Quickstart prints transformers load warning: embeddings.position_ids UNEXPECTED

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Title: Quickstart prints noisy transformers load warning: embeddings.position_ids | UNEXPECTED when downloading sentence-transformers model

Summary

When running the Quickstart on a fresh environment, the console output includes a Transformers/Sentence-Transformers load report like:

Loading weights: 100%|██████| ...
BertModel LOAD REPORT from: sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
Key | Status |
...
embeddings.position_ids | UNEXPECTED
Notes:
- UNEXPECTED :can be ignored when loading from different task/architecture; not ok if you expect identical arch.

This is confusing for first-time users because it looks like a broken install or model mismatch, but in practice the quickstart still works.

Why it happens

This appears to be upstream logging from transformers when Sentence-Transformers loads all-MiniLM-L6-v2 and encounters an extra/missing state key (often harmless, especially across minor model/architecture variations).

Impact

• Increases time-to-first-success due to perceived error.
• Adds noise in CLI output and docs screenshots.

Proposed fixes

Docs (quick win)

Add a note to Quickstart/Troubleshooting: this message is expected on first run and is safe to ignore.

Code (better DX)

Silence or reduce verbosity during embedding model download/load:

• Set Transformers verbosity to error in Memori init / embeddings module:
  • from transformers.utils import logging as hf_logging; hf_logging.set_verbosity_error()
• Optionally disable progress bars:
  • HF_HUB_DISABLE_PROGRESS_BARS=1
  • TRANSFORMERS_NO_ADVISORY_WARNINGS=1

Optional: pin/compat

If the warning is driven by a specific transformers/sentence-transformers combination, consider pinning compatible versions (or adding a constraint) to reduce surprises.

Workaround for users today

Before running quickstart:

export TRANSFORMERS_VERBOSITY=error
export HF_HUB_DISABLE_PROGRESS_BARS=1

(or set Transformers logging in Python).

Environment

Seen on macOS with a fresh venv running the Memori quickstart.