feat: splade pooling (#174)

README.md

@@ -152,13 +152,16 @@ Options:
       --pooling <POOLING>
           Optionally control the pooling method for embedding models.
 
-          If `pooling` is not set, the pooling configuration will be parsed from the model `1_Pooling/config.json`
-          configuration.
+          If `pooling` is not set, the pooling configuration will be parsed from the model `1_Pooling/config.json` configuration.
 
           If `pooling` is set, it will override the model pooling configuration
 
           [env: POOLING=]
-          [possible values: cls, mean]
+
+          Possible values:
+          - cls:    Select the CLS token as embedding
+          - mean:   Apply Mean pooling to the model embeddings
+          - splade: Apply SPLADE (Sparse Lexical and Expansion) to the model embeddings. This option is only available if the loaded model is a `ForMaskedLM` Transformer model
 
       --max-concurrent-requests <MAX_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS>
           The maximum amount of concurrent requests for this particular deployment.

backends/candle/src/layers/layer_norm.rs

@@ -23,12 +23,15 @@ impl LayerNorm {
         })
     }
 
-    pub fn forward(&self, hidden_states: &Tensor, residual: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+    pub fn forward(&self, hidden_states: &Tensor, residual: Option<&Tensor>) -> Result<Tensor> {
         let _enter = self.span.enter();
 
         match hidden_states.device() {
             Device::Cpu | Device::Metal(_) => {
-                let hidden_states = hidden_states.add(residual)?;
+                let mut hidden_states = hidden_states.clone();
+                if let Some(residual) = residual {
+                    hidden_states = hidden_states.add(residual)?;
+                }
                 let hidden_states_dtype = hidden_states.dtype();
                 let internal_dtype = match hidden_states_dtype {
                     DType::F16 | DType::BF16 => DType::F32,
@@ -51,19 +54,25 @@ impl LayerNorm {
             Device::Cuda(_) => {
                 #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
                 {
-                    use candle_layer_norm::fused_add_layer_norm;
+                    use candle_layer_norm::{fused_add_layer_norm, layer_norm};
 
                     let original_shape = hidden_states.shape();
                     let hidden_states = hidden_states.flatten_to(D::Minus2)?;
-                    let residual = residual.flatten_to(D::Minus2)?;
 
-                    let (result, _) = fused_add_layer_norm(
-                        &hidden_states,
-                        &residual,
-                        &self.weight,
-                        Some(&self.bias),
-                        self.epsilon,
-                    )?;
+                    let result = if let Some(residual) = residual {
+                        let residual = residual.flatten_to(D::Minus2)?;
+
+                        let (result, _) = fused_add_layer_norm(
+                            &hidden_states,
+                            &residual,
+                            &self.weight,
+                            Some(&self.bias),
+                            self.epsilon,
+                        )?;
+                        Ok(result)
+                    } else {
+                        layer_norm(&hidden_states, &self.weight, Some(&self.bias), self.epsilon)
+                    }?;
                     result.reshape(original_shape)
                 }
                 #[cfg(not(feature = "cuda"))]

backends/candle/src/lib.rs

@@ -11,10 +11,13 @@ use crate::compute_cap::{
     get_compile_compute_cap, get_runtime_compute_cap, incompatible_compute_cap,
 };
 use crate::models::{
-    BertModel, JinaBertModel, Model, NomicBertModel, NomicConfig, PositionEmbeddingType,
+    BertModel, DistilBertConfig, DistilBertModel, JinaBertModel, Model, NomicBertModel,
+    NomicConfig, PositionEmbeddingType,
 };
 #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
-use crate::models::{FlashBertModel, FlashJinaBertModel, FlashNomicBertModel};
+use crate::models::{
+    FlashBertModel, FlashDistilBertModel, FlashJinaBertModel, FlashNomicBertModel,
+};
 use candle::{DType, Device};
 use candle_nn::VarBuilder;
 use models::BertConfig;
@@ -33,6 +36,8 @@ enum Config {
     XlmRoberta(BertConfig),
     Camembert(BertConfig),
     Roberta(BertConfig),
+    #[serde(rename(deserialize = "distilbert"))]
+    DistilBert(DistilBertConfig),
     #[serde(rename(deserialize = "nomic_bert"))]
     NomicBert(NomicConfig),
 }
@@ -119,6 +124,12 @@ impl CandleBackend {
                     BertModel::load_roberta(vb, &config, model_type).s()?,
                 ))
             }
+            (Config::DistilBert(config), Device::Cpu | Device::Metal(_)) => {
+                tracing::info!("Starting DistilBertModel model on {:?}", device);
+                Ok(Box::new(
+                    DistilBertModel::load(vb, &config, model_type).s()?,
+                ))
+            }
             (Config::NomicBert(config), Device::Cpu | Device::Metal(_)) => {
                 tracing::info!("Starting NomicBertModel model on {:?}", device);
                 Ok(Box::new(NomicBertModel::load(vb, &config, model_type).s()?))
@@ -175,6 +186,26 @@ impl CandleBackend {
                 }
             }
             #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
+            (Config::DistilBert(config), Device::Cuda(_)) => {
+                if cfg!(feature = "flash-attn")
+                    && dtype == DType::F16
+                    && &std::env::var("USE_FLASH_ATTENTION")
+                        .unwrap_or("True".to_string())
+                        .to_lowercase()
+                        == "true"
+                {
+                    tracing::info!("Starting FlashNomicBertModel model on {:?}", device);
+                    Ok(Box::new(
+                        FlashDistilBertModel::load(vb, &config, model_type).s()?,
+                    ))
+                } else {
+                    tracing::info!("Starting DistilBertModel model on {:?}", device);
+                    Ok(Box::new(
+                        DistilBertModel::load(vb, &config, model_type).s()?,
+                    ))
+                }
+            }
+            #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
             (Config::NomicBert(config), Device::Cuda(_)) => {
                 if cfg!(feature = "flash-attn")
                     && dtype == DType::F16

backends/candle/src/models.rs

@@ -5,20 +5,25 @@ extern crate intel_mkl_src;
 extern crate accelerate_src;
 
 mod bert;
+mod distilbert;
+mod jina;
+mod nomic;
 
 #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
 mod flash_bert;
 
 #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
 mod flash_jina;
-mod jina;
 
 #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
 mod flash_nomic;
-mod nomic;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
+mod flash_distilbert;
 
 pub use bert::{BertConfig, BertModel, PositionEmbeddingType};
 use candle::{Result, Tensor};
+pub use distilbert::{DistilBertConfig, DistilBertModel};
 pub use jina::JinaBertModel;
 pub use nomic::{NomicBertModel, NomicConfig};
 use text_embeddings_backend_core::Batch;
@@ -32,6 +37,9 @@ pub use flash_jina::FlashJinaBertModel;
 #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
 pub use flash_nomic::FlashNomicBertModel;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
+pub use flash_distilbert::FlashDistilBertModel;
+
 pub(crate) trait Model {
     fn is_padded(&self) -> bool;
 

backends/candle/src/models/bert.rs

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ pub struct BertConfig {
     #[serde(default)]
     pub use_cache: bool,
     pub classifier_dropout: Option<f64>,
-    pub model_type: Option<String>,
     pub id2label: Option<HashMap<String, String>>,
 }
 
@@ -39,7 +38,7 @@ pub enum PositionEmbeddingType {
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
-struct BertEmbeddings {
+pub struct BertEmbeddings {
     word_embeddings: Embedding,
     token_type_embeddings: Embedding,
     position_embeddings: Embedding,
@@ -80,7 +79,7 @@ impl BertEmbeddings {
         })
     }
 
-    fn forward(
+    pub fn forward(
         &self,
         input_ids: &Tensor,
         token_type_ids: &Tensor,
@@ -93,7 +92,9 @@ impl BertEmbeddings {
         let position_embeddings = self.position_embeddings.forward(position_ids)?;
 
         let embeddings = input_embeddings.add(&token_type_embeddings)?;
-        let embeddings = self.layer_norm.forward(&embeddings, &position_embeddings)?;
+        let embeddings = self
+            .layer_norm
+            .forward(&embeddings, Some(&position_embeddings))?;
 
         Ok(embeddings)
     }
@@ -255,7 +256,7 @@ impl BertAttention {
         let context_layer = context_layer.transpose(1, 2)?.flatten_from(D::Minus2)?;
 
         let hidden_states = self.dense.forward(&context_layer)?;
-        let hidden_states = self.layer_norm.forward(&hidden_states, &residual)?;
+        let hidden_states = self.layer_norm.forward(&hidden_states, Some(&residual))?;
 
         Ok(hidden_states)
     }
@@ -324,7 +325,7 @@ impl BertLayer {
 
         let hidden_states = self.intermediate.forward(&hidden_states)?;
         let hidden_states = self.output.forward(&hidden_states)?;
-        let hidden_states = self.layer_norm.forward(&hidden_states, &residual)?;
+        let hidden_states = self.layer_norm.forward(&hidden_states, Some(&residual))?;
 
         Ok(hidden_states)
     }
@@ -469,7 +470,12 @@ impl BertModel {
                     Box::new(BertClassificationHead::load(vb.pp("classifier"), config)?);
                 (pool, Some(classifier))
             }
-            ModelType::Embedding(pool) => (pool, None),
+            ModelType::Embedding(pool) => {
+                if pool == Pool::Splade {
+                    candle::bail!("`splade` is not supported for Nomic")
+                }
+                (pool, None)
+            }
         };
 
         let (embeddings, encoder) = match (
@@ -724,6 +730,7 @@ impl BertModel {
 
                     (outputs.sum(1)?.broadcast_div(&input_lengths))?
                 }
+                Pool::Splade => unreachable!(),
             };
             Some(pooled_embeddings)
         } else {