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Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)
This would be a pretty cool addition to the duckdb HNSW search project I found on here some time ago: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/portable-hnsw
What I think is really cool is that the search happens using http range queries across statically hosted parquet files.
I think things like this could bloom into a relatively open and distributed search ecosystem that isn’t controlled by major corporations.
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Embeddings Are Underrated
Another very cool attribute of embeddings and embedding search is that they are resource cheap enough that you can perform them client side.
ONNX models can be loaded and executed with transformer.js https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.js/
You can even build and statically host indices like hnsw for embeddings.
I put together a little open source demo for this here https://jasonjmcghee.github.io/portable-hnsw/
Long story short, represent indices as queryable parquet files and use duckdb to query them.
Depending on how you host, it's either free or nearly free. I used Github Pages so it's free. R2 with cloudflare would only cost the size what you store (very cheap- no egress fees).
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The Best Way to Use Text Embeddings Portably Is with Parquet and Polars
I thought about this some more and did some research - and found an indexing approach using HNSW, serialized to parquet, and queried from the browser here:
https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/portable-hnsw
Opens up efficient query patterns for larger datasets for RAG projects where you may not have the resources to run an expensive vector database
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I'm writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
This is exciting!
This could really simplify a little CDN-based HNSW project I did (https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/portable-hnsw)
Seems like with duckdb vss you could just embed, store as duckdb format, then execute sql against it (in the CDN).
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Show HN: HNSW-Based Search, in the Browser
Had so much fun making this.
So, I had a crazy idea.
What if you could search a vector store, in the browser, without a server?
As in, natural language search directly in the browser.
And what if you didn't need to load the entire thing in memory, so you could search a massive index without using a bunch of ram?
Anyway, I hope others enjoy it.
All the code is open source here: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/portable-hnsw
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