sentence-transformers 5.2.3

Embeddings, Retrieval, and Reranking

Stars: 18277, Watchers: 18277, Forks: 2758, Open Issues: 1344

The huggingface/sentence-transformers repo was created 6 years ago and the last code push was 17 hours ago.
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How to Install sentence-transformers

You can install sentence-transformers using pip

pip install sentence-transformers

or add it to a project with poetry

poetry add sentence-transformers

Package Details

Author

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License

Apache 2.0

Homepage

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PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/sentence-transformers/

GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers

Classifiers

• Scientific/Engineering/Artificial Intelligence

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GitHub Issues

The sentence-transformers package has 1344 open issues on GitHub

• sentence-transformers package incompatibility started today 26/1/2026
• [feat] Add MultiVectorEncoder Support (a.k.a late-interaction models or ColBERT-style models)
• Add Unsloth to Docs
• [feat] Add ContAccum support to GradCache MNRL
• [feat] Add NoDuplicatesFastBatchSampler
• Experiment to add triplets/n-tuple support to AnglE
• [feat] implement GTE Improved Contrastive Loss (MultipleNegativesBidirectionalRankingLoss)
• Low performance when importing the library
• T5Gemma2 Support
• Support for T5Gemma2 Encoder
• how to finetuning a bi-encoder embedding model of multimodel input
• Make progress bar in SentenceTransformer.encode() configurable
• docs: add sample clip training script with datasets & mlfow implement…
• [feat] Introduce cross-modality and multi-modality support; modularize CrossEncoder class
• [Feat] CrossEncoder class accept prompt template parameters

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