# Sentence-transformer or DPR?

**URL:** https://community.pinecone.io/t/sentence-transformer-or-dpr/299
**Category:** General
**Tags:** sentence-transformer, dpr
**Created:** [March 11, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/sentence-transformer-or-dpr/299 "2022-03-11T19:14:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![sophiem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@sophiem](https://community.pinecone.io/u/sophiem)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/sentence-transformer-or-dpr/299/1 "2022-03-11T19:14:13Z")

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Not sure when to use sentence-transformer or dense passage retrieval? Our friends over at SBERT can help you out. Take a look [here](https://www.sbert.net/docs/pretrained_models.html).

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### Author: ![jamesbriggs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/jamesbriggs/32/52_2.png) [@jamesbriggs](https://community.pinecone.io/u/jamesbriggs)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/sentence-transformer-or-dpr/299/2 "2023-10-17T18:56:03Z")

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