v0.2.3

What's Changed

• Check for existing files in cache dir before instantiating a model by @nleroy917 in #128

New Models

• feat: Support sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 by @geetu040 in #129
• feat: Added gte-large, nomic-text 1.5, cleanup by @Anush008 in #130
• Add Splade v1 by @NirantK in #144

Experiments, Docs, Notebooks

• Add attention export functionality to experiments by @NirantK in #134
• Hindi RAG with Qdrant and FastEmbed by @NirantK in #135
• Getting Started Improvements by @NirantK in #138
• Fix link to Optimum in docs by @jamert in #143

New Contributors

• @geetu040 made their first contribution in #129
• @nleroy917 made their first contribution in #128
• @jamert made their first contribution in #143

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.2.3

v0.2.2

What's Changed

• docs: Describe how to change the model and how to just create embeddings by @KShivendu in #112
• Add import statement to the warning message by @NirantK in #119
• feat: Added nomic-embed-text-v1 support + formatting changes + import fixes by @Anush008 in #118
• Releases Nomic Embedding models by @NirantK in #124

Full Changelog: v0.2.1...v0.2.2

v0.2.1

What's Changed

• Simplify imports: #110 by @Okabe-Rintarou-0 in #113
• Fix query to align with Qdrant mixin usage by @NirantK in #115
• Make 0.2.1 Release + Update docs by @NirantK in #116

New Contributors

• @Okabe-Rintarou-0 made their first contribution in #113

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1

v0.2.0

What's Changed

• use "with" to open JSON files by @dpjanes in #96
• HuggingFace download support for FlagEmbedding by @Anush008 in #94
  • chore: patch for new Xenova Jina source by @Anush008 in #102
• feat: Support xenova/multilingual-e5-large, xenova/paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 by @Anush008 in #103
• Refactoring of internal structure by @generall in #105
• Refactor: Introduce experiments dir, README changes by @KShivendu in #108, #109
• Support Python v3.12 by @NirantK in #93, #111

New Contributors

• @dpjanes made their first contribution in #96
• @KShivendu made their first contribution in #108

Full Changelog: v0.1.3...v0.2.0

Dependency and Usability Improvements

What's Changed

• Add huggingface-hub dependency by @NirantK in #66
• add JinaEmbeddings class by @JoanFM in #67
• feat: Added support for FASTEMBED_CACHE_PATH env var by @Anush008 in #68
• chore: bump tokenizers by @Anush008 in #75
• feat: embedding progress bar by @Anush008 in #71

New Contributors

• @do-me made their first contribution in #44
• @JoanFM made their first contribution in #67
• @Anush008 made their first contribution in #68

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.1.2

0.1.0

What's Changed

• New Models: Add support for v1.5 models by @NirantK in #25
• Throughput Improvement: Implement data-parallel inference by @generall in #24 — skipped for single query inference

Full Changelog: 0.0.5...0.1.0

0.0.5 Release: New model additions, remove transformers dependency, fix tokenizer bug

What's Changed

• Remove bulky transformers and torch dependencies, directly uses tokenizer fix errors by @generall in #13
• New models supported:
  • sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
  • intfloat/multilingual-e5-large
• New Supported Models API list_supported_models. Existing models supported:
  • BAAI/bge-small-en
  • BAAI/bge-base-en
• Adding model specific tests beyond DefaultEmbedding
• Removes pooling and directly normalizes the model output

Contributors

• @Rishav-hub made their first contribution in #7
• @generall made their first major contribution in #13

Full Changelog: 0.0.3a1...0.0.5