---
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- sentence-transformers
- sentence-similarity
- feature-extraction
- skill-retrieval
- embedding
language:
- en
datasets:
- anonymous-ed-benchmark/skillret-benchmark
library_name: sentence-transformers
pipeline_tag: sentence-similarity
model-index:
- name: SkillRet-Embedding-8B
  results:
  - task:
      type: information-retrieval
      name: Skill Retrieval
    dataset:
      type: anonymous-ed-benchmark/skillret-benchmark
      name: SkillRet Benchmark (test)
      split: test
    metrics:
    - type: ndcg_at_5
      value: 0.8123
      name: NDCG@5
    - type: ndcg_at_10
      value: 0.8345
      name: NDCG@10
    - type: recall_at_10
      value: 0.9123
      name: Recall@10
---

# SkillRet-Embedding-8B

This is a [sentence-transformers](https://www.SBERT.net) model fine-tuned for **AI agent skill retrieval**. Given a natural-language user request, the model retrieves relevant agent skills from a large skill library.

The model is fine-tuned from [Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B) on the [SkillRet benchmark](https://huggingface.co/datasets/anonymous-ed-benchmark/skillret-benchmark) training split using contrastive learning (MultipleNegativesRankingLoss).

## Usage

### Sentence Transformers

```python
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

model = SentenceTransformer("anonymous-ed-benchmark/SkillRet-Embedding-8B", trust_remote_code=True)

query_prompt = "Instruct: Given a skill search query, retrieve relevant skills that match the query\nQuery: "

queries = [
    query_prompt + "Help me set up a CI/CD pipeline for my Python project"
]
skills = [
    "ci-cd-setup | Configure continuous integration and deployment pipelines ...",
    "python-debugging | Debug Python applications using pdb and logging ...",
]

q_emb = model.encode(queries, normalize_embeddings=True)
s_emb = model.encode(skills, normalize_embeddings=True)

similarities = q_emb @ s_emb.T
print(similarities)
```

## Training Details

- **Base model**: Qwen3-Embedding-8B (8B parameters)
- **Training data**: SkillRet benchmark training split (127,190 query–skill pairs from 63,259 queries and 10,123 skills)
- **Loss**: MultipleNegativesRankingLoss (InfoNCE) with cross-GPU negative sharing
- **Hardware**: 4× NVIDIA B200 GPUs (DDP)
- **Effective batch size**: 80 (20 per device × 4 GPUs)
- **Max sequence length**: 8,192 tokens
- **Learning rate**: 2e-5
- **Epochs**: 1
- **Precision**: BF16

## Evaluation Results

Evaluated on the SkillRet benchmark test split (4,997 queries, 6,660 skills).

| Metric | @5 | @10 | @15 |
|--------|------|------|------|
| NDCG | 0.8123 | 0.8345 | 0.8418 |
| Recall | 0.8558 | 0.9123 | 0.9355 |
| Completeness | 0.7562 | 0.8463 | 0.8841 |

## Intended Use

This model is designed for retrieving agent skills given natural-language user requests. It is part of the SkillRet benchmark submission for evaluating skill retrieval systems for AI agents.

## Limitations

- Optimized for English-language queries and agent skills.
- Performance may vary on domains outside the SkillRet benchmark distribution.
- The model retrieves skills but does not execute them.

## Framework Versions

- Python: 3.10.12
- Sentence Transformers: 5.4.1
- Transformers: 5.5.4
- PyTorch: 2.7.1+cu128

## Citation

Citation information will be added in the de-anonymized release.