Tensor search for humans.
An open-source tensor search engine that seamlessly integrates with your applications, websites, and workflow.
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Tensor search involves transforming documents, images and other data into collections of vectors called "tensors". Representing data as tensors allows us to match queries against documents with human-like understanding of the query and document's content. Tensor search can power a variety of use cases such as:
- end user search and recommendations
- multi-modal search (image-to-image, text-to-image, image-to-text)
- chat bots and question and answer systems
- text and image classification
- Marqo requires docker. To install Docker go to the Docker Official website.
- Use docker to run Marqo (Mac users with M-series chips will need to go here):
docker rm -f marqo;
docker pull marqoai/marqo:0.0.5;
docker run --name marqo -it --privileged -p 8882:8882 --add-host host.docker.internal:host-gateway marqoai/marqo:0.0.5
- Install the Marqo client:
pip install marqo
- Start indexing and searching! Let's look at a simple example below:
import marqo
mq = marqo.Client(url='http://localhost:8882')
mq.index("my-first-index").add_documents([
{
"Title": "The Travels of Marco Polo",
"Description": "A 13th-century travelogue describing Polo's travels"
},
{
"Title": "Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU)",
"Description": "The EMU is a spacesuit that provides environmental protection, "
"mobility, life support, and communications for astronauts",
"_id": "article_591"
}]
)
results = mq.index("my-first-index").search(
q="What is the best outfit to wear on the moon?"
)
mq
is the client that wraps themarqo
APIadd_documents()
takes a list of documents, represented as python dicts, for indexingadd_documents()
creates an index with default settings, if one does not already exist- You can optionally set a document's ID with the special
_id
field. Otherwise, Marqo will generate one. - If the index doesn't exist, Marqo will create it. If it exists then Marqo will add the documents to the index.
Let's have a look at the results:
# let's print out the results:
import pprint
pprint.pprint(results)
{
'hits': [
{
'Title': 'Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU)',
'Description': 'The EMU is a spacesuit that provides environmental protection, mobility, life support, and'
'communications for astronauts',
'_highlights': {
'Description': 'The EMU is a spacesuit that provides environmental protection, '
'mobility, life support, and communications for astronauts'
},
'_id': 'article_591',
'_score': 0.61938936
},
{
'Title': 'The Travels of Marco Polo',
'Description': "A 13th-century travelogue describing Polo's travels",
'_highlights': {'Title': 'The Travels of Marco Polo'},
'_id': 'e00d1a8d-894c-41a1-8e3b-d8b2a8fce12a',
'_score': 0.60237324
}
],
'limit': 10,
'processingTimeMs': 49,
'query': 'What is the best outfit to wear on the moon?'
}
- Each hit corresponds to a document that matched the search query
- They are ordered from most to least matching
limit
is the maximum number of hits to be returned. This can be set as a parameter during search- Each hit has a
_highlights
field. This was the part of the document that matched the query the best
Retrieve a document by ID.
result = mq.index("my-first-index").get_document(document_id="article_591")
Note that by adding the document using add_documents
again using the same _id
will cause a document to be updated.
Get information about an index.
results = mq.index("my-first-index").get_stats()
Perform a keyword search.
result = mq.index("my-first-index").search('marco polo', search_method=marqo.SearchMethods.LEXICAL)
Using the default tensor search method
result = mq.index("my-first-index").search('adventure', searchable_attributes=['Title'])
Delete documents.
results = mq.index("my-first-index").delete_documents(ids=["article_591", "article_602"])
Delete an index.
results = mq.index("my-first-index").delete()
To power image and text search, Marqo allows users to plug and play with CLIP models from HuggingFace. Note that if you do not configure multi modal search, image urls will be treated as strings. To start indexing and searching with images, first create an index with a CLIP configuration, as below:
settings = {
"treat_urls_and_pointers_as_images":True, # allows us to find an image file and index it
"model":"ViT-L/14"
}
response = mq.create_index("my-multimodal-index", **settings)
Images can then be added within documents as follows. You can use urls from the internet (for example S3) or from the disk of the machine:
response = mq.index("my-multimodal-index").add_documents([{
"My Image": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Portrait_Hippopotamus_in_the_water.jpg/440px-Portrait_Hippopotamus_in_the_water.jpg",
"Description": "The hippopotamus, also called the common hippopotamus or river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa",
"_id": "hippo-facts"
}])
You can then search using text as usual. Both text and image fields will be searched:
results = mq.index("my-multimodal-index").search('animal')
Setting searchable_attributes
to the image field ['My Image']
ensures only images are searched in this index:
results = mq.index("my-multimodal-index").search('animal', searchable_attributes=['My Image'])
Searching using an image can be achieved by providing the image link.
results = mq.index("my-multimodal-index").search('https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Standing_Hippopotamus_MET_DP248993.jpg/440px-Standing_Hippopotamus_MET_DP248993.jpg')
The full documentation for Marqo can be found here https://marqo.pages.dev/.
Note that you should not run other applications on Marqo's Opensearch cluster as Marqo automatically changes and adapts the settings on the cluster.
Marqo does not yet support the docker-in-docker backend configuration for the arm64 architecture. This means that if you have an M series Mac, you will also need to run marqo's backend, marqo-os, locally.
To run Marqo on an M series Mac, follow the next steps.
- In one terminal run the following command to start opensearch:
docker rm -f marqo-os; docker run -p 9200:9200 -p 9600:9600 -e "discovery.type=single-node" marqoai/marqo-os:0.0.2-arm
- In another terminal run the following command to launch Marqo:
docker rm -f marqo; docker run --name marqo --privileged \
-p 8882:8882 --add-host host.docker.internal:host-gateway \
-e "OPENSEARCH_URL=https://localhost:9200" \
marqoai/marqo:0.0.5
Marqo is a community project with the goal of making tensor search accessible to the wider developer community. We are glad that you are interested in helping out! Please read this to get started
- Create a virtual env
python -m venv ./venv
- Activate the virtual environment
source ./venv/bin/activate
- Install requirements from the requirements file:
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Run tests by running the tox file. CD into this dir and then run "tox"
- If you update dependencies, make sure to delete the .tox dir and rerun
- Run the full test suite (by using the command
tox
in this dir). - Create a pull request with an attached github issue.
- Join our Slack community and chat with other community members about ideas.
- Marqo community meetings (coming soon!)