When an invalid model is set for embeddings, topics do not load even if embeddings is disabled.
Error:
## RuntimeError in TopicsController#show
Invalid embeddings selected model
This commit checks for valid settings before attempting to load related topics.
* FEATURE: Experimental search results from an AI Persona.
When a user searches discourse, we'll send the query to an AI Persona to provide additional context and enrich the results. The feature depends on the user being a member of a group to which the persona has access.
* Update assets/stylesheets/common/ai-blinking-animation.scss
Co-authored-by: Keegan George <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Keegan George <[email protected]>
From [pgvector/pgvector](https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector) README
> With approximate indexes, filtering is applied after the index is scanned. If a condition matches 10% of rows, with HNSW and the default hnsw.ef_search of 40, only 4 rows will match on average. For more rows, increase hnsw.ef_search.
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> Starting with 0.8.0, you can enable [iterative index scans](https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector#iterative-index-scans), which will automatically scan more of the index when needed.
Since we are stuck on 0.7.0 we are going the first option for now.
Before this change, we let you set the embeddings selected model back to " " even with embeddings enabled. This will leave the site in a broken state.
Additionally, it adds a fail-safe for these scenarios to avoid errors on the topics page.
* Use AR model for embeddings features
* endpoints
* Embeddings CRUD UI
* Add presets. Hide a couple more settings
* system specs
* Seed embedding definition from old settings
* Generate search bit index on the fly. cleanup orphaned data
* support for seeded models
* Fix run test for new embedding
* fix selected model not set correctly
This commit adds an "unavailable" state for the AI semantic search toggle. Currently the AI toggle disappears when the sort by is anything but Relevance which makes the UI confusing for users looking for AI results. This should help!
In a previous refactor, we moved the responsibility of querying and storing embeddings into the `Schema` class. Now, it's time for embedding generation.
The motivation behind these changes is to isolate vector characteristics in simple objects to later replace them with a DB-backed version, similar to what we did with LLM configs.
* REFACTOR: A Simpler way of interacting with embeddings' tables.
This change adds a new abstraction called `Schema`, which acts as a repository that supports the same DB features `VectorRepresentation::Base` has, with the exception that removes the need to have duplicated methods per embeddings table.
It is also a bit more flexible when performing a similarity search because you can pass it a block that gives you access to the builder, allowing you to add multiple joins/where conditions.
We are adding a new method for generating and storing embeddings in bulk, which relies on `Concurrent::Promises::Future`. Generating an embedding consists of three steps:
Prepare text
HTTP call to retrieve the vector
Save to DB.
Each one is independently executed on whatever thread the pool gives us.
We are bringing a custom thread pool instead of the global executor since we want control over how many threads we spawn to limit concurrency. We also avoid firing thousands of HTTP requests when working with large batches.
Two changes worth mentioning:
`#instance` returns a fully configured embedding endpoint ready to use.
All endpoints respond to the same method and have the same signature - `perform!(text)`
This makes it easier to reuse them when generating embeddings in bulk.
This changeset contains 4 fixes:
1. We were allowing running tests on unsaved tools,
this is problematic cause uploads are not yet associated or indexed
leading to confusing results. We now only show the test button when
tool is saved.
2. We were not properly scoping rag document fragements, this
meant that personas and ai tools could get results from other
unrelated tools, just to be filtered out later
3. index.search showed options as "optional" but implementation
required the second option
4. When testing tools searching through document fragments was
not working at all cause we did not properly load the tool
* FIX: Llm selector / forced tools / search tool
This fixes a few issues:
1. When search was not finding any semantic results we would break the tool
2. Gemin / Anthropic models did not implement forced tools previously despite it being an API option
3. Mechanics around displaying llm selector were not right. If you disabled LLM selector server side persona PM did not work correctly.
4. Disabling native tools for anthropic model moved out of a site setting. This deliberately does not migrate cause this feature is really rare to need now, people who had it set probably did not need it.
5. Updates anthropic model names to latest release
* linting
* fix a couple of tests I missed
* clean up conditional
On very large sites, the rare cache misses for Related Topics can take around 200ms, which affects our p99 metric on the topic page. In order to mitigate this impact, we now have several tools at our disposal.
First, one is to migrate the index embedding type from halfvec to bit and change the related topic query to leverage the new bit index by changing the search algorithm from inner product to Hamming distance. This will reduce our index sizes by 90%, severely reducing the impact of embeddings on our storage. By making the related query a bit smarter, we can have zero impact on recall by using the index to over-capture N*2 results, then re-ordering those N*2 using the full halfvec vectors and taking the top N. The expected impact is to go from 200ms to <20ms for cache misses and from a 2.5GB index to a 250MB index on a large site.
Another tool is migrating our index type from IVFFLAT to HNSW, which can increase the cache misses performance even further, eventually putting us in the under 5ms territory.
Co-authored-by: Roman Rizzi <[email protected]>
Polymorphic RAG means that we will be able to access RAG fragments both from AiPersona and AiCustomTool
In turn this gives us support for richer RAG implementations.
Keegan George
Rafael dos Santos Silva
Natalie Tay
Alan Guo Xiang Tan
Mark VanLandingham
Sam