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bertml

High-level non-blocking Deno bindings to the rust-bert machine learning crate.

Guide

Introduction

The ModelManager class manages the FFI bindings and all of your models that connect to the bindings. You create models from the manager and then use the methods on those classes. The creation of a ModelManager is synchronous as the loading of binaries with the Deno FFI API is synchronous. Therefore, make sure you create your ModelManager before asynchronous logic begins to not cause any unexpected behavior.

const manager = await ModelManager.create();

Creating Models

To create models, simply call the corresponding create*Model method on the ModelManager class and store the model as a variable. For this example, we’ll be creating a question answering model:

const manager = await ModelManager.create();

const qaModel = await manager.createQAModel();

const answers = await qaModel.query({
  questionGroups: [
    {
      context: "Amy lives in Canada.",
      question: "Where does Amy live?",
    },
  ],
});

console.log(answers);

Output:

[ [ { score: 0.985611081123352, start: 13, end: 19, answer: "Canada" } ] ]

If you need to learn more about creating instances of models, then simply check out the docs.

Supported Pipelines

Note: we do not currently support any model-level configuration except for the different languages for the TranslationModel.

  • SummarizationModel
  • ConversationModel
  • TranslationModel
  • NERModel
  • QAModel
  • SentimentModel
  • POSModel
  • ZeroShotClassificationModel
  • TextGenerationModel

To test out these pipelines, you can try and run the dev.ts file. However, this will automatically install the necessary models so I advise you comment out the models you don’t want to download.

rust-bert citations

@inproceedings{becquin-2020-end,
    title = "End-to-end {NLP} Pipelines in Rust",
    author = "Becquin, Guillaume",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of Second Workshop for NLP Open Source Software (NLP-OSS)",
    year = "2020",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.nlposs-1.4",
    pages = "20--25",
}

Acknowledgements

rust-bert loads the models from Hugging Face and bertml also has a huge thanks to Hugging Face for making these models public and interfaceable with Rust (+ Deno).

License

MIT