v0.6.0

Changelog

Features 🏎️

• #427 - introduce LateInteractionMultimodalEmbedding with ColPali-v1.3 by @I8dNLo @joein
• #463 - introduce dense text custom models (use a model which is not supported by fastembed if it follows the same preprocessing pipelines) by @joein
• #428 - add jina embedding v3 model by @hh-space-invader
• #443 - load a model from specific_model_path bypassing hf file structure by @I8dNLo
• #450 - extend type coverage, mark fastembed as typed package (also #451, #453, #454, #457, #458, #459, #460, #461, #464, #469, #470, #472) by @hh-space-invader @joein
• #440 - hide progress bar when a model is in cache by @hh-space-invader
• #455 - update to pillow<12.0.0 by @I8dNLo
• #484 - update to mmh3<6.0.0 by @joein

Fixes 🕸️

• #486 - fix thenlper/gte-large, use mean pooling of token embeddings instead of CLS embedding by @joein
• #436 - fix paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2, do not normalize and use mean pooling of token embeddings instead of CLS embedding by @hh-space-invader
• #445 - fix paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 and intfloat/multilingual-e5-large, do not normalize and use mean pooling of token embeddings instead of CLS embedding by @I8dNLo

Thanks everyone who contributed to the current release!

v0.5.1

Change Log

Fixes 🐛

• #439 - fix python3.13 installation by making onnx an optional dependency, keep onnxruntime mandatory by @joein

v0.5.0

Features 📖

#403 - Drop Python 3.8 support by @joein
#404 - Add Python 3.13 support by @joein
#406 - Improve models cache progress bar by @hh-space-invader
#422 - Add multi-GPU example by @hh-space-invader
#425 - Provide user warning when specifying providers and CUDA by @hh-space-invader

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Models 🧠

#405 - Support jina embeddings v2 models by @hh-space-invader
#408 - Add jina clip v1 model by @hh-space-invader
#415 - Added support for the thenlper/gte-base model by @hh-space-invader
#419 - Introduced parallel processing and pair-wise API for cross-encoders by @I8dNLo
#429 - All models now support Hugging Face (hf) compatibility by @I8dNLo

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Fixes 🐛

#413 - Fix ColBERT model shape mismatch by @hh-space-invader

v0.4.2

Change Log

Features 📖

• #380 - add NOTICE file to support models with restrictive licenses by @hh-space-invader @joein
• #362 - unlock numpy v2 by @amietn
• #375 - add jina rerankers by @hh-space-invader

Models 🧠

• #378 - jinaai/jina-colbert-v2 by @hh-space-invader
• #375 - jinaai/jina-reranker-v1-tiny-en, jinaai/jina-reranker-v1-turbo-en, jinaai/jina-reranker-v2-base-multilingual by @hh-space-invader

Fixes 🐛

• #337 - temporarily restrict onnxruntime to <1.20 due to recent problems by @hh-space-invader

v0.4.1

Change Log

Features 📢

• #366 - replace pystemmer with py-rust-stemmers by @I8dNLo

v0.4.0

Change Log

Features 📢

• #355 - add rerankers support by @celinehoang177 @joein @I8dNLo
• #358 - add multi-gpu support by @joein @generall @hh-space-invader
• #364 - add license info to models descriptions by @hh-space-invader

Models 🧠

• #355 - rerankers ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2, ms-marco-MiniLM-L-12-v2, bge-reranker-base by @celinehoang177

Fixes 🐛

• #337 - lowercasing words in bm25 by @n0x29a
• #339 - fix bm25 preprocessing by @I8dNLo
• #340 - fix hanging of the main process when child processes got unexpectedly killed by @hh-space-invader

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the current release
@celinehoang177 @I8dNLo @generall @hh-space-invader @n0x29a @joein

v0.3.5

Change Log

Features 📢

• #315 - accept PIL images as input in image models by @I8dNLo

Models 🧠

• #301 - jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-code by @Anush008
• #318 - added a set of new languages to BM25 @I8dNLo
• #330 - answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1 by @I8dNLo

Fixes 🐛

• #319 - fix cutting model_max_length down in the case of context windows larger than 512 by @I8dNLo

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the current release
@I8dNLo @Anush008 @mrscoopers

v0.3.4

0.3.4

Features 🪄

• #291 - Add Unicom models by @I8dNLo
• #293 - Add retry logic for model downloading by @joein

Bug fixes 🦟

• #280 - Fix pooling for nomic models by @I8dNLo

v0.3.1

What's Changed

Features

• Add support for jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-de by @deichrenner in #270
• Add BM25 by @joein in #274

Fixes

• Fix None cache directory in parallel mode by @joein in #277
• Fix hybrid search example for pydantic v1 by @joein in #263
• Fix MiniLM by @I8dNLo in #275
• Fix parameter propagation in parallel mode, fix bm42 parallel by @joein in #274
• Pin Numpy <2 by @Anush008 in #278

Docs

• Replace Data Source by @NirantK in #206
• Add examples with supported type of models into readme by @generall in #271

New Contributors

• @deichrenner made their first contribution in #270. Thank you.

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.3.1

v0.3.0

Changelog

Features 🪄

• #219 support for ImageEmbedding by @joein
• #219 CLIP image and text embeddings by @joein
• #246 Resnet50 by @I8dNLo
• #248 support for late interaction embeddings (ColBERT) by @joein
• #235 Bm42 (sparse embeddings with attention) by @generall

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Fixes 🪛

• #250 #244 unlock huggingface-hub, tokenizers and ruff dependencies, allow versions <1.0 by @joein

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Full Changelog: v0.2.7...v0.3.0