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Version: 3.0

NvidiaDocumentEmbedder

This component computes the embeddings of a list of documents and stores the obtained vectors in the embedding field of each document.

Most common position in a pipelineBefore a DocumentWriter in an indexing pipeline
Mandatory init variablesapi_key: API key for the NVIDIA NIM. Can be set with NVIDIA_API_KEY env var.
Mandatory run variablesdocuments: A list of documents
Output variablesdocuments: A list of documents (enriched with embeddings)

meta: A dictionary of metadata
API referenceNVIDIA
GitHub linkhttps://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack-core-integrations/tree/main/integrations/nvidia
Package namenvidia-haystack

Overview

NvidiaDocumentEmbedder enriches documents with an embedding of their content.

You can use this component with self-hosted models using NVIDIA NIM or models hosted on the NVIDIA API Catalog.

To embed a string, use NvidiaTextEmbedder.

Usage

To start using NvidiaDocumentEmbedder, install the nvidia-haystack package:

shell
pip install nvidia-haystack

You can use NvidiaDocumentEmbedder with all the embedding models available on the NVIDIA API Catalog or with a model deployed using NVIDIA NIM. For more information, refer to NIM for Embedding.

On its own

To use models from the NVIDIA API Catalog, you need to specify the api_url and your API key. You can get your API key from the NVIDIA API Catalog.

NvidiaDocumentEmbedder uses the NVIDIA_API_KEY environment variable by default. Otherwise, you can pass an API key at initialization with the api_key parameter:

python
from haystack import Document
from haystack.utils.auth import Secret
from haystack_integrations.components.embedders.nvidia import NvidiaDocumentEmbedder

documents = [
Document(content="A transformer is a deep learning architecture"),
Document(content="Large language models use transformer architectures"),
]

embedder = NvidiaDocumentEmbedder(
model="nvidia/nv-embedqa-e5-v5",
api_url="https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1",
api_key=Secret.from_token("<your-api-key>"),
)

result = embedder.run(documents=documents)
print(result["documents"])
print(result["meta"])

To use a locally deployed model, set the api_url to your localhost and set api_key to None:

python
from haystack import Document
from haystack_integrations.components.embedders.nvidia import NvidiaDocumentEmbedder

documents = [
Document(content="A transformer is a deep learning architecture"),
Document(content="Large language models use transformer architectures"),
]

embedder = NvidiaDocumentEmbedder(
model="nvidia/nv-embedqa-e5-v5",
api_url="http://localhost:9999/v1",
api_key=None,
)

result = embedder.run(documents=documents)
print(result["documents"])
print(result["meta"])

In a pipeline

The following example shows how to use NvidiaDocumentEmbedder in a RAG pipeline:

python
from haystack import Pipeline, Document
from haystack.document_stores.in_memory import InMemoryDocumentStore
from haystack.components.writers import DocumentWriter
from haystack.components.retrievers.in_memory import InMemoryEmbeddingRetriever
from haystack.utils.auth import Secret
from haystack_integrations.components.embedders.nvidia import (
NvidiaTextEmbedder,
NvidiaDocumentEmbedder,
)

document_store = InMemoryDocumentStore(embedding_similarity_function="cosine")

documents = [
Document(content="My name is Wolfgang and I live in Berlin"),
Document(content="I saw a black horse running"),
Document(content="Germany has many big cities"),
]

indexing_pipeline = Pipeline()
indexing_pipeline.add_component(
"embedder",
NvidiaDocumentEmbedder(
model="nvidia/nv-embedqa-e5-v5",
api_url="https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1",
api_key=Secret.from_token("<your-api-key>"),
),
)
indexing_pipeline.add_component("writer", DocumentWriter(document_store=document_store))
indexing_pipeline.connect("embedder", "writer")

indexing_pipeline.run({"embedder": {"documents": documents}})

query_pipeline = Pipeline()
query_pipeline.add_component(
"text_embedder",
NvidiaTextEmbedder(
model="nvidia/nv-embedqa-e5-v5",
api_url="https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1",
api_key=Secret.from_token("<your-api-key>"),
),
)
query_pipeline.add_component(
"retriever",
InMemoryEmbeddingRetriever(document_store=document_store),
)
query_pipeline.connect("text_embedder.embedding", "retriever.query_embedding")

query = "Who lives in Berlin?"

result = query_pipeline.run({"text_embedder": {"text": query}})

print(result["retriever"]["documents"][0])