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gte-base

Use the gte-base embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Ideal model for good performance while keeping with open source and.

```python theme={null}
!pip install -qU transformers==4.35.0 pinecone
```

### Create Index

```python theme={null}
from pinecone import Pinecone, ServerlessSpec

pc = Pinecone(api_key="API KEY")

# Create Index
index_name = "gte-base"

if not pc.has_index(index_name):
    pc.create_index(
        name=index_name,
        dimension=768,
        metric="cosine",
        spec=ServerlessSpec(
            cloud='aws',
            region='us-east-1'
        )
    )

index = pc.Index(index_name)
```

### Embed & Upsert

```python theme={null}
# Embed data
data = [
    {"id": "vec1", "text": "Apple is a popular fruit known for its sweetness and crisp texture."},
    {"id": "vec2", "text": "The tech company Apple is known for its innovative products like the iPhone."},
    {"id": "vec3", "text": "Many people enjoy eating apples as a healthy snack."},
    {"id": "vec4", "text": "Apple Inc. has revolutionized the tech industry with its sleek designs and user-friendly interfaces."},
    {"id": "vec5", "text": "An apple a day keeps the doctor away, as the saying goes."},
]


import torch
from torch.nn.functional import normalize
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"

model_id = "thenlper/gte-base"

# initialize tokenizer and model

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_id).to(device)

model.eval()

def embed(docs: list[str]) -> list[list[float]]:

    # tokenize
    tokens = tokenizer(
            docs, padding=True, max_length=512, truncation=True, return_tensors="pt"
    ).to(device)
    with torch.no_grad():
        # process with model for token-level embeddings
        out = model(**tokens)
        # mask padding tokens
        last_hidden = out.last_hidden_state.masked_fill(
                ~tokens["attention_mask"][..., None].bool(), 0.0
        )
        # create mean pooled embeddings
        doc_embeds = last_hidden.sum(dim=1) / tokens["attention_mask"].sum(dim=1)[..., None]
    return doc_embeds.cpu().numpy().tolist()

embeddings = embed([d["text"] for d in data])

vectors = []
for d, e in zip(data, embeddings):
    vectors.append({
        "id": d['id'],
        "values": e,
        "metadata": {'text': d['text']}
    })

index.upsert(
    vectors=vectors,
    namespace="ns1"
)
```

### Query

```python theme={null}
query = "Tell me about the tech company known as Apple"

x = embed([query])

results = index.query(
    namespace="ns1",
    vector=x[0],
    top_k=3,
    include_values=False,
    include_metadata=True
)

print(results)
```

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