Chroma provides a convenient wrapper for HuggingFace Text Embedding Server, a standalone server that provides text embeddings via a REST API. You can read more about it here.
Setting Up The Server#
To run the embedding server locally you can run the following command from the root of the Chroma repository. The docker compose command will run Chroma and the embedding server together.
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The above docker command will run the server with the BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 model. You can find more information about running the server in docker here.
Usage#
This embedding function relies on the requests python package, which you can install with pip install requests.
The embedding model is configured on the server side. Check the docker-compose file in examples/server_side_embeddings/huggingface/docker-compose.yml for an example of how to configure the server.