FastEmbed-rs 🦀

Rust implementation of @qdrant/fastembed

🍕 Features

• Supports synchronous usage. No dependency on Tokio.
• Uses @pykeio/ort for performant ONNX inference.
• Uses @huggingface/tokenizers for fast encodings.
• Supports batch embeddings generation with parallelism using @rayon-rs/rayon.

The default model is Flag Embedding, which is top of the MTEB leaderboard.

🔍 Not looking for Rust?

• Python 🐍: fastembed
• Go 🐳: fastembed-go
• JavaScript 🌐: fastembed-js

🤖 Models

Text Embedding

• BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5
• BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 - Default
• BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5
• BAAI/bge-small-zh-v1.5
• sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
• sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L12-v2
• sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2
• nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1
• nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
• intfloat/multilingual-e5-small
• intfloat/multilingual-e5-base
• intfloat/multilingual-e5-large
• mixedbread-ai/mxbai-embed-large-v1

Reranking

• BAAI/bge-reranker-base

🚀 Installation

Run the following command in your project directory:

cargo add fastembed

Or add the following line to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
fastembed = "3"

📖 Usage

Generating Text Embeddings

use fastembed::{TextEmbedding, InitOptions, EmbeddingModel};

// With default InitOptions
let model = TextEmbedding::try_new(Default::default())?;

// With custom InitOptions
let model = TextEmbedding::try_new(InitOptions {
    model_name: EmbeddingModel::AllMiniLML6V2,
    show_download_progress: true,
    ..Default::default()
})?;

let documents = vec![
    "passage: Hello, World!",
    "query: Hello, World!",
    "passage: This is an example passage.",
    // You can leave out the prefix but it's recommended
    "fastembed-rs is licensed under Apache  2.0"
    ];

 // Generate embeddings with the default batch size, 256
 let embeddings = model.embed(documents, None)?;

 println!("Embeddings length: {}", embeddings.len()); // -> Embeddings length: 4
 println!("Embedding dimension: {}", embeddings[0].len()); // -> Embedding dimension: 384

Candidates Reranking

use fastembed::{TextRerank, RerankInitOptions, RerankerModel};

let model = TextRerank::try_new(RerankInitOptions {
    model_name: RerankerModel::BGERerankerBase,
    show_download_progress: true,
    ..Default::default()
})
.unwrap();

let documents = vec![
    "hi",
    "The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), sometimes called a panda bear, is a bear species endemic to China.",
    "panda is animal",
    "i dont know",
    "kind of mammal",
];

// Rerank with the default batch size
let results = model.rerank("what is panda?", documents, true, None);
println!("Rerank result: {:?}", results);

Alternatively, raw .onnx files can be loaded through the UserDefinedEmbeddingModel struct (for "bring your own" text embedding models) using TextEmbedding::try_new_from_user_defined(...).

🚒 Under the hood

Why fast?

It's important we justify the "fast" in FastEmbed. FastEmbed is fast because:

1. Quantized model weights
2. ONNX Runtime which allows for inference on CPU, GPU, and other dedicated runtimes

Why light?

1. No hidden dependencies via Huggingface Transformers

Why accurate?

1. Better than OpenAI Ada-002
2. Top of the Embedding leaderboards e.g. MTEB

📄 LICENSE

Apache 2.0 © 2024