Local Chunker Index Stage

This feature is only available in Fusion 5.9.x for versions 5.9.14 and later.

The Local Chunker indexing stage uses your local Ray deployment or your API to break down large text documents into smaller, semantically meaningful chunks, vectorizes those chunks for Neural Hybrid Search, and stores those vectors in Solr. Use this index stage if:

You want to use chunking in your Fusion search strategy with an external chunking solution.
You are comfortable setting up your own Ray Serve environment or using Fusion’s Ray image.
You cannot use the LWAI Chunker Index Stage, which uses Lucidworks AI to break down large text documents.

You must set up the Local Chunker stage with Fusion’s Ray image, your own Ray Serve environment, or an API. See “Develop and deploy a chunking machine learning model with Ray” below for a tutorial for your own Ray Serve environment. If you are using an API instead of a Ray model deployment to do chunking, the minimum requirement is that the response matches what the Local Chunker Stage input requires.

Develop and deploy a chunking machine learning model with Ray

This feature is only available in Fusion 5.9.x for versions 5.9.14 and later.

This tutorial walks you through deploying your own chunking model to Fusion with Ray.

Prerequisites

A Fusion instance with an app and data to index
An understanding of Python and the ability to write Python code
Docker installed locally, plus a private or public Docker repository
Ray installed locally: pip install ray[serve]
Code editor; you can use any editor, but Visual Studio Code is used in this example
Model: Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-xs
Docker image for chunking on indexing: ray-chunking-snowflake-arctic-embed-xs
Docker image for chunking on querying: ray-snowflake-arctic-embed-xs

The chunking query parsers are added to your solrconfig.xml file, if not present:

<!-- FUSION NOTES: These query parsers are used with Solr-based vector search -->
<queryParser name="xvecSim" class="org.apache.solr.lwbackported.XVecSimQParserPlugin"/>
<queryParser name="_lw_chunk_wrap" class="org.apache.solr.lw.ParentAndAllKidsWrapperQParserPlugin"/>
<queryParser name="neuralHybrid" class="org.apache.solr.lw.NeuralHybridQParserPlugin"/>

The vector definitions are added to your managed-schema.xml file. See Vector definitions for the full definitions.

Tips

Always test your Python code locally before uploading to Docker and then Fusion. This simplifies troubleshooting significantly.
Once you’ve created your Docker you can also test locally by doing docker run with a specified port, like 8000, which you can then curl to confirm functionality in Fusion. See the testing example below.
If you run into an issue with the model not deploying and you’re using the ‘real’ example, there is a very good chance you haven’t allocated enough memory or CPU in your job spec or in the Ray-Argo config. You can increase the resources. To edit the ConfigMap, run kubectl edit configmap argo-deploy-ray-model-workflow -n <namespace> and then find the ray-head container in the artisanal escaped YAML and change the memory limit. Exercise caution when editing because it can break the YAML. Just delete and replace a single character at a time without changing any formatting. For additional guidance, see the testing locally snowflake-arctic-embed-xs_chunking-ray example.

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Local testing example

Docker command:

docker run -p 127.0.0.1:8000:8000 DOCKER_IMAGE

Curl to hit Docker:

curl -i -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"text": "I love Fusion", "quantize":True, "include_text_chunks":True}'

Curl model in Fusion:

curl -u $FUSION_USER:$FUSION_PASSWORD  -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"text": "I love Fusion", "quantize":True, "include_text_chunks":False}' https://FUSION_HOST:6764/api/ai/ml-models/MODEL_NAME/prediction

See all your deployed models:

https://FUSION_HOST.com/api/ai/ml-models

Check the Ray UI to see Replica State, Resources, and Logs. If you are getting an internal model error, the best way to see what is going on is to query via port-forwarding the model. The MODEL_DEPLOYMENT in the command below can be found with kubectl get svc -n NAMESPACE. It will have the same name as set in the model name in the Create Ray Model Deployment job.
```
kubectl -n NAMESPACE port-forward svc/MODEL_DEPLOYMENT-head-svc 8000:8265
```

Download the model and choose a chunking strategy

This tutorial uses the Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-xs model from Hugging Face, but any pre-trained model from huggingface.co works with this tutorial.For the chunking strategy you can start with LangChain or LlamaIndex.If you want to use your own model instead, you can do so, but your model must have been trained and then saved though a function similar to the PyTorch’s torch.save(model, PATH) function. See Saving and Loading Models in the PyTorch documentation.

Create the index model

The next step is to format a Python class which will be invoked by Fusion to get the results from your index model. The skeleton below represents the format that you should follow. This is distinct from the standard example without chunking because the format to output is more complex.The model’s return value must be a dictionary with a key named response. The value associated with this key must be a JSON string. When parsed, this JSON string is a dictionary that contains two primary keys:

spans: A list of lists, where each inner list represents [start_index, end_index] pairs for each text chunk
vectors: A list of dictionaries. Each dictionary in this list must have a key named vector, and the value is a list of numbers representing an embedding vector with the shape of (1, DIM), where DIM (vector dimension) is a consistent integer. This format is required for the Local Chunker Index Stage to handle the vector encoding.

Optionally you can pass the actual chunks in a list of strings. However, this is not recommended due to the Solr storage impact of saving a very large document twice. See also Getting Started in the Ray Serve documentation.

import json
from typing import Any, Dict, List
from ray import serve
from starlette.requests import Request
from torch import Tensor


# These defaults are for the ray serve deployment
# when running simply from docker. The 'Create Ray Model Deployment'
# job can override these replicas and resources if needed.
@serve.deployment(num_replicas=1, ray_actor_options={"num_cpus": 1})
class Deployment(object):
    def __init__(self):
        """
        Add any initialization parameters. Generally this is where you would load
        your model. This method will be called once when the deployment is created.
        """
        print("Initializing")
        self.model = load_model()  # faux code

    # This can be named as any method which takes a dictionary as input and returns a dictionary
    # as output. In this example, we are using the encode method to encode the
    # input text into a vector.
    def main(self, input_dict: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        """
        This method will be called when the deployment is queried. It will receive
        the input data and should return the output data.
        """
        text = input_dict["text"]
        chunks = self.chunk_text(text)  # faux code
        spans = self.get_spans(text)  # faux code
        embeddings = self.model.encode(chunks)  # faux code
        output = self.create_output_dict(spans=spans, vectors=embeddings, chunks=chunks)
        return output

    # This shows the required structure of the output dictionary.
    # The 'spans' and 'vectors' keys are required for the `Local Chunker` stage.
    def create_output_dict(
        self,
        spans: List[List[int]],
        vectors: Tensor,
        chunks: List[str],
    ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        vectors = self.format_vectors(vectors=vectors, chunks_len=len(chunks))
        output_dict = {
            "spans": spans,  # required
            "vectors": vectors,  # required
            "chunks": chunks,  # optional
        }

        return {
            "response": json.dumps(output_dict), # This is required because the Fusion logic doesn't handle nested structures
        }

    # This converts the vectors to the required format
    # for the Local Chunking stage. The structure
    # is a list of dictionaries,each containing a
    # 'vector' key.
    # [{"vector": [0.1, 0.2, ...]}, {"vector": [0.3, 0.4, ...]}, ...]
    @staticmethod
    def format_vectors(
        vectors: Tensor,
        chunks_len: int,
    ) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
        vectors = (
            vectors.squeeze().tolist()
            if chunks_len > 1
            else [vectors.squeeze().tolist()]
        )
        # Convert the tensor to a list of dictionaries
        formatted_vectors = []
        for vector in vectors:
            formatted_vectors.append({"vector": vector})
        return formatted_vectors

    async def __call__(self, http_request: Request) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        input_dict: Dict[str, Any] = await http_request.json()
        return self.main(
            input_dict=input_dict
        )  # This will be the function you defined above, in this case main


app = Deployment.bind()

A real instance of this class with the snowflake-arctic-embed-xs model is as follows:NOTE: This code pulls from Hugging Face. To have the model load in the image without pulling from Hugging Face or other external sources, download the model weights into a folder name and change the model name to the folder name preceded by ./.

"""
Example is based on:
    - https://huggingface.co/Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-xs
    - https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/serve/getting_started.html
"""

import json
import sys
from time import time
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional

import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from langchain_text_splitters import CharacterTextSplitter
from ray import serve
from starlette.requests import Request
from starlette.responses import JSONResponse
from torch import Tensor
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

HUB_MODEL_NAME = "Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-xs"
# Truncate to 150k characters to avoid timeout errors from model
# and 10 Chunk limit to protect Fusion document count
CHAR_TRUNCATION = 150_000
MAX_CHUNKS = 10


@serve.deployment(num_replicas=1, ray_actor_options={"num_cpus": 1})
class Deployment(object):
    def __init__(self):
        from loguru import logger

        # Initializing logger
        self.logger = logger
        self.logger.remove()
        self.logger.add(sys.stdout, level="INFO", serialize=False, colorize=True)

        # Initializing model
        self.logger.info("Loading model...")
        self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(HUB_MODEL_NAME)
        self.model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(HUB_MODEL_NAME)
        self.model.eval()
        self.vector_size = 384
        self.logger.info("Model initialization finished!")
        # snowflake-arctic-embed-xs specific prefix (NOT for other models)
        self.query_prefix = "Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages:"
        self.passage_prefix = ""

    def main(self, input_dict: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        try:
            timings_dict = {}
            _start_time = time()

            # Extracting text from input
            text = input_dict.get("text", None)
            include_text_chunks = self.obj_to_bool(
                input_dict.get("include_text_chunks", False)
            )

            if text is None:  # Check if text is None and return
                self.logger.error("No text provided in the input dictionary.")
                return JSONResponse(
                    {"error": "No `text`input key provided"}, status_code=400
                )
            elif (
                text.isspace() or len(text) == 0
            ):  # Check if the text is empty and return
                self.logger.warning("Empty text provided. Returning empty output.")
                return self.create_output_dict(
                    spans=[],
                    vectors=[],
                    chunks=[],
                    include_text_chunks=include_text_chunks,
                )
            elif len(text) > CHAR_TRUNCATION:  # Check if the text is too long
                text = text[:CHAR_TRUNCATION]
                self.logger.warning(
                    f"Input text truncated to {CHAR_TRUNCATION} characters"
                    f" to avoid Fusion stage timeout errors."
                )
            # Log the length of the text
            self.logger.debug(f"Text len: {len(text)}")

            # Check DataType
            dataType = input_dict.get("dataType", "passage")

            # Check if quantization is set
            quantize_bool = self.obj_to_bool(input_dict.get("quantize", False))
            # Check if chunks should be included

            # chunking the text
            chunks = self.chunk_text(text)
            initial_chunk_count = len(chunks)
            # Limit the number of chunks to Expolding Fusion Document Count
            if initial_chunk_count > MAX_CHUNKS:
                chunks = chunks[:MAX_CHUNKS]
                self.logger.warning(
                    f"Input text chunked into {initial_chunk_count} chunks. "
                    f"Only the first {MAX_CHUNKS} chunks will be processed."
                )
            timings_dict["chunking_time"] = time()
            spans = self.get_chunk_spans(text=text, chunks=chunks)
            timings_dict["span_extraction_time"] = time()

            # encoding the chunks
            vectors = self.encode_chunks(chunks, dataType=dataType)
            timings_dict["encoding_time"] = time()
            # Check if quantization is set
            if quantize_bool:
                vectors = self.quantize_vectors(embeddings=vectors)
                timings_dict["quantization_time"] = time()

            # Create output dictionary
            output_dict = self.create_output_dict(
                spans=spans,
                vectors=vectors,
                chunks=chunks,
                include_text_chunks=include_text_chunks,
            )
            self.log_response_timings(
                action_name="chunk_via_ray",
                start_time=_start_time,
                timings_dict=timings_dict,
            )
            return output_dict
        except Exception as e:
            self.logger.error(f"An error occurred: {e}")
            return JSONResponse({"error": str(e)}, status_code=500)

    def encode_chunks(self, chunks: List[str], dataType: str) -> Tensor:
        # Add prefix to the chunks based on the dataType
        if dataType == "passage":
            chunks = [f"{self.passage_prefix} {text}".strip() for text in chunks]
        elif dataType == "query":
            chunks = [f"{self.query_prefix} {text}".strip() for text in chunks]

        # Tokenization
        tokenized_texts = self.tokenizer(
            chunks,
            max_length=512,
            padding=True,
            truncation=True,
            return_tensors="pt",
        )

        # Encoding (Model Specific Please check the model documentation)
        with torch.inference_mode():
            # Vectorization
            model_output = self.model(**tokenized_texts)
            embeddings = self.cls_pooling(model_output.last_hidden_state)
            embeddings = F.normalize(embeddings, p=2, dim=1)
        return embeddings

    def create_output_dict(
        self,
        spans: List[List[int]],
        vectors: Tensor,
        chunks: Optional[List[str]],
        include_text_chunks: bool = False,
    ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        vectors = self.format_vectors(vectors=vectors, chunks_len=len(chunks))
        output_dict = {
            "spans": spans,
            "vectors": vectors,
        }
        if include_text_chunks:
            output_dict["chunks"] = chunks
        return {
            "chunkedData": json.dumps(output_dict),
        }

    @staticmethod
    def format_vectors(vectors: Tensor, chunks_len: int) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
        vectors = vectors if chunks_len > 1 else [vectors]
        # Convert the tensor to a list of dictionaries
        formatted_vectors = []
        for vector in vectors:
            formatted_vectors.append({"vector": vector.squeeze().tolist()})
        return formatted_vectors

    @staticmethod
    def cls_pooling(encoded: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
        return encoded[:, 0, :]

    @staticmethod
    def chunk_text(text: str) -> List[str]:
        separator = "\n\n" if text.count("\n\n") > 0 else "\n"
        # Initialize the text splitter
        text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(
            separator=separator,
            chunk_size=512,
            chunk_overlap=0,
            length_function=len,
        )
        # Split the text into chunks
        chunks = text_splitter.split_text(text)
        return chunks

    @staticmethod
    def get_chunk_spans(text: str, chunks: List[str]) -> List[List[int]]:
        # Initialize spans list
        spans = []
        for chunk in chunks:
            start = text.find(chunk)
            end = start + len(chunk)
            spans.append([start, end])
        return spans

    @staticmethod
    def quantize_vectors(embeddings: Tensor) -> Tensor:
        min_val = torch.min(embeddings, dim=1, keepdim=True).values
        max_val = torch.max(embeddings, dim=1, keepdim=True).values
        scale = (max_val - min_val).clamp(min=1e-8)
        normalized = (embeddings - min_val) / scale
        # Makes signed byte compatible
        quantized = normalized * 255 - 128
        quantized = torch.round(quantized).clamp(-128, 127).to(torch.int8)
        return quantized


    @staticmethod
    def obj_to_bool(s: Any) -> bool:
        if isinstance(s, bool):
            return s
        elif isinstance(s, int):
            return s != 0
        elif isinstance(s, str):
            return str(s).strip().lower() == "true"
        else:
            return False

    def log_response_timings(
        self,
        action_name: str,
        start_time: float,
        timings_dict: Optional[Dict[str, float]] = None,
    ) -> None:
        timings_str = (
            f"Time taken to {action_name} input: {(time() - start_time) * 1000:.1f}ms"
        )
        if timings_dict is not None:
            timings_dict_str = {}
            previous_time = start_time
            for k, v in timings_dict.items():
                timings_dict_str[k] = f"{(v - previous_time) * 1000:.1f}ms"
                previous_time = v
            timings_str += f" {timings_dict_str}"
        self.logger.info(timings_str)

    async def __call__(self, http_request: Request) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        try:
            input_dict: Dict[str, Any] = await http_request.json()
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            body_bytes = await http_request.body()
            try:
                decoded = body_bytes.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
                input_dict = json.loads(decoded)
            except json.JSONDecodeError:
                return JSONResponse({"error": "Invalid JSON"}, status_code=400)
        return self.main(input_dict=input_dict)


app = Deployment.bind()

In the preceding code, logging has been added for debugging purposes.The preceding code example contains the following functions:

__call__ This function is non-negotiable.
__init__ The __init__ function is where models, tokenizers, vectorizers, and the like should be set to self for invoking. It is recommended that you include your model’s trained parameters directly into the Docker container rather than reaching out to external storage inside __init__.
main The main function is where the field or query that is passed from Fusion to the model is processed. Alternatively, you can process this in the call function but it is cleaner not to. The main function can handle any text processing needed for the model to accept input invoked in its model.predict() or equivalent function which gets the expected model result.

The model’s return value must be a dictionary with a key named response. The value associated with this key must be a JSON string. When parsed, this JSON string is a dictionary that contains two primary keys:

spans: A list of lists, where each inner list represents [start_index, end_index] pairs for each text chunk
vectors: A list of dictionaries. Each dictionary in this list must have a key named vector, and the value is a list of numbers representing an embedding vector with the shape of (1, DIM), where DIM (vector dimension) is a consistent integer. This format is required for the Local Chunker Index Stage to handle the vector encoding.

If the output needs additional manipulation, that should be done before the result is returned.

Use the exact name of the class when naming this file. In the preceding example, the Python file is named deployment.py and the class name is Deployment().

Create a Dockerfile

The next step is to create a Dockerfile. The Dockerfile should follow this general outline; read the comments for additional details:

#It is important that python version is 3.x-slim
FROM python:3.10-slim

# Install dependencies
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y wget

# Create working app directory
RUN mkdir -p /app
WORKDIR /app

# Copy the requirements file and install the dependencies
COPY requirements.txt /app
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt --no-cache-dir

# Copy source code
COPY deployment.py /app

# Expose serving port for HTTP communication with Fusion
EXPOSE 8000

# The end of the command follows module:application and the below value should be set in the RAY DEPLOYMENT IMPORT PATH field in 'Create Ray Model Deployment' job
CMD exec serve run deployment:app

Create a requirements file

The requirements.txt file is a list of installs for the Dockerfile to run to ensure the Docker container has the right resources to run the model. For the snowflake-arctic-embed-xs model, the requirements are as follows:

torch==2.6.0 -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html
transformers==4.51.3
ray[serve]==2.46.0
loguru=0.7.2

Any recent ray[serve] version should work, but the tested value and known supported version for Fusion 5.9.14 is 2.46.0. In general, if an item was used in an import statement in your Python file, it should be included in the requirements file. Check your Fusion version’s release notes for the tested and verified version of ray[serve].To populate the requirements, use the following command in the terminal, inside the directory that contains your code:

pip freeze > requirements.txt

Build and push the Docker image

After creating the deployment.py, Dockerfile, and requirements.txt files, you need to run a few Docker commands. Run the following commands in order:

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build . -t [DOCKERHUB-USERNAME]/[REPOSITORY]:[VERSION-TAG]

docker push [DOCKERHUB USERNAME]/[REPOSITORY]:[VERSION-TAG]

Using the example model, the terminal commands would be as follows:

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build . -t jstrmec/ray-chunking-snowflake-arctic-embed-xs:0.1

docker push jstrmec/ray-chunking-snowflake-arctic-embed-xs:0.1

This repository is public and you can visit it here: ray-chunking-snowflake-arctic-embed-xs

Create the query model

The chunking is complex and does a lot of particular things. To stabilize your Fusion environment and to simplify indexing and querying, this tutorial creates a separate model for querying. The query model code goes into less detail.A real instance of this class with the snowflake-arctic-embed-xs model is as follows:

"""
Example is based on:
    - https://huggingface.co/Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-xs
    - https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/serve/getting_started.html
"""

import json
import sys
from time import time
from typing import Any, Dict, Optional

import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from ray import serve
from starlette.requests import Request
from starlette.responses import JSONResponse
from torch import Tensor
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

HUB_MODEL_NAME = "Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-xs"
# Truncate to 150k characters to avoid timeout errors from model
CHAR_TRUNCATION = 150_000

@serve.deployment(num_replicas=1, ray_actor_options={"num_cpus": 1})
class Deployment():
    def __init__(self):
        from loguru import logger

        # Initializing logger
        self.logger = logger
        self.logger.remove()
        self.logger.add(sys.stdout, level="INFO", serialize=False, colorize=True)

        # Initializing model
        self.logger.info("Loading model...")
        self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(HUB_MODEL_NAME)
        self.model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(HUB_MODEL_NAME)
        self.model.eval()
        self.logger.info("Model initialization finished!")
        # snowflake-arctic-embed-xs specific prefix (NOT for other models)
        self.query_prefix = "Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages:"
        self.passage_prefix = ""

    @staticmethod
    def quantize_vectors(embeddings: Tensor) -> Tensor:
        min_val = torch.min(embeddings, dim=1, keepdim=True).values
        max_val = torch.max(embeddings, dim=1, keepdim=True).values
        scale = (max_val - min_val).clamp(min=1e-8)
        normalized = (embeddings - min_val) / scale
        # Makes signed byte compatible
        quantized = normalized * 255 - 128
        quantized = torch.round(quantized).clamp(-128, 127).to(torch.int8)
        return quantized

    def encode(self, input_dict: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        try:
            timings_dict = {}
            _start_time = time()

            # Extracting text from input
            text = input_dict.get("text", None)
            validated_text = self.validate_and_truncate_text(text)
            if isinstance(validated_text, JSONResponse):
                return validated_text
            text = validated_text

            # Check DataType if it is passage or query
            # and add prefix accordingly
            dataType = input_dict.get("dataType", None)
            if dataType == "passage":
                text = f"{self.passage_prefix} {text}".strip()
            elif dataType == "query":
                text = f"{self.query_prefix} {text}".strip()
            # Check if quantization is set
            quantize_bool = self.obj_to_bool(input_dict.get("quantize", False))

            # Tokenization
            tokenized_texts = self.tokenizer(
                text,
                max_length=512,
                padding=True,
                truncation=True,
                return_tensors="pt",
            )
            timings_dict["tokenizing_time"] = time()

            # Encoding
            with torch.inference_mode():
                # Forward pass of the model
                model_output = self.model(**tokenized_texts)
                embeddings = self.cls_pooling(model_output.last_hidden_state)
                timings_dict["encoding_time"] = time()

                # Normalizing embeddings
                embeddings = F.normalize(embeddings, p=2, dim=1)
                timings_dict["normalizing_time"] = time()

                # Check if quantization is set
                if quantize_bool:
                    # Quantize the embeddings
                    embeddings = self.quantize_vectors(embeddings)
                    timings_dict["quantizing_time"] = time()

                # Converting into output format
                output_dict = {"vector": embeddings.squeeze().tolist()}

                self.log_response_timings(
                    action_name="encode_via_ray",
                    start_time=_start_time,
                    timings_dict=timings_dict,
                )
                return output_dict
        except Exception as e:
            self.logger.error(f"An error occurred: {e}")
            return JSONResponse({"error": str(e)}, status_code=500)

    def validate_and_truncate_text(self, text: Optional[str]) -> str | JSONResponse:
        if text is None:
            self.logger.error("No text provided in the input dictionary.")
            return JSONResponse(
                {"error": "No `text` input key provided"}, status_code=400
            )
        elif text.isspace() or len(text) == 0:
            self.logger.warning("Empty text provided. Returning empty output.")
            return JSONResponse({"error": "No text provided"}, status_code=400)
        elif len(text) > CHAR_TRUNCATION:
            self.logger.warning(
                f"Input text truncated to {CHAR_TRUNCATION} characters "
                f"to avoid Fusion stage timeout errors."
            )
            return text[:CHAR_TRUNCATION]
        return text

    @staticmethod
    def cls_pooling(encoded: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
        return encoded[:, 0, :]

    @staticmethod
    def obj_to_bool(s: Any) -> bool:
        if isinstance(s, bool):
            return s
        elif isinstance(s, int):
            return s != 0
        elif isinstance(s, str):
            return str(s).strip().lower() == "true"
        else:
            return False

    def log_response_timings(
        self,
        action_name: str,
        start_time: float,
        timings_dict: Optional[Dict[str, float]] = None,
    ) -> None:
        timings_str = (
            f"Time taken to {action_name} input: {(time() - start_time) * 1000:.1f}ms"
        )
        if timings_dict is not None:
            timings_dict_str = {}
            previous_time = start_time
            for k, v in timings_dict.items():
                timings_dict_str[k] = f"{(v - previous_time) * 1000:.1f}ms"
                previous_time = v
            timings_str += f" {timings_dict_str}"
        self.logger.info(timings_str)

    async def __call__(self, http_request: Request) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        try:
            input_dict: Dict[str, Any] = await http_request.json()
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            body_bytes = await http_request.body()
            try:
                decoded = body_bytes.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
                input_dict = json.loads(decoded)
            except json.JSONDecodeError:
                return JSONResponse({"error": "Invalid JSON"}, status_code=400)
        return self.encode(input_dict=input_dict)

app = Deployment.bind()

This code pulls from Hugging Face. To have the model load in the image without pulling from Hugging Face or other external sources, download the model weights into a folder name and change the model name to the folder name preceded by ./.

This repository is public and you can visit it here: ray-snowflake-arctic-embed-xs

Deploy the models in Fusion

Now you can go to Fusion to deploy your model. You must deploy the indexing model and the querying model.

In Fusion, navigate to Collections > Jobs.
Add a job by clicking the Add+ Button and selecting Create Ray Model Deployment.

Fill in each of the text fields. Chunking will need a higher memory and CPU limit requirement than the default:

Parameter	Description
Job ID	A string used by the Fusion API to reference the job after its creation.
Model name	A name for the deployed model. This is used to generate the deployment name in Ray. It is also the name that you reference as a `model-id` when making predictions with the ML Service.
Model min replicas	The minimum number of load-balanced replicas of the model to deploy.
Model max replicas	The maximum number of load-balanced replicas of the model to deploy. Specify multiple replicas for a higher-volume intake.
Model CPU limit	The number of CPUs to allocate to a single model replica.
Model memory limit	The maximum amount of memory to allocate to a single model replica.
Ray Deployment Import Path	The path to your top-level Ray Serve deployment (or the same path passed to `serve run`). For example, `deployment:app`.
Docker Repository	The public or private repository where the Docker image is located. If you’re using Docker Hub, fill in the Docker Hub username here.
Image name	The name of the image. For example, `ray-chunking-snowflake-arctic-embed-xs:0.1`.
Kubernetes secret	If you’re using a private repository, supply the name of the Kubernetes secret used for access.

Click Advanced to view and configure advanced details:

Parameter	Description
Additional parameters	This section lets you enter parameter `name:parameter` value options to be injected into the training JSON map at runtime. The values are inserted as they are entered, so you must surround string values with `"`. This is the `sparkConfig` field in the configuration file.
Write Options	This section lets you enter parameter `name:parameter` value options to use when writing output to Solr or other sources. This is the `writeOptions` field in the configuration file.
Read Options	This section lets you enter parameter `name:parameter` value options to use when reading input from Solr or other sources. This is the `readOptions` field in the configuration file.

Click Save, then Run and Start.
Repeat these steps for the querying model.

When the job finishes successfully, you can proceed to the next section.Now that the models are in Fusion, you can use them in the Machine Learning or Ray / Seldon Vectorize index and query stages.

Configure the Fusion pipelines

Your real-world pipeline configuration depends on your use case and model, but for our example we will configure the index pipeline and then the query pipeline.

Configure the index pipeline

The index pipeline requires at least two additional stages: the Machine Learning stage and the Local Chunker stage.Create the Machine Learning stage first. To create the Machine Learning stage:

Create a new index pipeline or load an existing one for editing.
Click Add a Stage and then Machine Learning.

In the new Machine Learning stage, fill in these fields:

The model ID

The model input

var modelInput = new java.util.HashMap()
var text = doc.getFirstFieldValue("embedding_t");
modelInput.put("text", text)
modelInput.put("dataType","passage")
modelInput.put("quantize", "false") // if this is true it must be true on query-side too
modelInput.put("include_text_chunks", "true")
modelInput

The model output

context.put("chunkedData",  modelOutput.get("response"));

Save the stage.

To create the Local Chunker stage:

In the same existing index pipeline, click Add a Stage and then Local Chunker.
In the new stage, fill in these fields: ** The Input Context Variable is <ctx.chunkedData> ** The Destination Field Name and Context Output is ray_chunk_vector_384v

Configure the query pipeline

The query pipeline requires at least two additional stages: the Chunking Neural Hybrid Query stage and either the Machine Learning stage with a context key vector or the Ray/Seldon Vectorize Query stage. If you followed the full tutorial, use the Machine Learning stage.To set up the Machine Learning query stage:

Create a new query pipeline or load an existing one for editing.
Click Add a Stage and then Machine Learning.

In the new stage, fill in these fields:

The model ID

The model input as shown below:

var modelInput = new java.util.HashMap()
var text = request.getFirstParam("q")
modelInput.put("text", text)
modelInput.put("dataType", "query")
modelInput.put("quantize", "false")  // should only be true if done on index-side too
modelInput

The model output as shown below:

context.put("vector", modelOutput.get("vector").toString());

To set up the Chunking Neural Hybrid Query stage:

In the same existing query pipeline, click Add a Stage and then Chunking Neural Hybrid Query.
In the new stage, fill in the required fields.

You have now successfully uploaded indexing and querying Ray models to Fusion and deployed it, and you are now ready to query. If you are getting the same results every time you query, double check that your vectors are correct and check that the chunking query parsers are defined in your solrconfig.xml file as described in the prerequisites of this tutorial.

Accepted format

The Local Chunker stage accepts data formatted in a specific format:

{
    "chunkedData": "{\"spans\": [[0, 13]], \"vectors\": [{\"vector\": [171, 167, 127, 148, 141...]}], \"chunks\": [\"I love Fusion\"]}"
}

You can obtain this format by converting a response such as the following to a single JSON string and use that converted response as the value to chunkedData’s key:

{
"spans": [
        [ 0,13]
    ],
"vectors": [
        {"vector": [171, 167, 127, 148, 141...]}
    ],
"chunks": [
  "I love Fusion"
  ]
}

To use the local chunker stage, add the following to your solrConfig.xml file:

<!-- FUSION NOTES: These query parsers are used with Solr-based vector search -->
<queryParser name="xvecSim" class="org.apache.solr.lwbackported.XVecSimQParserPlugin"/>
<queryParser name="_lw_chunk_wrap" class="org.apache.solr.lw.ParentAndAllKidsWrapperQParserPlugin"/>
<queryParser name="neuralHybrid" class="org.apache.solr.lw.NeuralHybridQParserPlugin"/>

Vector definitions

Add the following vector definitions to your managed-schema.xml file:

<!-- Vector search fields -->
<dynamicField docValues="false" indexed="true" multiValued="false" name="*_64v" stored="true" type="knn_64_vector"/>
<dynamicField docValues="false" indexed="true" multiValued="false" name="*_128v" stored="true" type="knn_128_vector"/>
<dynamicField docValues="false" indexed="true" multiValued="false" name="*_256v" stored="true" type="knn_256_vector"/>
<dynamicField docValues="false" indexed="true" multiValued="false" name="*_384v" stored="true" type="knn_384_vector"/>
<dynamicField docValues="false" indexed="true" multiValued="false" name="*_512v" stored="true" type="knn_512_vector"/>
<dynamicField docValues="false" indexed="true" multiValued="false" name="*_768v" stored="true" type="knn_768_vector"/>
<dynamicField docValues="false" indexed="true" multiValued="false" name="*_1024v" stored="true" type="knn_1024_vector"/>

<!-- Field Types to support vector search -->
<fieldType class="solr.DenseVectorField" hnswBeamWidth="200" hnswMaxConnections="45" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" name="knn_64_vector" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorDimension="64"/>
<fieldType class="solr.DenseVectorField" hnswBeamWidth="200" hnswMaxConnections="45" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" name="knn_128_vector" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorDimension="128"/>
<fieldType class="solr.DenseVectorField" hnswBeamWidth="200" hnswMaxConnections="45" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" name="knn_256_vector" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorDimension="256"/>
<fieldType class="solr.DenseVectorField" hnswBeamWidth="200" hnswMaxConnections="45" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" name="knn_384_vector" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorDimension="384"/>
<fieldType class="solr.DenseVectorField" hnswBeamWidth="200" hnswMaxConnections="45" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" name="knn_512_vector" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorDimension="512"/>
<fieldType class="solr.DenseVectorField" hnswBeamWidth="200" hnswMaxConnections="45" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" name="knn_768_vector" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorDimension="768"/>
<fieldType class="solr.DenseVectorField" hnswBeamWidth="200" hnswMaxConnections="45" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" name="knn_1024_vector" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorDimension="1024"/>

<!-- INCOMPATIBLE with versions before 5.9.13 -->
<!-- BYTE Vector search fields -->
<dynamicField name="*_64bv" type="knn_64_byte_vector" indexed="true" stored="true" docValues="false" multiValued="false"/>
<dynamicField name="*_128bv" type="knn_128_byte_vector" indexed="true" stored="true" docValues="false" multiValued="false"/>
<dynamicField name="*_256bv" type="knn_256_byte_vector" indexed="true" stored="true" docValues="false" multiValued="false"/>
<dynamicField name="*_384bv" type="knn_384_byte_vector" indexed="true" stored="true" docValues="false" multiValued="false"/>
<dynamicField name="*_512bv" type="knn_512_byte_vector" indexed="true" stored="true" docValues="false" multiValued="false"/>
<dynamicField name="*_768bv" type="knn_768_byte_vector" indexed="true" stored="true" docValues="false" multiValued="false"/>
<dynamicField name="*_1024bv" type="knn_1024_byte_vector" indexed="true" stored="true" docValues="false" multiValued="false"/>
<!-- BYTE Field Types to support vector search -->
<fieldType name="knn_64_byte_vector" class="solr.DenseVectorField" vectorDimension="64" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorEncoding="BYTE" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" hnswMaxConnections="45" hnswBeamWidth="200"/>
<fieldType name="knn_128_byte_vector" class="solr.DenseVectorField" vectorDimension="128" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorEncoding="BYTE" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" hnswMaxConnections="45" hnswBeamWidth="200"/>
<fieldType name="knn_256_byte_vector" class="solr.DenseVectorField" vectorDimension="256" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorEncoding="BYTE" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" hnswMaxConnections="45" hnswBeamWidth="200"/>
<fieldType name="knn_384_byte_vector" class="solr.DenseVectorField" vectorDimension="384" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorEncoding="BYTE" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" hnswMaxConnections="45" hnswBeamWidth="200"/>
<fieldType name="knn_512_byte_vector" class="solr.DenseVectorField" vectorDimension="512" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorEncoding="BYTE" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" hnswMaxConnections="45" hnswBeamWidth="200"/>
<fieldType name="knn_768_byte_vector" class="solr.DenseVectorField" vectorDimension="768" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorEncoding="BYTE" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" hnswMaxConnections="45" hnswBeamWidth="200"/>
<fieldType name="knn_1024_byte_vector" class="solr.DenseVectorField" vectorDimension="1024" similarityFunction="cosine" vectorEncoding="BYTE" knnAlgorithm="hnsw" hnswMaxConnections="45" hnswBeamWidth="200"/>

JavaScript to transform JSON to a string

If you are returning JSON from the API, use the following code sample to pass the JSON response to the Local Chunker stage.

var api_json_response = ctx.get("api_response")["response"]
var stringified_api_response = JSON.stringify(api_json_response)
ctx.put(“chunkedData”, stringified_api_response)

Configuration

When entering configuration values in the UI, use unescaped characters, such as \t for the tab character. When entering configuration values in the API, use escaped characters, such as \t for the tab character.

Introduction to Fusion

Getting Data In

Getting Data Out

Operations

Reference

Developer Docs

Neural Hybrid Search

Release Notes

Prerequisites

Tips

Local testing example

Download the model and choose a chunking strategy

Create the index model

Create a Dockerfile

Create a requirements file

Build and push the Docker image

Create the query model

Deploy the models in Fusion

Configure the Fusion pipelines

Configure the index pipeline

Configure the query pipeline

Accepted format

Vector definitions

JavaScript to transform JSON to a string

Configuration

Introduction to Fusion

Getting Data In

Getting Data Out

Operations

Reference

Developer Docs

Neural Hybrid Search

Release Notes

​Accepted format

​Vector definitions

​JavaScript to transform JSON to a string

​Configuration

Accepted format

Vector definitions

JavaScript to transform JSON to a string

Configuration