PubMed Summary	Average
pubmedbert-base-embeddings-8M-M2V (No training)	69.84	70.77	71.30	70.64
pubmedbert-base-embeddings-100K	74.56	84.65	81.84	80.35
pubmedbert-base-embeddings-500K	86.03	91.71	91.25	89.66
pubmedbert-base-embeddings-1M	87.87	92.80	92.87	91.18
pubmedbert-base-embeddings-2M	88.62	93.08	93.24	91.65

The accuracy trade is notable but it's not terribly significant.

Runtime performance

As another test, let's see how long each model takes to index 120K article abstracts using the following code. All indexing is done with a RTX 3090 GPU.

from datasets import load_dataset
from tqdm import tqdm
from txtai import Embeddings

ds = load_dataset("ccdv/pubmed-summarization", split="train")

embeddings = Embeddings(path="path to model", content=True, backend="numpy")
embeddings.index(tqdm(ds["abstract"]))

Model	Model Size (MB)	Index time (s)
pubmedbert-base-embeddings-100K	0.2	19
pubmedbert-base-embeddings-500K	1.0	17
pubmedbert-base-embeddings-1M	2.0	17
pubmedbert-base-embeddings-2M	7.5	17

Vocabulary pruning doesn't change the runtime performance in this case. But the model is much smaller. Vectors are stored at int16 precision. This can be beneficial to smaller/lower powered embedded devices and could lead to faster vectorization times.

Training

This model was vocabulary pruned using the following script.

import json
import os

from collections import Counter
from pathlib import Path

import numpy as np

from model2vec import StaticModel
from more_itertools import batched
from sklearn.decomposition import PCA
from tokenlearn.train import collect_means_and_texts
from tokenizers import Tokenizer
from tqdm import tqdm
from txtai.scoring import ScoringFactory

def tokenize(tokenizer):
    # Tokenize into dataset
    dataset = []
    for t in tqdm(batched(texts, 1024)):
        encodings = tokenizer.encode_batch_fast(t, add_special_tokens=False)
        for e in encodings:
            dataset.append((None, e.ids, None))

    return dataset

def tokenweights(tokenizer):
    dataset = tokenize(tokenizer)

    # Build scoring index
    scoring = ScoringFactory.create({"method": "bm25", "terms": True})
    scoring.index(dataset)

    # Calculate mean value of weights array per token
    tokens = np.zeros(tokenizer.get_vocab_size())
    for x in scoring.idf:
        tokens[x] = np.mean(scoring.terms.weights(x)[1])

    return tokens

# See PubMedBERT Embeddings 2M model for details on this data
features = "features"
paths = sorted(Path(features).glob("*.json"))
texts, _ = collect_means_and_texts(paths)

# Output model parameters
output = "output path"
params, dims = 500000, 64

path = "pubmedbert-base-embeddings-2M_unweighted"
model = StaticModel.from_pretrained(path)

os.makedirs(output, exist_ok=True)

with open(f"{path}/tokenizer.json", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    config = json.load(f)

# Calculate number of tokens to keep
tokencount = params // model.dim

# Calculate term frequency
freqs = Counter()
for _, ids, _ in tokenize(model.tokenizer):
    freqs.update(ids)

# Select top N most common tokens
uids = set(x for x, _ in freqs.most_common(tokencount))
uids = [uid for token, uid in config["model"]["vocab"].items() if uid in uids or token.startswith("[")]

# Get embeddings for uids
model.embedding = model.embedding[uids]

# Select pruned tokens
pairs, index = [], 0
for token, uid in config["model"]["vocab"].items():
    if uid in uids:
        pairs.append((token, index))
        index += 1

config["model"]["vocab"] = dict(pairs)

# Write new tokenizer
with open(f"{output}/tokenizer.json", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    json.dump(config, f, indent=2)

model.tokenizer = Tokenizer.from_file(f"{output}/tokenizer.json")

# Re-weight tokens
weights = tokenweights(model.tokenizer)

# Remove NaNs from embedding, if any
embedding = np.nan_to_num(model.embedding)

# Apply PCA
embedding = PCA(n_components=dims).fit_transform(embedding)

# Apply weights
embedding *= weights[:, None]

# Update model embedding and normalize
model.embedding, model.normalize = embedding.astype(np.int16), True

model.save_pretrained(output)

Acknowledgement

This model is built on the great work from the Minish Lab team consisting of Stephan Tulkens and Thomas van Dongen.

Read more at the following links.

• Model2Vec
• Tokenlearn
• Minish Lab Blog