config_sentence_transformers.json : sentence_similarity_fn_name
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by nadshe - opened
Is there are reason the default similarity name is "cosine" and not "dot"? Was this model not trained with the dot function for scoring?
{
"model_type": "SparseEncoder",
"__version__": {
"sentence_transformers": "5.0.0",
"transformers": "4.52.4",
"pytorch": "2.6.0+cu124"
},
"prompts": {
"query": "",
"document": ""
},
"default_prompt_name": null,
"similarity_fn_name": "cosine"
}
Hello. It's designed to work with cosine similarity (or dot similarity with normalized vectors).