Building Sentence Transformers in Rust: A Practical Guide with Burn, ONNX Runtime, and Candle

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  1. fastembed-rs

    Rust library for generating vector embeddings, reranking locally!

    FastEmbed-rs: Production-ready embeddings (https://github.com/Anush008/fastembed-rs)

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  3. rust-bert

    Rust native ready-to-use NLP pipelines and transformer-based models (BERT, DistilBERT, GPT2,...)

    rust-bert: Complete NLP pipelines (https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert)

  4. sentence-transformers-rs

    A Rust port of sentence-transformers, a library for generating embeddings.

    sentence-transformers-rs: Candle-based transformers (https://github.com/jwnz/sentence-transformers-rs)

  5. ort

    Fast ML inference & training for ONNX models in Rust

    ONNX Runtime Rust: https://ort.pyke.io

  6. tokenizers

    💥 Fast State-of-the-Art Tokenizers optimized for Research and Production

    HuggingFace Tokenizers: https://huggingface.co/docs/tokenizers

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