RETSim: Resilient and Efficient Text Similarity

This paper introduces RETSim (Resilient and Efficient Text Similarity), a lightweight, multilingual deep learning model trained to produce robust metric embeddings for near-duplicate text retrieval, clustering, and dataset deduplication tasks. We demonstrate that RETSim is significantly more robust and accurate than MinHash and neural text embeddings, achieving new state-of-the-art performance on dataset deduplication, adversarial text retrieval benchmarks, and spam clustering tasks. We also introduce the W4NT3D benchmark (Wiki-40B 4dversarial Near-T3xt Dataset) for evaluating multilingual, near-duplicate text retrieval capabilities under adversarial settings. RETSim and the W4NT3D benchmark are open-sourced under the MIT License at https://github.com/google/unisim.

RetVec: Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer

This paper describes RetVec, a resilient multilingual embedding scheme designed for neural-based text processing, including small-text classification and large-language models. RetVec combines a novel character encoding with an optional small model to embed words into a 256-dimensional vector space. These embeddings enable training competitive multilingual text models resilient to typos and adversarial attacks. In this paper, we evaluate and compare RetVec to state-of-the-art tokenizers and word embeddings on common model architectures. These comparisons demonstrate that RetVec leads to competitive models that are significantly more resilient to text perturbations across a variety of common tasks. RetVec is available under Apache 2 license at \url{https://github.com/[anonymized]}.