SetFit remains one of the cheapest ways to train solid text classifiers

tomaarsen · x · 2026-09-04

The author notes SetFit has been around since 2022 and remains one of the cheapest ways to get a solid text classifier: no prompts, small models that train in minutes, any Hub embedding model as backbone (the intro snippet uses a ModernBERT one), and ONNX/OpenVINO export for deployment.

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