Skip to content

Releases: JohnSnowLabs/spark-nlp

Spark NLP 5.2.0: Introducing a Zero-Shot Image Classification by CLIP, ONNX support for T5, Marian, and CamemBERT, a new Text Splitter annotator, Over 8000 state-of-the-art Transformer Models in ONNX, bug fixes, and more!

08 Dec 22:05
c85c730
Compare
Choose a tag to compare

πŸŽ‰ Celebrating 80 Million Downloads on PyPI - A Spark NLP Milestone! πŸš€

80,000,000 Downloads

We are thrilled to announce that Spark NLP has reached a remarkable milestone of 80 million downloads on PyPI! This achievement is a testament to the strength and dedication of our community.

A heartfelt thank you to each and every one of you who has contributed, used, and supported Spark NLP. Your invaluable feedback, contributions, and enthusiasm have played a crucial role in evolving Spark NLP into an award-winning, production-ready, and scalable open-source NLP library.

As we celebrate this milestone, we're also excited to announce the release of Spark NLP 5.2.0! This new version marks another step forward in our journey, new features, improved performance, bug fixes, and extending our Models Hub to 30,000 open-source and forever free models with 8000 new state-of-the-art language models in 5.2.0 release.

Here's to many more milestones, breakthroughs, and advancements! 🌟


πŸ”₯ New Features & Enhancements

  • NEW: Introducing the CLIPForZeroShotClassification for Zero-Shot Image Classification using OpenAI's CLIP models. CLIP is a state-of-the-art computer vision designed to recognize a specific, pre-defined group of object categories. CLIP is a multi-modal vision and language model. It can be used for Zero-Shot image classification. To achieve this, CLIP utilizes a Vision Transformer (ViT) to extract visual attributes and a causal language model to process text features. These features from both text and images are then mapped to a common latent space having the same dimensions. The similarity score is calculated using the dot product of the projected image and text features in this space.
image

CLIP (Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training) builds on a large body of work on zero-shot transfer, natural language supervision, and multimodal learning. The idea of zero-data learning dates back over a decade but until recently was mostly studied in computer vision as a way of generalizing to unseen object categories. A critical insight was to leverage natural language as a flexible prediction space to enable generalization and transfer. In 2013, Richer Socher and co-authors at Stanford developed a proof of concept by training a model on CIFAR-10 to make predictions in a word vector embedding space and showed this model could predict two unseen classes. The same year DeVISE scaled this approach and demonstrated that it was possible to fine-tune an ImageNet model so that it could generalize to correctly predicting objects outside the original 1000 training set. - CLIP: Connecting text and images

As always, we made this feature super easy and scalable:

image_assembler = ImageAssembler() \
    .setInputCol("image") \
    .setOutputCol("image_assembler")

labels = [
    "a photo of a bird",
    "a photo of a cat",
    "a photo of a dog",
    "a photo of a hen",
    "a photo of a hippo",
    "a photo of a room",
    "a photo of a tractor",
    "a photo of an ostrich",
    "a photo of an ox",
]

image_captioning = CLIPForZeroShotClassification \
    .pretrained() \
    .setInputCols(["image_assembler"]) \
    .setOutputCol("label") \
    .setCandidateLabels(labels)
  • NEW: Introducing the DocumentTokenSplitter which allows users to split large documents into smaller chunks to be used in RAG with LLM models
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in T5Transformer annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in MarianTransformer annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in BertSentenceEmbeddings annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in XlmRoBertaSentenceEmbeddings annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in CamemBertForQuestionAnswering, CamemBertForTokenClassification, and CamemBertForSequenceClassification annotators
  • Adding a caching support for newly imported T5 models in TF format to improve the performance to be competitive to ONNX version
  • Refactor ZIP utility and add new tests for both ZipArchiveUtil and OnnxWrapper thanks to @anqini
  • Refactor ONNX and add OnnxSession to broadcast to improve stability in some cluster setups
  • Update ONNX Runtime to 1.16.3 to enjoy the following features in upcoming releases:
    • Support for serialization of models >=2GB
    • Support for fp16 and bf16 tensors as inputs and outputs
    • Improve LLM quantization accuracy with smoothquant
    • Support 4-bit quantization on CPU
    • Optimize BeamScore to improve BeamSearch performance
    • Add FlashAttention v2 support for Attention, MultiHeadAttention and PackedMultiHeadAttention ops

πŸ› Bug Fixes

  • Fix random dimension mismatch in E5Embeddings and MPNetEmbeddings due to a missing average_pool after last_hidden_state in the output
  • Fix batching exception in E5 and MPNet embeddings annotators failing when sentence is used instead of document
  • Fix chunk construction when an entity is found
  • Fix a bug in library's version in Scala where it was pointing to 5.1.2 wrongly
  • Fix Whisper models not downloading due to wrong library's version
  • Fix and refactor saving best model based on given metrics during NerDL training

ℹ️ Known Issues

  • Some annotators are not yet compatible with Apache Spark and PySpark 3.5.x release. Due to this, we have changed the support matrix for Spark/PySpark 3.5.x to Partially until we are 100% compatible.

πŸ’Ύ Models

Spark NLP 5.2.0 comes with more than 8000+ new state-of-the-art pretrained transformer models in multi-languages.

The complete list of all 30000+ models & pipelines in 230+ languages is available on Models Hub

πŸ““ New Notebooks

Notebooks
Spark NLP Structured Streaming
Zero-Shot Image Classification
Import CLIP model into Spark NLP
Import ONNX CamemBertForQuestionAnswering
Import ONNX CamemBertForSequenceClassification
Import ONNX CamemBertForTokenClassification
Import ONNX XlmRoBertaSentenceEmbeddings
Import ONNX BertSentenceEmbeddings

πŸ“– Documentation


❀️ Community support

  • Slack For live discussion with the Spark NLP community and the team
  • GitHub Bug reports, feature requests, and contributions
  • Discussions Engage with other community members, share ideas,
    and show off how you use Spark NLP!
  • Medium Spark NLP articles
  • JohnSnowLabs official Medium
  • YouTube Spark NLP video tutorials

Installation

Python

#PyPI

pip install spark-nlp==5.2.0

Spark Packages

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x (Scala 2.12):

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.2.0

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.2.0

GPU

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.2.0

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.2.0

Apple Silicon (M1 & M2)

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12...
Read more

Spark NLP 5.1.4: Introducing the new Text Splitter annotator, ONNX support for RoBERTa Token and Sequence Classifications, and Question Answering task, Over 1,200 state-of-the-art Transformer Models in ONNX, new Databricks and EMR support, along with various bug fixes!

26 Oct 20:10
88ad2d4
Compare
Choose a tag to compare

πŸ“’ Overview

Spark NLP 5.1.4 πŸš€ comes with new ONNX support for RoBertaForTokenClassification, RoBertaForSequenceClassification, and RoBertaForQuestionAnswering annotators. Additionally, we've added over 1,200 state-of-the-art transformer models in ONNX format to ensure rapid inference for OpenAI Whisper and BERT for multi-class/multi-label classification models.

We're pleased to announce that our Models Hub now boasts 22,000+ free and truly open-source models & pipelines πŸŽ‰. Our deepest gratitude goes out to our community for their invaluable feedback, feature suggestions, and contributions.


πŸ”₯ New Features & Enhancements

  • NEW: Introducing the DocumentCharacterTextSplitter, which allows users to split large documents into smaller chunks. This splitter accepts a list of separators in sequence and divides subtexts if they exceed the chunk length, while optionally overlapping chunks. Our inspiration came from the CharacterTextSplitter and RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter implementations within the LangChain library. As always, we've ensured that it's optimized, ready for production, and scalable:
textDF = spark.read.text(
   "/home/ducha/Workspace/scala/spark-nlp/src/test/resources/spell/sherlockholmes.txt",
   wholetext=True
).toDF("text")

documentAssembler = DocumentAssembler().setInputCol("text")

textSplitter = DocumentCharacterTextSplitter() \
    .setInputCols(["document"]) \
    .setOutputCol("splits") \
    .setChunkSize(1000) \
    .setChunkOverlap(100) \
    .setExplodeSplits(True)
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in RoBertaForTokenClassification annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in RoBertaForSequenceClassification annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in RoBertaForQuestionAnswering annotator
  • Introducing first support for Apache Spark and PySpark 3.5 that comes with lots of improvements for Spark Connect: https://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-3-5-0.html#highlights
  • Welcoming 6 new Databricks runtimes with support for new Spark 3.5:
    • Databricks 14.0 LTS
    • Databricks 14.0 LTS ML
    • Databricks 14.0 LTS ML GPU
    • Databricks 14.1 LTS
    • Databricks 14.1 LTS ML
    • Databricks 14.1 LTS ML GPU
  • Welcoming AWS 3 new EMR versions to our Spark NLP family:
    • emr-6.12.0
    • emr-6.13.0
    • emr-6.14.0
  • Adding an example to load a model directly from Azure using .load() method. This example helps users to understand how to set Spark NLP to load models from Azure

PS: Please remember to read the migration and breaking changes for new Databricks 14.x https://docs.databricks.com/en/release-notes/runtime/14.0.html#breaking-changes


πŸ› Bug Fixes

  • Fix a bug with in Whisper annotator, that would not allow every model to be imported
  • Fix BPE Tokenizer to include a flag whether or not to always prepend a space before words (previous behavior for embeddings)
  • Fix BPE Tokenizer to correctly convert and tokenize non-latin and other special characters/words
  • Fix RobertaForQuestionAnswering to produce the same logits and indexes as the implementation in Transformer library
  • Fix the return order of logits in BertForQuestionAnswering and DistilBertForQuestionAnswering annotators

πŸ““ New Notebooks

Notebooks Colab
HuggingFace ONNX in Spark NLP RoBertaForQuestionAnswering Open In Colab
HuggingFace ONNX in Spark NLP RoBertaForSequenceClassification Open In Colab
HuggingFace ONNX in Spark NLP BertForTokenClassification Open In Colab

πŸ“– Documentation


❀️ Community support

  • Slack For live discussion with the Spark NLP community and the team
  • GitHub Bug reports, feature requests, and contributions
  • Discussions Engage with other community members, share ideas, and show off how you use Spark NLP!
  • Medium Spark NLP articles
  • YouTube Spark NLP video tutorials

Installation

Python

#PyPI

pip install spark-nlp==5.1.4

Spark Packages

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, 3.4.x, and 3.5.x: (Scala 2.12):

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.1.4

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.1.4

GPU

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.1.4

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.1.4

Apple Silicon (M1 & M2)

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:5.1.4

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:5.1.4

AArch64

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:5.1.4

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:5.1.4

Maven

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, 3.4.x, and 3.5.x:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.4</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-gpu:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-gpu_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.4</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-silicon:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-silicon_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.4</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-aarch64:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.4</version>
</dependency>

FAT JARs

What's Changed

Read more

Spark NLP 5.1.3: New ONNX Configs, ONNX support for BERT Token and Sequence Classifications, DistilBERT token and sequence classifications, BERT and DistilBERT Question Answering, and bug fixes!

10 Oct 20:26
1fa94e9
Compare
Choose a tag to compare

πŸ“’ Overview

Spark NLP 5.1.3 πŸš€ comes with new ONNX support for BertForTokenClassification, BertForSequenceClassification, BertForQuestionAnswering, DistilBertForTokenClassification, DistilBertForSequenceClassification, and DistilBertForQuestionAnswering annotators, a new way to configure ONNX Runtime via Spark NLP Config, and bug fixes!

We want to thank our community for their valuable feedback, feature requests, and contributions. Our Models Hub now contains over 21,000+ free and truly open-source models & pipelines. πŸŽ‰


πŸ”₯ New Features & Enhancements

  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in BertForTokenClassification annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in BertForSequenceClassification annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in BertForQuestionAnswering annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in DistilBertForTokenClassification annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in DistilBertForSequenceClassification annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in DistilBertForQuestionAnswering annotator
  • NEW: Setting ONNX configuration such as GPU device id, execution mode, etc. via Spark NLP configs
onnx_params = {
    "spark.jsl.settings.onnx.gpuDeviceId": "0",
    "spark.jsl.settings.onnx.intraOpNumThreads": "5",
    "spark.jsl.settings.onnx.optimizationLevel": "BASIC_OPT",
    "spark.jsl.settings.onnx.executionMode": "SEQUENTIAL"
}

import sparknlp
# let's start Spark with Spark NLP
spark = sparknlp.start(params=onnx_params)
  • Update Whisper documentation with minimum required version of Spark/PySpark (3.4)

πŸ› Bug Fixes

  • Fix module 'sparknlp.annotator' has no attribute 'Token2Chunk' error in Python when using Token2Chunk annotator inside loaded PipelineModel

πŸ““ New Notebooks

Notebooks Colab
HuggingFace ONNX in Spark NLP BertForQuestionAnswering Open In Colab
HuggingFace ONNX in Spark NLP BertForSequenceClassification Open In Colab
HuggingFace ONNX in Spark NLP BertForTokenClassification Open In Colab
HuggingFace ONNX in Spark NLP DistilBertForQuestionAnswering Open In Colab
HuggingFace ONNX in Spark NLP DistilBertForSequenceClassification Open In Colab
HuggingFace ONNX in Spark NLP DistilBertForTokenClassification Open In Colab

πŸ“– Documentation


❀️ Community support

  • Slack For live discussion with the Spark NLP community and the team
  • GitHub Bug reports, feature requests, and contributions
  • Discussions Engage with other community members, share ideas, and show off how you use Spark NLP!
  • Medium Spark NLP articles
  • JohnSnowLabs official Medium
  • YouTube Spark NLP video tutorials

Installation

Python

#PyPI

pip install spark-nlp==5.1.3

Spark Packages

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x (Scala 2.12):

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.1.3

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.1.3

GPU

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.1.3

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.1.3

Apple Silicon (M1 & M2)

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:5.1.3

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:5.1.3

AArch64

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:5.1.3

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:5.1.3

Maven

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.3</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-gpu:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-gpu_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.3</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-silicon:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-silicon_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.3</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-aarch64:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.3</version>
</dependency>

FAT JARs

What's Changed

  • Fixing some 404 errors by @agsfer in #14012
  • SPARKNLP-907 Allows setting up ONNX configs through spark session by @danilojsl in #14009
  • Adding ONNX support for BertClassific...
Read more

Spark NLP 5.1.2: Unveiling the First Image-to-Text VisionEncoderDecoder, Over 3,000 ONNX state-of-the-art Transformer Models, Overhaul update in documentation, and bug fixes!

26 Sep 07:46
6919f5e
Compare
Choose a tag to compare

πŸ“’ Overview

For the first time, Spark NLP 5.1.2 πŸš€ proudly presents a new image-to-text annotator designed for captioning images. Additionally, we've added over 3,000 state-of-the-art transformer models in ONNX format to ensure rapid inference in your RAG when you are using LLMs.

We're pleased to announce that our Models Hub now boasts 21,000+ free and truly open-source models & pipelines πŸŽ‰. Our deepest gratitude goes out to our community for their invaluable feedback, feature suggestions, and contributions.


πŸ”₯ New Features & Enhancements

  • NEW: We're excited to introduce the VisionEncoderDecoderForImageCaptioning annotator, designed specifically for image-to-text captioning. We used VisionEncoderDecoderModel to import models fine-tuned for auto image captioning

The VisionEncoderDecoder can be employed to set up an image-to-text model. The encoding part can utilize any pretrained Transformer-based vision model, such as ViT, BEiT, DeiT, or Swin. Meanwhile, for the decoding part, it can make use of any pretrained language model like RoBERTa, GPT2, BERT, or DistilBERT.

The efficacy of using pretrained checkpoints to initialize image-to-text-sequence models is evident in the study titled TrOCR: Transformer-based Optical Character Recognition with Pre-trained Models by Minghao Li, Tengchao Lv, Lei Cui, Yijuan Lu, Dinei Florencio, Cha Zhang, Zhoujun Li, and Furu Wei.

Image Captioning Using Hugging Face Vision Encoder Decoder β€” Step2Step Guide (Part 2)

  • NEW: We've added cutting-edge transformer models in ONNX format for seamless integration. Our annotators will automatically recognize and utilize these models, streamlining your LLM pipelines without any additional setup.

  • We have added all the missing features from our documentation and added examples to Python and Scala APIs:

    • E5Embeddings
    • InstructorEmbeddings
    • MPNetEmbeddings
    • OpenAICompletion
    • VisionEncoderDecoderForImageCaptioning
    • DocumentSimilarityRanker
    • BartForZeroShotClassification
    • XlmRoBertaForZeroShotClassification
    • CamemBertForQuestionAnswering
    • DeBertaForSequenceClassification
    • DeBertaForTokenClassification
    • Date2Chunk

πŸ› Bug Fixes

  • We've made a minor adjustment to the beam search algorithm, enhancing the quality of the BART Transformer results.

πŸ““ New Notebooks

Notebooks Colab
Vision Encoder Decoder: Image Captioning at Scale in Spark NLP Open In Colab
Import Whisper models (ONNX) Open In Colab

πŸ“– Documentation


❀️ Community support

  • Slack For live discussion with the Spark NLP community and the team
  • GitHub Bug reports, feature requests, and contributions
  • Discussions Engage with other community members, share ideas, and show off how you use Spark NLP!
  • Medium Spark NLP articles
  • YouTube Spark NLP video tutorials

Installation

Python

#PyPI

pip install spark-nlp==5.1.2

Spark Packages

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x (Scala 2.12):

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.1.2

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.1.2

GPU

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.1.2

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.1.2

Apple Silicon (M1 & M2)

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:5.1.2

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:5.1.2

AArch64

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:5.1.2

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:5.1.2

Maven

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.2</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-gpu:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-gpu_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.2</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-silicon:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-silicon_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.2</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-aarch64:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.2</version>
</dependency>

FAT JARs

What's Changed

Full Changelog: 5.1.1...5.1.2

Spark NLP 5.1.1: Introducing ONNX Support for MPNet, AlbertForTokenClassification, AlbertForSequenceClassification, AlbertForQuestionAnswering transformers, access to full vectors in Word2VecModel, Doc2VecModel, WordEmbeddingsModel annotators, 460+ new ONNX models, and bug fixes!

11 Sep 22:24
e94899c
Compare
Choose a tag to compare

πŸ“’ Overview

Spark NLP 5.1.1 πŸš€ comes with new ONNX support for MPNet, AlbertForTokenClassification, AlbertForSequenceClassification, and AlbertForQuestionAnswering annotators, a new getVectors feature in Word2VecModel, Doc2VecModel, and WordEmbeddingsModel annotators, 460+ new ONNX models for MPNet and BERT transformers, and bug fixes!

We want to thank our community for their valuable feedback, feature requests, and contributions. Our Models Hub now contains over 18,800+ free and truly open-source models & pipelines. πŸŽ‰


πŸ”₯ New Features & Enhancements

  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in MPNet embedding annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in AlbertForTokenClassification annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in AlbertForSequenceClassification annotator
  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in AlbertForQuestionAnswering annotator
  • Implement getVectors feature in Word2VecModel, Doc2VecModel, and WordEmbeddingsModel annotators. This new feature allows access to the entire tokens and their vectors from the loaded models.

πŸ› Bug Fixes

  • Fix how to save and load Whisper models
  • Fix saving ONNX model on Windows operating system

πŸ“– Documentation


❀️ Community support

  • Slack For live discussion with the Spark NLP community and the team
  • GitHub Bug reports, feature requests, and contributions
  • Discussions Engage with other community members, share ideas, and show off how you use Spark NLP!
  • Medium Spark NLP articles
  • JohnSnowLabs official Medium
  • YouTube Spark NLP video tutorials

Installation

Python

#PyPI

pip install spark-nlp==5.1.1

Spark Packages

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x (Scala 2.12):

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.1.1

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.1.1

GPU

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.1.1

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.1.1

Apple Silicon (M1 & M2)

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:5.1.1

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:5.1.1

AArch64

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:5.1.1

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:5.1.1

Maven

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.1</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-gpu:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-gpu_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.1</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-silicon:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-silicon_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.1</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-aarch64:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.1</version>
</dependency>

FAT JARs

What's Changed

Full Changelog: 5.1.0...5.1.1

Spark NLP 5.1.0: Introducing state-of-the-art OpenAI Whisper speech-to-text, OpenAI Embeddings and Completion transformers, MPNet text embeddings, ONNX support for E5 text embeddings, new multi-lingual BART Zero-Shot text classification, and much more!

28 Aug 15:04
438d9e6
Compare
Choose a tag to compare

πŸ“’ And RAG whispered to Spark NLP, you complete me!

It's a well-established principle: any LLM, whether open-source or proprietary, isn't dependable without a RAG. And truly, there can't be an effective RAG without an NLP library that is production-ready, natively distributed, state-of-the-art, and user-friendly. This holds true in our 5.1.0 release!

Release Summary:
We're excited to unveil Spark NLP πŸš€ 5.1.0 with:

  • New OpenAI Whisper, Embeddings and Completions!
  • Extended ONNX support for highly-rated E5 embeddings. Anticipate swifter inferences, seamless optimizations, and quantization for exporting LLM models.
  • MPNet, a cherished sentence-embedding LLM boasting 140+ ready-to-use models!
  • Cutting-edge BGE and GTE text embedding models lead the MTEB leaderboard, surpassing even the renowned OpenAI text-embedding-ada-002. We employ these models for text vectorization, pairing them with LLM models to ensure accuracy and prevent misinterpretations.
  • Unified Support for All Major Cloud Storage (Azure, GCP, and S3)
  • BART multi-lingual Zero-Shot multi-class/multi-label text classification
  • and more!

We want to thank our community for their valuable feedback, feature requests, and contributions. Our Models Hub now contains over 18,000+ free and truly open-source models & pipelines. πŸŽ‰

Don't miss our free Webinar: From GPT-4 to Llama-2: Supercharging State-of-the-Art Embeddings for Vector Databases


πŸ”₯ New Features

Spark NLP ❀️ ONNX (toujours)

SPARK NLP

In Spark NLP 5.1.0, we're persisting with our commitment to ONNX Runtime support. Following our introduction of ONNX Runtime in Spark NLP 5.0.0β€”which has notably augmented the performance of models like BERTβ€”we're further integrating features to bolster model efficiency. Our endeavors include optimizing existing models and expanding our ONNX-compatible offerings. For a detailed overview of ONNX compatibility in Spark NLP, refer to this issue.

NEW: In the 5.1.0 release, we've extended ONNX support to the E5 embedding annotator and introduced 15 new E5 models in ONNX format. This includes both optimized and quantized versions. Impressively, the enhanced ONNX support and these new models showcase a performance boost ranging from 2.3x to 3.4x when compared to the TensorFlow versions released in the 5.0.0 update.

image

OpenAI Whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

NEW: Introducing WhisperForCTC annotator in Spark NLP πŸš€. WhisperForCTC can load all state-of-the-art Whisper models inherited from OpenAI Whisper for Robust Speech Recognition. Whisper was trained and open-sourced that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.

image

We study the capabilities of speech processing systems trained simply to predict large amounts of transcripts of audio on the internet. When scaled to 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervision, the resulting models generalize well to standard benchmarks and are often competitive with prior fully supervised results but in a zeroshot transfer setting without the need for any finetuning. When compared to humans, the models approach their accuracy and robustness. We are releasing models and inference code to serve as a foundation for further work on robust speech processing.
For more details, check out the official paper

audio_assembler = AudioAssembler() \
    .setInputCol("audio_content") \
    .setOutputCol("audio_assembler")

speech_to_text = WhisperForCTC \
    .pretrained()\
    .setInputCols("audio_assembler") \
    .setOutputCol("text")

pipeline = Pipeline(stages=[
  audio_assembler,
  speech_to_text,
])

MPNet: Masked and Permuted Pre-training for Language Understanding

NEW: Introducing MPNetEmbeddings annotator in Spark NLP πŸš€. MPNetEmbeddings can load all state-of-the-art MPNet Models for Text Embeddings.

image

We propose MPNet, a novel pre-training method that inherits the advantages of BERT and XLNet and avoids their limitations. MPNet leverages the dependency among predicted tokens through permuted language modeling (vs. MLM in BERT), and takes auxiliary position information as input to make the model see a full sentence and thus reducing the position discrepancy (vs. PLM in XLNet). We pre-train MPNet on a large-scale dataset (over 160GB text corpora) and fine-tune on a variety of down-streaming tasks (GLUE, SQuAD, etc). Experimental results show that MPNet outperforms MLM and PLM by a large margin, and achieves better results on these tasks compared with previous state-of-the-art pre-trained methods (e.g., BERT, XLNet, RoBERTa) under the same model setting.
MPNet: Masked and Permuted Pre-training for Language Understanding by
Kaitao Song, Xu Tan, Tao Qin, Jianfeng Lu, Tie-Yan Liu

Available new state-of-the-art BGE, TGE, E5, and INSTRUCTOR models for Text Embeddings are currently dominating the top of the MTEB leaderboard positioning themselves way above OpenAI text-embedding-ada-002
image

Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) Leaderboard. To submit, refer to the MTEB GitHub repository πŸ€—

New OpenAI Embeddings and Completions

NEW: In Spark NLP 5.1.0, we're thrilled to introduce the integration of OpenAI Embeddings and Completions transformers. By merging the prowess of OpenAI's language model with the robust NLP processing capabilities of Spark NLP, we've created a powerful synergy. Specifically, with the newly introduced OpenAIEmbeddings and OpenAICompletion transformers, users can now make direct API calls to OpenAI's Embeddings and Completion endpoints right from an Apache Spark DataFrame. This enhancement promises to elevate the efficiency and versatility of data processing workflows within Spark NLP pipelines.

# to use OpenAI completions endpoint
document_assembler = DocumentAssembler() \
        .setInputCol("text") \
        .setOutputCol("document")

openai_completion = OpenAICompletion() \
       .setInputCols("document") \
       .setOutputCol("completion") \
       .setModel("text-davinci-003") \
       .setMaxTokens(50)

# to use OpenAI embeddings endpoint
document_assembler = DocumentAssembler() \
        .setInputCol("text") \
        .setOutputCol("document")

openai_embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings() \
       .setInputCols("document") \
       .setOutputCol("embeddings") \
       .setModel("text-embedding-ada-002")

# Define the pipeline
pipeline = Pipeline(stages=[
    document_assembler, openai_embeddings
])

Unified Support for All Major Cloud Storage

In Spark NLP 5.1.0, we're thrilled to announce a holistic integration of all major cloud and distributed file storage systems. Building on our existing support for AWS, DBFS, and HDFS, we've now introduced seamless operations with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure. Here's a brief overview of what's been added and improved:

  • Comprehensive Integration: We've successfully unified all externally supported file systems and cloud access, ensuring a consistent experience across platforms.
  • Enhanced Cloud Access: Undergoing refactoring, the cache_pretrained property now offers unified cloud access, making it easier to cache models from any supported platform.
  • New Azure Storage Support: We've integrated Azure dependencies, allowing for Azure support in all cloud operations, ensuring users of Microsoft's cloud platform have a first-class experience.
  • New GCP Storage support: Users can now effortlessly export NER log files directly to GCP Storage. Additionally, importing HF models from GCP has been made straightforward.
  • Refinements and Fixes: We've relocated the Credentials component to the AWS package for better organization and addressed issues related to HDFS log and NER Graph loading.
  • Documentation: To help users get started and transition smoothly, comprehensive documentation has been added detailing the support for Azure, GCP, and S3 operations.

We're confident these updates will provide a smoother, more unified experience for users across all cloud platforms for the following features:

  • Define a custom path for cache_pretrained directory
  • Store logs during training
  • Load TF graphs for NerDL annotator
  • Importing any HF model into Spark NLP

BART: New multi-lingual Zero-Shot Text Classification

  • NEW: Introducing BartForZeroShotClassification annotator for Zero-Shot Text Classification in Spark NLP πŸš€. You can use the BartForZeroShotClassification annotator for text classification with your labels! πŸ’―

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL): Traditionally, ZSL most often referred to a fairly specific type of task: learning a classifier on one set of labels and then evaluating on a different set of labels that the classifier has never seen before. ...

Read more

Spark NLP 5.0.2: Introducing ONNX Support for ALBERT, CmameBERT, and XLM-RoBERTa, a new Zero-Short Classifier for XLM-RoBERTa transformer, 200+ new ONNX models, and bug fixes!

02 Aug 20:10
f7233d8
Compare
Choose a tag to compare

πŸ“’ Overview

Spark NLP 5.0.2 πŸš€ comes with new ONNX support for ALBERT, CmameBERT, and XLM-RoBERTa annotators, a new Zero-Short Classifier for XLM-RoBERTa transformer, 200+ new ONNX models, and bug fixes! We want to thank our community for their valuable feedback, feature requests, and contributions. Our Models Hub now contains over 18,000+ free and truly open-source models & pipelines. πŸŽ‰


πŸ”₯ New Features

  • NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in ALBERT, CamemBERT, and XLM-RoBERTa annotators. We have already converted 200+ models to ONNX format for these annotators for our community
  • NEW: Implement XlmRoBertaForZeroShotClassification annotator for Zero-Shot multi-class & multi-label text classification based on XLM-RoBERTa transformer

πŸ› Bug Fixes & Enhancements

  • Fix MarianTransformers annotator breaking with java.lang.ClassCastException in Python
  • Fix out of 0.0/1.0 accuracy in SentenceDetectorDL and MultiClassifierDL annotators
  • Fix BART issue with a low-temperature value that only occurred when there are no non-infinite logits satisfying the low temperature and top_k values
  • Add missing E5Embeddings and InstructorEmbeddings annotators to annotators in Scala for easy all-in-one import

πŸ“– Documentation


❀️ Community support

  • Slack For live discussion with the Spark NLP community and the team
  • GitHub Bug reports, feature requests, and contributions
  • Discussions Engage with other community members, share ideas, and show off how you use Spark NLP!
  • Medium Spark NLP articles
  • JohnSnowLabs official Medium
  • YouTube Spark NLP video tutorials

Installation

Python

#PyPI

pip install spark-nlp==5.0.2

Spark Packages

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x (Scala 2.12):

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.0.2

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.0.2

GPU

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.0.2

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.0.2

Apple Silicon (M1 & M2)

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:5.0.2

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:5.0.2

AArch64

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:5.0.2

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:5.0.2

Maven

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.0.2</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-gpu:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-gpu_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.0.2</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-silicon:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-silicon_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.0.2</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-aarch64:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.0.2</version>
</dependency>

FAT JARs

What's Changed

Full Changelog: 5.0.1...5.0.2

Spark NLP 5.0.1: Patch release

18 Jul 20:18
2b2f93c
Compare
Choose a tag to compare

πŸ“’ Overview

Spark NLP 5.0.1 πŸš€ is a patch release with bug fixes and other improvements. We want to thank our community for their valuable feedback, feature requests, and contributions. Our Models Hub now contains over 18,000+ free and truly open-source models & pipelines. πŸŽ‰


πŸ› Bug Fixes & Enhancements

  • Fix multiLabel param issue in XXXForSequenceClassitication and XXXForZeroShotClassification annotators
  • Add the missing threshold param to all XXXForSequenceClassitication in Python
  • Fix issue with passing spark.driver.cores config as a param into start() function in Python and Scala
  • Fix 600+ models' cards on Models Hub with duplicated code snippets
  • Add new notebooks to export BERT, DistilBERT, RoBERTa, and DeBERTa models to ONNX format

πŸ““ New Notebooks

Spark NLP Notebooks Colab
BertEmbeddings HuggingFace in Spark NLP - BERT BERT
DistilBertEmbeddings HuggingFace in Spark NLP - DistilBERT DistilBERT
RoBertaEmbeddings HuggingFace in Spark NLP - RoBERTa RoBERTa
DeBertaEmbeddings HuggingFace in Spark NLP - DeBERTa DeBERTa

πŸ“– Documentation


❀️ Community support

  • Slack For live discussion with the Spark NLP community and the team
  • GitHub Bug reports, feature requests, and contributions
  • Discussions Engage with other community members, share ideas,
    and show off how you use Spark NLP!
  • Medium Spark NLP articles
  • JohnSnowLabs official Medium
  • YouTube Spark NLP video tutorials

Installation

Python

#PyPI

pip install spark-nlp==5.0.1

Spark Packages

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x (Scala 2.12):

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.0.1

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:5.0.1

GPU

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.0.1

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:5.0.1

Apple Silicon (M1 & M2)

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:5.0.1

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:5.0.1

AArch64

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:5.0.1

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:5.0.1

Maven

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.0.1</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-gpu:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-gpu_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.0.1</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-silicon:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-silicon_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.0.1</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-aarch64:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>5.0.1</version>
</dependency>

FAT JARs

What's Changed

Full Changelog: 5.0.0...5.0.1

Spark NLP 5.0.0: Introducing ONNX Support, State-of-the-Art Instructor Embeddings, E5 Text Embeddings, Document Similarity Ranker, and Much More!

03 Jul 20:54
cf9b75e
Compare
Choose a tag to compare

πŸ“’ It's All About That Search!

We are delighted to announce the release of Spark NLP πŸš€ 5.0.0, featuring the highly anticipated support for ONNX! From the start of 2023, we have been working tirelessly to ensure that the integration of ONNX is not just possible but also seamless for all our users. With this support, you can look forward to faster inference, automatic optimization, and quantization when exporting your LLM models. Additionally, we are also set to release an array of new LLM models fine-tuned specifically for chat and instruction, now that we have successfully integrated ONNX Runtime into Spark NLP πŸš€.

We have introduced two state-of-the-art models for text embedding, INSTRUCTOR and E5 embeddings. Currently, these models are leading the way on the MTEB leaderboard, even outperforming the widely recognized OpenAI text-embedding-ada-002. These cutting-edge models are now being utilized in production environments to populate Vector Databases. In addition, they are being paired with LLM models like Falcon, serving to augment their existing knowledge base and reduce the chances of hallucinations.

We want to thank our community for their valuable feedback, feature requests, and contributions. Our Models Hub now contains over 18,000+ free and truly open-source models & pipelines. πŸŽ‰


πŸ”₯ New Features

Spark NLP ❀️ ONNX

SPARK NLP

NEW: Introducing support for ONNX Runtime in Spark NLPπŸš€. Serving as a high-performance inference engine, ONNX Runtime can handle machine learning models in the ONNX format and has been proven to significantly boost inference performance across a multitude of models.

Our integration of ONNX Runtime has already led to substantial improvements when serving our LLM models, including BERT. Furthermore, this integration empowers Spark NLP users to optimize their model performance. As users export their models to ONNX, they can utilize the built-in features provided by libraries such as onnx-runtime, transformers, optimum, and PyTorch. Notably, these libraries offer out-of-the-box capabilities for optimization and quantization, enhancing model efficiency and performance.

image

In the realm of Vector Databases, the quest for faster and more efficient Embeddings models has become an imperative pursuit. Models like BERT, DistilBERT, and DeBERTa have revolutionized natural language processing tasks by capturing intricate semantic relationships between words. However, their computational demands and slow inference times pose significant challenges in the game of Vector Databases.

In Vector Databases, the speed at which queries are processed and embeddings are retrieved directly impacts the overall performance and responsiveness of the system. As these databases store vast amounts of vectorized data, such as documents, sentences, or entities, swiftly retrieving relevant embeddings becomes paramount. It enables real-time applications like search engines, recommendation systems, sentiment analysis, and chat/instruct-like products similar to ChatGPT to deliver timely and accurate results, ensuring a seamless user experience.

Keeping this in mind, we've initiated ONNX support for the following annotators:

  • We've introduced ONNX support for the BertEmbeddings annotator. Approximately 180 models of the same name have already been converted to the ONNX format to automatically benefit from the associated performance enhancements.
  • We've added ONNX support for the RoBertaEmbeddings annotator. Roughly 55 models of the same name have been imported in the ONNX format, thus allowing for automatic speed improvements.
  • ONNX support has been initiated for the DistilBertEmbeddings annotator. Around 25 models with the same name have been converted to the ONNX format, facilitating automatic speed enhancements.
  • We've incorporated ONNX support into the DeBertaEmbeddings annotator. About 12 models bearing the same name have been imported in the ONNX format, enabling them to automatically reap the benefits of speed improvements.

We have successfully identified all existing models for these annotators on our Models Hub, converted them into the ONNX format, and re-uploaded them under the same names. This process was carried out to ensure a seamless transition for our community starting with Spark NLP 5.0.0. We will continue to import additional models in the ONNX format in the days ahead. To keep track of the ONNX compatibility with Spark NLP, follow this issue: #13866.

INSTRUCTOR: Instruction-Finetuned Text Embeddings

NEW: Introducing InstructorEmbeddings annotator in Spark NLP πŸš€. InstructorEmbeddings can load new state-of-the-art INSTRUCTOR Models inherited from Google T5 for Text embedding.

This annotator is compatible with all the models trained/fine-tuned by using T5EncoderModel for PyTorch or TFT5EncoderModel for TensorFlow models in HuggingFace πŸ€—

image

InstructorπŸ‘¨β€πŸ«, an instruction-finetuned text embedding model that can generate text embeddings tailored to any task (e.g., classification, retrieval, clustering, text evaluation, etc.) and domains (e.g., science, finance, etc.) by simply providing the task instruction, without any finetuning. InstructorπŸ‘¨β€ achieves sota on 70 diverse embedding tasks!
For more details, check out the official paper and the project page!

NOTEBOOK: https://github.com/JohnSnowLabs/spark-nlp/blob/master/examples/python/annotation/text/english/sentence-embeddings/InstructorEmbeddings.ipynb

E5: Text Embeddings by Weakly-Supervised Contrastive Pre-training

NEW: Introducing E5Embeddings annotator in Spark NLP πŸš€. E5Embeddings can load new state-of-the-art E5 Models based on BERT for Text Embeddings.

image

Text Embeddings by Weakly-Supervised Contrastive Pre-training.
Liang Wang, Nan Yang, Xiaolong Huang, Binxing Jiao, Linjun Yang, Daxin Jiang, Rangan Majumder, Furu Wei, arXiv 2022

NOTEBOOK: https://github.com/JohnSnowLabs/spark-nlp/blob/master/examples/python/annotation/text/english/sentence-embeddings/E5Embeddings.ipynb

Our new state-of-the-art annotators for Text Embeddings are currently dominating the top of the MTEB leaderboard positioning themselves above OpenAI text-embedding-ada-002
image

Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) Leaderboard. To submit, refer to the MTEB GitHub repository πŸ€—

Document Similarity Ranker by LSH techniques

NEW: Introducing DocumentSimilarityRanker annotator in Spark NLP πŸš€. DocumentSimilarityRanker is a new annotator that uses LSH techniques present in Spark ML lib to execute approximate nearest neighbors search on top of sentence embeddings, It aims to capture the semantic meaning of a document in a dense, continuous vector space and return it to the ranker search.

NOTEBOOK: https://github.com/JohnSnowLabs/spark-nlp/blob/master/examples/python/annotation/text/english/text-similarity/doc-sim-ranker/test_doc_sim_ranker.ipynb

  • Welcoming 6 new Databricks runtimes to our Spark NLP family:
    • Databricks 13.1 LTS
    • Databricks 13.1 LTS ML
    • Databricks 13.1 LTS ML GPU
    • Databricks 13.2 LTS
    • Databricks 13.2 LTS ML
    • Databricks 13.2 LTS ML GPU
  • Welcome AWS EMR 6.11 version to our Spark NLP family
  • Fix BART issue with input longer than the maxInputLength

πŸ’Ύ Models

Spark NLP 5.0.0 comes with more than 400+ new Large Language Models (LLMs) in ONNX format. We are also providing optimized and quantized versions of popular models that can be used immediately in any Spark NLP pipelines:

Featured Models

Model Name Lang
BertEmbeddings bert_base_cased en
BertEmbeddings bert_base_cased_opt en
BertEmbeddings bert_base_cased_quantized en
BertEmbeddings small_bert_L2_768 en
BertEmbeddings small_bert_L2_768_opt en
BertEmbeddings small_bert_L2_768_quantized en
DeBertaEmbeddings roberta_base en
DeBertaEmbeddings roberta_base_opt en
DeBertaEmbeddings roberta_base_quantized en
DistilBertEmbeddings [distilbert_b...
Read more

Spark NLP 4.4.4: Patch release

09 Jun 04:28
93ff36a
Compare
Choose a tag to compare

πŸ“’ Overview

Spark NLP 4.4.4 πŸš€ is a patch release with bug fixes and other improvements. We want to thank our community for their valuable feedback, feature requests, and contributions. Our Models Hub now contains over 17,000+ free and truly open-source models & pipelines. πŸŽ‰

Spark NLP has a new home! https://sparknlp.org is where you can find all the documentation, models, and demos for Spark NLP. It aims to provide valuable resources to anyone interested in 100% open-source NLP solutions by using Spark NLP πŸš€.


⭐ New Features & Enhancements

  • Add Warmup stage to loading all Transformers for word embeddings: ALBERT, BERT, CamemBERT, DistilBERT, RoBERTa, XLM-RoBERTa, and XLNet. This helps to reduce the first inference time and also validate importing external models from HuggingFace #13851
  • Add new notebooks to import ZeroShot Classifiers for Bert, DistilBERT, and RoBERTa fine-tuned based on NLI datasets #13845

πŸ› Bug Fixes

  • Fix not being able to save models from XXXForSequenceClassitication and XXXForZeroShotClassification annotators #13842
  • Fix pretrained pipelines that stopped working since the 4.4.2 release on PySpark 3.2 and 3.3 versions (adding 121 new pipelines were added) #13836

πŸ““ New Notebooks

Notebooks Colab Colab
BertForZeroShotClassification HuggingFace in Spark NLP - BertForZeroShotClassification Open In Colab
DistilBertForZeroShotClassification HuggingFace in Spark NLP - DistilBertForZeroShotClassification Open In Colab
RoBertaForZeroShotClassification HuggingFace in Spark NLP - RoBertaForZeroShotClassification Open In Colab

πŸ“– Documentation


❀️ Community support

  • Slack For live discussion with the Spark NLP community and the team
  • GitHub Bug reports, feature requests, and contributions
  • Discussions Engage with other community members, share ideas,
    and show off how you use Spark NLP!
  • Medium Spark NLP articles
  • JohnSnowLabs official Medium
  • YouTube Spark NLP video tutorials

Installation

Python

#PyPI

pip install spark-nlp==4.4.4

Spark Packages

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x (Scala 2.12):

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:4.4.4

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:4.4.4

GPU

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:4.4.4

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:4.4.4

Apple Silicon (M1 & M2)

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:4.4.4

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:4.4.4

AArch64

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:4.4.4

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:4.4.4

Maven

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>4.4.4</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-gpu:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-gpu_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>4.4.4</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-silicon:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-silicon_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>4.4.4</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-aarch64:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>4.4.4</version>
</dependency>

FAT JARs

What's Changed

Full Changelog: 4.4.3...4.4.4