Rework Dependencies: ship with barebones dependencies & bundle different features as extras

[bclavie]

Putting this out there as a way to alleviate the many dependencies issues. I'll soon be shipping a PLAID (&compression, that will come later)-free indexing method, which will alleviate the need to run custom CUDA code or faiss when indexing small collections (anything up to ~2000 256 token documents can still be queried in hundreds of milliseconds on CPU).

Once this index has shipped, I am planning to overhaul dependencies, as I'm being told more and more that RAGatouille is making it into prod use cases and the "full fat" default version is kind of annoying. This is where I'm currently at in terms of versions:

ragatouille

Features: Search, In-memory encoding, uncompressed indexing Deps:

• colbert-ai (backbone)
• srsly (serialisation)
• torch (backbone) --> maybe optional

ragatouille[train]

REMOVE SENTENCE-TRANSFORMERS Features: Training, hard negative mining Additional deps:

• Voyager (hard neg dense quick retrieval)

  ragatouille[plaid-cpu]

  Features: Plaid indexing on CPU Additional Deps:

• faiss-cpu
• llama-index (for now, for chunking)

  ragatouille[plaid-gpu]

  Features: Plaid indexing on GPU Additional Deps:

• faiss-gpu
• llama-index (for now, for chunking)

  ragatouille[langchain]

  Features: Allows export as langchain retriever Additional Deps:

• langchain
• langchain_core

  ragatouille[onnx]

  Features: Allows ONNX format export (for Vespa) Additional Deps:

• onnx

ragatouille[all]

Features: Everything Deps:

• all of the above

Any feedback on this would be appreciated at this stage -- very early thoughts still! One big question is whether torch (which is required) should ship with the base version, or be optional to facilitate env compatibility.

[phaistos]

There are issues when adding ragatouille to a llama-index 0.10.x project. It pulls an 0.9.x artifact and some of the core namespaces get confused, e.g. you can't import LLM from core anymore. Since it doesn't seem integral to your project, perhaps you could bump it up.