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"""
Embedding providers for the retrieval layer.
Two things live here:
1. A *pluggable* embedding interface (``Embedder``) plus a concrete
OpenAI-compatible remote provider. This is the **production** path: it hits
an HTTP endpoint and returns real dense vectors.
2. A **deterministic local hashing fallback** (``HashingEmbedder``) that needs
no model weights, no GPU, no API key and no internet. It projects a bag of
character n-grams into a fixed-dimension vector via the hashing trick. This
lets the whole ANN pipeline (FAISS build -> ANN search -> ranking) run
end-to-end offline, which is exactly what we want for demos and CI.
WHY NOT A LOCAL EMBEDDING MODEL?
--------------------------------
This box is a Strix Halo AP with ~104 GiB of unified RAM. It has *tried* to
load a large local embedding/LLM model before and OOM-killed. So we do not
import torch or try to run sentence-transformers here. If you have the RAM and
want real embeddings without paying for an API, drop in a local model:
class LocalEmbedder(Embedder):
DIM = 768
def __init__(self):
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
self._model = SentenceTransformer("all-MiniLM-L6-v2")
def embed(self, texts):
return self._model.encode(texts, normalize_embeddings=True)
and pass it to the index/query builders via the ``embedder=`` argument. The
rest of the pipeline is agnostic to where the vectors come from.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import hashlib
import os
from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
from typing import Sequence
import numpy as np
# The vector dimension the hashing fallback projects into. The remote provider
# returns its own native dimension; the index is built to whatever the embedder
# reports via ``dimension``.
HASHING_DIM = 256
class Embedder(ABC):
"""Abstract embedding provider."""
#: Dimensionality of the vectors this provider emits.
DIM: int
@abstractmethod
def embed(self, texts: Sequence[str]) -> np.ndarray:
"""Embed a batch of texts, returning an (N, DIM) float32 array."""
raise NotImplementedError
def embed_one(self, text: str) -> np.ndarray:
"""Embed a single text, returning a (DIM,) float32 array."""
return self.embed([text])[0]
class HashingEmbedder(Embedder):
"""
Deterministic, dependency-free embedding via the hashing trick.
We tokenize into character 3-grams, hash each one into a bucket, and write
+1/-1 (sign hashed from the gram) into a fixed-size vector, then L2-normalize.
This is *not* semantically meaningful (synonyms are not mapped together), but
it is stable, fast, and shares enough lexical overlap with the query for
near-neighbors to cluster around the right topics. Perfect for exercising
the ANN pipeline without an API key.
"""
DIM = HASHING_DIM
_NGRAM = 3
_SEED = 0xC0FFEE
def __init__(self, dim: int = HASHING_DIM, ngram: int = 3):
self.DIM = dim
self._ngram = ngram
@staticmethod
def _grams(text: str, ngram: int = 3) -> list[str]:
t = text.lower()
return [t[i:i + ngram] for i in range(max(0, len(t) - ngram + 1))]
def embed(self, texts: Sequence[str]) -> np.ndarray:
out = np.zeros((len(texts), self.DIM), dtype=np.float32)
ngram = self._ngram
for i, text in enumerate(texts):
for gram in self._grams(text or "", ngram):
h = int.from_bytes(
hashlib.sha1(gram.encode("utf-8")).digest()[:8],
"little",
)
bucket = h % self.DIM
sign = 1.0 if (h >> 63) & 1 else -1.0
out[i, bucket] += sign
norm = np.linalg.norm(out[i])
if norm > 0:
out[i] /= norm
return out
class RemoteEmbedder(Embedder):
"""
OpenAI-compatible remote embedding provider.
Configured entirely through the environment:
EMBEDDING_API_BASE base URL, e.g. https://api.openai.com/v1
EMBEDDING_API_KEY API key (required)
EMBEDDING_MODEL model name, default text-embedding-3-small
Any endpoint with the OpenAI embeddings shape works (OpenAI, Together,
Groq, a local vLLM/Ollama server, etc.).
"""
_DEFAULT_MODEL = "text-embedding-3-small"
_DEFAULT_DIM = 1536 # text-embedding-3-small's default output dim
def __init__(
self,
api_base: str | None = None,
api_key: str | None = None,
model: str | None = None,
dim: int | None = None,
):
import requests # imported lazily so the fallback needs no network stack
self._requests = requests
self._api_base = (api_base or os.environ.get("EMBEDDING_API_BASE", "")).rstrip("/")
self._api_key = api_key or os.environ.get("EMBEDDING_API_KEY", "")
self._model = model or os.environ.get("EMBEDDING_MODEL", self._DEFAULT_MODEL)
self._dim = dim or int(
os.environ.get("EMBEDDING_DIM", self._DEFAULT_DIM)
)
if not self._api_base:
raise ValueError(
"EMBEDDING_API_BASE is not set; configure it (or use the local "
"HashingEmbedder fallback)."
)
if not self._api_key:
raise ValueError(
"EMBEDDING_API_KEY is not set; set it, or use the local "
"HashingEmbedder fallback."
)
@property
def DIM(self) -> int:
return self._dim
def embed(self, texts: Sequence[str]) -> np.ndarray:
resp = self._requests.post(
f"{self._api_base}/embeddings",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {self._api_key}"},
json={"model": self._model, "input": list(texts), "dimensions": self._dim},
timeout=60,
)
resp.raise_for_status()
payload = resp.json()
items = payload["data"]
# Some backends don't preserve input order; sort by the returned index.
items = sorted(items, key=lambda d: d.get("index", 0))
return np.array([d["embedding"] for d in items], dtype=np.float32)
def get_embedder(embedder: str | Embedder | None = None) -> Embedder:
"""
Resolve an embedder from a name, an instance, or the environment.
Resolution order:
1. ``embedder="remote"`` or an ``Embedder`` instance -> use it directly.
2. ``embedder="hashing"`` -> deterministic local fallback.
3. If ``EMBEDDING_API_BASE`` and ``EMBEDDING_API_KEY`` are both set ->
remote provider (the production path).
4. Otherwise -> the local hashing fallback (with a printed note).
This means the CLI works out of the box with no configuration: it silently
degrades to the reproducible local embedding when no API key is present.
"""
name = (embedder or "").lower() if isinstance(embedder, str) else None
if isinstance(embedder, Embedder):
return embedder
if name == "hashing":
return HashingEmbedder()
if name == "remote":
return RemoteEmbedder()
api_base = os.environ.get("EMBEDDING_API_BASE")
api_key = os.environ.get("EMBEDDING_API_KEY")
if api_base and api_key:
print(f"[embed] using remote provider: {api_base} (model={os.environ.get('EMBEDDING_MODEL')})")
return RemoteEmbedder()
print(
"[embed] no EMBEDDING_API_BASE/KEY configured -> using local "
"HashingEmbedder (deterministic, offline, non-semantic). Set the env vars "
"or pass embedder=RemoteEmbedder() for real semantic embeddings."
)
return HashingEmbedder()