georgealexanderday

georgealexanderday

I’ve recently been interested in trying out Nx with Bumblebee so have been following along with the fantastic dockyard article on creating a basic RAG.

However, i’m seemingly falling at the first hurdle with just getting the predict which uses Nx.Serving.
I have the following:

defmodule Rag.Embedding do

  def serving() do
    {:ok, model} = Bumblebee.load_model({:hf, "intfloat/e5-large-v2"})
    {:ok, tokenizer} = Bumblebee.load_tokenizer({:hf, "intfloat/e5-large-v2"})

    Bumblebee.Text.text_embedding(model, tokenizer,
      embedding_processor: :l2_norm,
      defn_options: [compiler: EMLX]
    )
  end

  def predict(text) do
    Nx.Serving.batched_run(__MODULE__, text)
  end
end

and starting the serving with:

defmodule Rag.Application do

  use Application

  @impl true
  def start(_type, _args) do

    Nx.Defn.default_options(compiler: EMLX)
    Nx.default_backend(EMLX.Backend)

    children = [
      {Nx.Serving, serving: Rag.Embedding.serving(), name: Rag.Embedding}
    ]

    opts = [strategy: :one_for_one, name: Rag.Supervisor]
    Supervisor.start_link(children, opts)
  end
end

The model successfully downloads however it seems to hang on the predict.

rag on  main [!?] is 📦 v0.1.0 via 💧 v1.18.3 (OTP 27) via ❄️  impure (nix-shell-env) took 47s
λ iex -S mix
Erlang/OTP 27 [erts-15.2.6] [source] [64-bit] [smp:12:12] [ds:12:12:10] [async-threads:1] [jit]

Interactive Elixir (1.18.3) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(1)> Process.whereis(Rag.Embedding)
#PID<0.220.0>
iex(2)> Rag.Embedding.predict("Hello, world") # stalls here.

I’m coming from a python machine learning background so it may be something completely obvious.
Any help here would be appreciated!

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al2o3cr

al2o3cr

Does the behavior change if you let the shell run for a while before requesting a prediction? Checking for the process will tell you if it’s started, but loading models etc happens after that.

Also observe the machine’s CPU/GPU load while waiting: is there work being done?

polvalente

polvalente

Nx Core Team

If you open a shell with iex -S mix run --no-start, you can load the Bumblebee models manually and the downloads will be cached for future runs.

EMLX is also not currently stable for usage as a compiler, so I recommend you use just the backend, or maybe even EXLA with the backend and compiler set

polvalente

polvalente

Nx Core Team

For what it’s worth:

This Nx issue aims to help in debugging why EMLX is not on par with EXLA w.r.t. results. I have someone working on this now. Hopefully by next week we’ll have something out.
https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/issues/1606

And there are a few issues on the EMLX tracker related to user reports.

georgealexanderday

georgealexanderday OP

Managed to get it working, thanks for the help here folks!

GenericJam

GenericJam

How did you manage to get this working?

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