Various comments

[tomaarsen]

Hello (again)!

After experimenting with the project some more, I've found a few points of potential improvements. I'll aggregate them here if that's okay:

• Set device=None as the default in distill, rather than "cpu". This should use Sentence Transformers' functionality to get the "strongest" available device by default (e.g. "cuda" first). P.s.: distilling mxbai-embed-large-v1 takes 00:05 seconds on my GPU vs 01:58 on CPU. (Edit: Might be moot since remove sentence transformers dependency #35)
• Allow 1) passing an initialized Sentence Transformer model or 2) introduce the trust_remote_code argument. This is required for loading models with custom code, such as https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-en or https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5. (Edit: Might be moot since remove sentence transformers dependency #35)
• Don't be afraid to link to yourself in the README.md, i.e. in the bottom of the model card template you could put a hyperlink over your names to your GitHub or something. I've included this in [enh] Rely on Jinja for model card, use model id/path in snippet #37.
• In my experience, the private argument in push_to_hub is quite well liked, it allows people to look the model (card) over before making the model public to everyone.
• The token argument in push_to_hub should be optional. If it's not specified, then the Hugging Face tools will automatically load it from your local filesystem if you ever did huggingface-cli login.
• "Model Authors" in the model card is a bit of a misnomer: if someone else trained the model then they're the authors, you're the Model2Vec authors.
• You can add "Model2Vec models on Hugging Face" or something to the Additional Resources, linking to https://huggingface.co/models?library=model2vec, if you want.

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• Tom Aarsen

[stephantul]

Let me reply to these in order:

1. As you mention, we're removing sentence transformers as a dependency because we'd like to avoid circular dependency issues.
2. Idem
3. Thanks for the PR, much appreciated.
4. Good point, adding it in PR
5. Ok, makes sense
6. Also makes sense
7. Cool, will also add.

I'll update this with references to the PRs.

[stephantul]

Fixed in #39 and #36 thanks!

[tomaarsen]

Awesome! Nice work