Swiftrank is now using flashrank int8 models from Huggingface repository

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Streamlined, Light-Weight, Ultra-Fast State-of-the-Art Reranker, Engineered for Both Retrieval Pipelines and Terminal Applications.

Re-write version of FlashRank with additional features, more flexibility and optimizations.

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Features 🌀

🌟 Light Weight:

• undefinedNo Torch or Transformers: Operable solely on CPU.
• Boasts the tiniest reranking model in the world, ~4MB.

⚡ Ultra Fast:

• Reranking efficiency depends on the total token count in contexts and queries, plus the depth of the model (number of layers).
• For illustration, the duration for the process using the standard model is exemplified in the following test:
  

🎯 Based on SoTA Cross-encoders and other models:

• How good are Zero-shot rerankers? => Reference.
• Supported Models :-
  • ms-marco-TinyBERT-L-2-v2 (default) Model card
  • ms-marco-MiniLM-L-12-v2 Model card
  • rank-T5-flan (Best non cross-encoder reranker) Model card
  • ms-marco-MultiBERT-L-12 (Multi-lingual, supports 100+ languages)
  • ce-esci-MiniLM-L12-v2 FT on Amazon ESCI dataset (This is interesting because most models are FT on MSFT MARCO Bing queries) Model card
• Why only sleeker models? Reranking is the final leg of larger retrieval pipelines, idea is to avoid any extra overhead especially for user-facing scenarios. To that end models with really small footprint that doesn’t need any specialised hardware and yet offer competitive performance are chosen. Feel free to raise issues to add support for a new models as you see fit.

🔧 Versatile Configuration:

• Implements a structured pipeline for the reranking process. Ranker and Tokenizer instances are passed to create the pipeline.
• Supports complex dictionary/class objects handling.
• Includes a customizable threshold parameter to filter contexts, ensuring only those with a value equal to or exceeding the threshold are selected.

⌨️ Terminal Integration:

• Pipe your output into swiftrank cli tool and get reranked output

🌐 API Integration:

• Deploy swiftrank as an API service for seamless integration into your workflow.

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🚀 Installation

pip install swiftrank

CLI Usage 🤗

Usage: swiftrank COMMAND

Rerank contexts provided on stdin.

╭─ Commands ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ process    STDIN processor. [ json | jsonl | yaml ]            │
│ serve      Startup a swiftrank server                          │
│ --help,-h  Display this message and exit.                      │
│ --version  Display application version.                        │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Parameters ───────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ *  --query      -q  query for reranking evaluation. [required] │
│    --threshold  -t  filter contexts using threshold.           │
│    --first      -f  get most relevant context.                 │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

• Print most relevant context

  cat files/contexts | swiftrank -q "Jujutsu Kaisen: Season 2" -f
  

  Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season
  

• Filtering using threshold

  piping the output to fzf provides with a selection menu

  cat files/contexts | swiftrank -q "Jujutsu Kaisen: Season 2" -t 0.98 | fzf
  

  Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season
  Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season Recaps
  

• Using different model by setting SWIFTRANK_MODEL environment variable

  • Shell

    export SWIFTRANK_MODEL="ms-marco-MiniLM-L-12-v2"
    

  • Powershell

    $env:SWIFTRANK_MODEL = "ms-marco-MiniLM-L-12-v2"
    

  cat files/contexts | swiftrank -q "Jujutsu Kaisen: Season 2" 
  

  Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season
  Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season Recaps
  Jujutsu Kaisen
  Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie
  Jujutsu Kaisen Official PV
  Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2
  Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Part 2
  Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3
  Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season
  Kimi ni Todoke 2nd Season
  

Handling Complex Data

Note: The schema closely resembles that of JQ, but employs a custom parser to avoid the hassle of installing JQ.

Usage: swiftrank process [OPTIONS]

STDIN processor. [ json | jsonl | yaml ]

╭─ Parameters ──────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --pre   -r  schema for pre-processing input.              │
│ --ctx   -c  schema for extracting context.                │
│ --post  -p  schema for extracting field after reranking.  │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

• json

  cat files/contexts.json | swiftrank -q "Jujutsu Kaisen: Season 2" process -r ".categories[].items" -c '.name' -t 0.9  
  

  Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season
  Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season Recaps
  Jujutsu Kaisen
  Jujutsu Kaisen Official PV
  Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie
  

  Provide one field for reranking and retrieve a different field as the output using --post/-p option

  cat files/contexts.json | swiftrank -q "Jujutsu Kaisen: Season 2" process -r ".categories[].items" -c '.name' -p '.url' -f
  

  https://myanimelist.net/anime/51009/Jujutsu_Kaisen_2nd_Season
  

• yaml

  cat files/contexts.yaml | swiftrank -q "Monogatari Series: Season 2" process -r ".categories[].items" -c '.name' -f
  

  Monogatari Series: Second Season
  

  Provide one field for reranking and receive a different field as the output using --post/-p option

  cat files/contexts.yaml | swiftrank -q "Monogatari Series: Season 2" process -r ".categories[].items" -c '.name' -p '.payload.status' -f
  

  Finished Airing
  

Json and Yaml lines doesn’t require --pre/-r option, as they’re by default loaded into an array object.

• jsonlines

  cat files/contexts.jsonl | swiftrank -q "Monogatari Series: Season 2" process -c '.name' -p '.payload.aired' -f
  

  Jul 7, 2013 to Dec 29, 2013
  

• yamllines

  cat files/contextlines.yaml | swiftrank -q "Monogatari Series: Season 2" process -c '.name' -f  
  

  Monogatari Series: Second Season
  

Startup a FastAPI server instance

Usage: swiftrank serve [OPTIONS]

Startup a swiftrank server

╭─ Parameters ──────────────────────────────╮
│ --host  Host name [default: 0.0.0.0]      │
│ --port  Port number. [default: 12345]     │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────╯

swiftrank serve

[GET] /models - List Models
[POST] /rerank - Rerank Endpoint

Library Usage 🤗

• Build a ReRankPipeline instance

  • From Ranker and Tokenizer instance

    from swiftrank import Ranker, Tokenizer, ReRankPipeline
    
    ranker = Ranker(model_id="ms-marco-TinyBERT-L-2-v2")
    tokenizer = Tokenizer(model_id="ms-marco-TinyBERT-L-2-v2")
    reranker = ReRankPipeline(ranker=ranker, tokenizer=tokenizer)
    

  • Or directly from Model ID

    from swiftrank import ReRankPipeline
    
    reranker = ReRankPipeline.from_model_id("ms-marco-TinyBERT-L-2-v2")
    

• Evaluate the pipeline

  contexts = [
      "Introduce *lookahead decoding*: - a parallel decoding algo to accelerate LLM inference - w/o the need for a draft model or a data store - linearly decreases # decoding steps relative to log(FLOPs) used per decoding step.",
      "LLM inference efficiency will be one of the most crucial topics for both industry and academia, simply because the more efficient you are, the more $$$ you will save. vllm project is a must-read for this direction, and now they have just released the paper",
      "There are many ways to increase LLM inference throughput (tokens/second) and decrease memory footprint, sometimes at the same time. Here are a few methods I’ve found effective when working with Llama 2. These methods are all well-integrated with Hugging Face. This list is far from exhaustive; some of these techniques can be used in combination with each other and there are plenty of others to try. - Bettertransformer (Optimum Library): Simply call `model.to_bettertransformer()` on your Hugging Face model for a modest improvement in tokens per second.  - Fp4 Mixed-Precision (Bitsandbytes): Requires minimal configuration and dramatically reduces the model's memory footprint.  - AutoGPTQ: Time-consuming but leads to a much smaller model and faster inference. The quantization is a one-time cost that pays off in the long run.",
      "Ever want to make your LLM inference go brrrrr but got stuck at implementing speculative decoding and finding the suitable draft model? No more pain! Thrilled to unveil Medusa, a simple framework that removes the annoying draft model while getting 2x speedup.",
      "vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving. vLLM is fast with: State-of-the-art serving throughput Efficient management of attention key and value memory with PagedAttention Continuous batching of incoming requests Optimized CUDA kernels"
  ]
  for ctx in reranker.invoke(
      query="Tricks to accelerate LLM inference", contexts=contexts
  ):
      print(ctx)
  

  Introduce *lookahead decoding*: - a parallel decoding algo to accelerate LLM inference - w/o the need for a draft model or a data store - linearly decreases # decoding steps relative to log(FLOPs) used per decoding step.
  There are many ways to increase LLM inference throughput (tokens/second) and decrease memory footprint, sometimes at the same time. Here are a few methods I’ve found effective when working with Llama 2. These methods are all well-integrated with Hugging Face. This list is far from exhaustive; some of these techniques can be used in combination with each other and there are plenty of others to try. - Bettertransformer (Optimum Library): Simply call `model.to_bettertransformer()` on your Hugging Face model for a modest improvement in tokens per second.  - Fp4 Mixed-Precision (Bitsandbytes): Requires minimal configuration and dramatically reduces the model's memory footprint.  - AutoGPTQ: Time-consuming but leads to a much smaller model and faster inference. The quantization is a one-time cost that pays off in the long run.
  vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving. vLLM is fast with: State-of-the-art serving throughput Efficient management of attention key and value memory with PagedAttention Continuous batching of incoming requests Optimized CUDA kernels
  LLM inference efficiency will be one of the most crucial topics for both industry and academia, simply because the more efficient you are, the more $$$ you will save. vllm project is a must-read for this direction, and now they have just released the paper
  Ever want to make your LLM inference go brrrrr but got stuck at implementing speculative decoding and finding the suitable draft model? No more pain! Thrilled to unveil Medusa, a simple framework that removes the annoying draft model while getting 2x speedup.
  

• Get score mapped contexts as output

  for ctx_w_score in reranker.invoke_with_score(
      query="Tricks to accelerate LLM inference", contexts=contexts
  ):
      print(ctx_w_score)
  

  (0.9977508, 'Introduce *lookahead decoding*: - a parallel decoding algo to accelerate LLM inference - w/o the need for a draft model or a data store - linearly decreases # decoding steps relative to log(FLOPs) used per decoding step.')
  (0.9415497, "There are many ways to increase LLM inference throughput (tokens/second) and decrease memory footprint, sometimes at the same time. Here are a few methods I’ve found effective when working with Llama 2. These methods are all well-integrated with Hugging Face. This list is far from exhaustive; some of these techniques can be used in combination with each other and there are plenty of others to try. - Bettertransformer (Optimum Library): Simply call `model.to_bettertransformer()` on your Hugging Face model for a modest improvement in tokens per second.  - Fp4 Mixed-Precision (Bitsandbytes): Requires minimal configuration and dramatically reduces the model's memory footprint.  - AutoGPTQ: Time-consuming but leads to a much smaller model and faster inference. The quantization is a one-time cost that pays off in the long run.")
  (0.47455463, 'vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving. vLLM is fast with: State-of-the-art serving throughput Efficient management of attention key and value memory with PagedAttention Continuous batching of incoming requests Optimized CUDA kernels')
  (0.43783104, 'LLM inference efficiency will be one of the most crucial topics for both industry and academia, simply because the more efficient you are, the more $$$ you will save. vllm project is a must-read for this direction, and now they have just released the paper')
  (0.043041725, 'Ever want to make your LLM inference go brrrrr but got stuck at implementing speculative decoding and finding the suitable draft model? No more pain! Thrilled to unveil Medusa, a simple framework that removes the annoying draft model while getting 2x speedup.')
  

• Want to filter contexts? Utilize threshold parameter.

  for ctx in reranker.invoke(
      query="Tricks to accelerate LLM inference", contexts=contexts, threshold=0.8
  ):
      print(ctx)
  

  Introduce *lookahead decoding*: - a parallel decoding algo to accelerate LLM inference - w/o the need for a draft model or a data store - linearly decreases # decoding steps relative to log(FLOPs) used per decoding step.
  There are many ways to increase LLM inference throughput (tokens/second) and decrease memory footprint, sometimes at the same time. Here are a few methods I’ve found effective when working with Llama 2. These methods are all well-integrated with Hugging Face. This list is far from exhaustive; some of these techniques can be used in combination with each other and there are plenty of others to try. - Bettertransformer (Optimum Library): Simply call `model.to_bettertransformer()` on your Hugging Face model for a modest improvement in tokens per second.  - Fp4 Mixed-Precision (Bitsandbytes): Requires minimal configuration and dramatically reduces the model's memory footprint.  - AutoGPTQ: Time-consuming but leads to a much smaller model and faster inference. The quantization is a one-time cost that pays off in the long run.
  

• Have dictionary or class instance as contexts? Utilize key parameter.

  • dictionary object

    contexts = [
        {"id": 1, "content": "Introduce *lookahead decoding*: - a parallel decoding algo to accelerate LLM inference - w/o the need for a draft model or a data store - linearly decreases # decoding steps relative to log(FLOPs) used per decoding step."},
        {"id": 2, "content": "LLM inference efficiency will be one of the most crucial topics for both industry and academia, simply because the more efficient you are, the more $$$ you will save. vllm project is a must-read for this direction, and now they have just released the paper"},
        {"id": 3, "content": "There are many ways to increase LLM inference throughput (tokens/second) and decrease memory footprint, sometimes at the same time. Here are a few methods I’ve found effective when working with Llama 2. These methods are all well-integrated with Hugging Face. This list is far from exhaustive; some of these techniques can be used in combination with each other and there are plenty of others to try. - Bettertransformer (Optimum Library): Simply call `model.to_bettertransformer()` on your Hugging Face model for a modest improvement in tokens per second.  - Fp4 Mixed-Precision (Bitsandbytes): Requires minimal configuration and dramatically reduces the model's memory footprint.  - AutoGPTQ: Time-consuming but leads to a much smaller model and faster inference. The quantization is a one-time cost that pays off in the long run."},
        {"id": 4, "content": "Ever want to make your LLM inference go brrrrr but got stuck at implementing speculative decoding and finding the suitable draft model? No more pain! Thrilled to unveil Medusa, a simple framework that removes the annoying draft model while getting 2x speedup."},
        {"id": 5, "content": "vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving. vLLM is fast with: State-of-the-art serving throughput Efficient management of attention key and value memory with PagedAttention Continuous batching of incoming requests Optimized CUDA kernels"}
    ]
    for ctx in reranker.invoke(
        query="Tricks to accelerate LLM inference", contexts=contexts, key=lambda x: x['content']
    ):
        print(ctx)
    

    {'id': 1, 'content': 'Introduce *lookahead decoding*: - a parallel decoding algo to accelerate LLM inference - w/o the need for a draft model or a data store - linearly decreases # decoding steps relative to log(FLOPs) used per decoding step.'}
    {'id': 3, 'content': "There are many ways to increase LLM inference throughput (tokens/second) and decrease memory footprint, sometimes at the same time. Here are a few methods I’ve found effective when working with Llama 2. These methods are all well-integrated with Hugging Face. This list is far from exhaustive; some of these techniques can be used in combination with each other and there are plenty of others to try. - Bettertransformer (Optimum Library): Simply call `model.to_bettertransformer()` on your Hugging Face model for a modest improvement in tokens per second.  - Fp4 Mixed-Precision (Bitsandbytes): Requires minimal configuration and dramatically reduces the model's memory footprint.  - AutoGPTQ: Time-consuming but leads to a much smaller model and faster inference. The quantization is a one-time cost that pays off in the long run."}
    {'id': 5, 'content': 'vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving. vLLM is fast with: State-of-the-art serving throughput Efficient management of attention key and value memory with PagedAttention Continuous batching of incoming requests Optimized CUDA kernels'}
    {'id': 2, 'content': 'LLM inference efficiency will be one of the most crucial topics for both industry and academia, simply because the more efficient you are, the more $$$ you will save. vllm project is a must-read for this direction, and now they have just released the paper'}
    {'id': 4, 'content': 'Ever want to make your LLM inference go brrrrr but got stuck at implementing speculative decoding and finding the suitable draft model? No more pain! Thrilled to unveil Medusa, a simple framework that removes the annoying draft model while getting 2x speedup.'}
    

  • class instance or pydantic.BaseModel object

    from langchain_core.documents import Document
    
    contexts = [
        Document(page_content="Introduce *lookahead decoding*: - a parallel decoding algo to accelerate LLM inference - w/o the need for a draft model or a data store - linearly decreases # decoding steps relative to log(FLOPs) used per decoding step."),
        Document(page_content="LLM inference efficiency will be one of the most crucial topics for both industry and academia, simply because the more efficient you are, the more $$$ you will save. vllm project is a must-read for this direction, and now they have just released the paper"),
        Document(page_content="There are many ways to increase LLM inference throughput (tokens/second) and decrease memory footprint, sometimes at the same time. Here are a few methods I’ve found effective when working with Llama 2. These methods are all well-integrated with Hugging Face. This list is far from exhaustive; some of these techniques can be used in combination with each other and there are plenty of others to try. - Bettertransformer (Optimum Library): Simply call `model.to_bettertransformer()` on your Hugging Face model for a modest improvement in tokens per second.  - Fp4 Mixed-Precision (Bitsandbytes): Requires minimal configuration and dramatically reduces the model's memory footprint.  - AutoGPTQ: Time-consuming but leads to a much smaller model and faster inference. The quantization is a one-time cost that pays off in the long run."),
        Document(page_content="Ever want to make your LLM inference go brrrrr but got stuck at implementing speculative decoding and finding the suitable draft model? No more pain! Thrilled to unveil Medusa, a simple framework that removes the annoying draft model while getting 2x speedup."),
        Document(page_content="vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving. vLLM is fast with: State-of-the-art serving throughput Efficient management of attention key and value memory with PagedAttention Continuous batching of incoming requests Optimized CUDA kernels")
    ]
    for ctx in reranker.invoke(
        query="Tricks to accelerate LLM inference", contexts=contexts, key=lambda x: x.page_content
    ):
        print(ctx)
    

    page_content='Introduce *lookahead decoding*: - a parallel decoding algo to accelerate LLM inference - w/o the need for a draft model or a data store - linearly decreases # decoding steps relative to log(FLOPs) used per decoding step.'
    page_content="There are many ways to increase LLM inference throughput (tokens/second) and decrease memory footprint, sometimes at the same time. Here are a few methods I’ve found effective when working with Llama 2. These methods are all well-integrated with Hugging Face. This list is far from exhaustive; some of these techniques can be used in combination with each other and there are plenty of others to try. - Bettertransformer (Optimum Library): Simply call `model.to_bettertransformer()` on your Hugging Face model for a modest improvement in tokens per second.  - Fp4 Mixed-Precision (Bitsandbytes): Requires minimal configuration and dramatically reduces the model's memory footprint.  - AutoGPTQ: Time-consuming but leads to a much smaller model and faster inference. The quantization is a one-time cost that pays off in the long run."
    page_content='vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving. vLLM is fast with: State-of-the-art serving throughput Efficient management of attention key and value memory with PagedAttention Continuous batching of incoming requests Optimized CUDA kernels'
    page_content='LLM inference efficiency will be one of the most crucial topics for both industry and academia, simply because the more efficient you are, the more $$$ you will save. vllm project is a must-read for this direction, and now they have just released the paper'
    page_content='Ever want to make your LLM inference go brrrrr but got stuck at implementing speculative decoding and finding the suitable draft model? No more pain! Thrilled to unveil Medusa, a simple framework that removes the annoying draft model while getting 2x speedup.'
    

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Acknowledgment of Original Repository

This project is derived from FlashRank, which is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. We extend our gratitude to the original authors and contributors for their work. The original repository provided a foundational framework for the development of our project, and we have built upon it with additional features and improvements.

Citation

@software{Damodaran_FlashRank_Lightest_and_2023,
author = {Damodaran, Prithiviraj},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.10426927},
month = dec,
title = {{FlashRank, Lightest and Fastest 2nd Stage Reranker for search pipelines.}},
url = {https://github.com/PrithivirajDamodaran/FlashRank},
version = {1.0.0},
year = {2023}
}