# fastRAG

> Efficient Retrieval Augmentation and Generation Framework

- **URL**: https://www.freshcrate.ai/projects/fastRAG
- **Author**: IntelLabs
- **Category**: Testing
- **Latest version**: `v3.1.2` (2024-11-25)
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Source**: https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG
- **Language**: Python
- **GitHub**: 1,776 stars, 168 forks
- **Registry**: github
- **Tags**: `benchmark`, `colbert`, `diffusion`, `generative-ai`, `information-retrieval`, `knowledge-graph`, `llm`, `multi-modal`, `python`

## Description

Efficient Retrieval Augmentation and Generation Framework

## Recent releases

| Version | Date | Urgency | Changes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `v3.1.2` | 2024-11-25 | Low | ## What's Changed * Updated IPEX embedder to work with new Haystack version (2.7) by @gadmarkovits in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/74  ## New Contributors * @gadmarkovits made their first contribution in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/74  **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/compare/v3.1.1...v3.1.2 |
| `v3.1.1` | 2024-11-24 | Low | ## What's Changed * Relax dependencies, add Streaming Callback by @dnoliver in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/71 * OpenVINO Serialization fix by @danielfleischer in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/73  ## New Contributors * @dnoliver made their first contribution in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/71  **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/compare/v3.1.0...v3.1.1 |
| `v3.1.0` | 2024-11-07 | Low | ## What's Changed * Update llava.py by @mosheber in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/54 * Remove indexing function by @mosheber in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/55 * IPEX benchmarking fix by @peteriz in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/58 * Removing Handlers with Phi3.5 Suppport by @mosheber in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/59 * replaced list[str] with List[str] by @mosheber in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/67 * Adding files for multi m |
| `v3.0.2` | 2024-07-09 | Low | ## What's Changed * Fix IPEX embedders performance by @peteriz in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/52 * Fix support python versions by @peteriz in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/53   **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/compare/v3.0.1...v3.0.2 |
| `v3.0.1` | 2024-07-02 | Low | ## What's Changed * Gaudi Generator by @mosheber in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/50 * Adding pypi packaging support by @peteriz in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/51   **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/compare/v3.0...v3.0.1 |
| `v3.0` | 2024-05-22 | Low | # Compatibility with Haystack v2  - ⚡ All our classes are now compatible with 🤖 Haystack v2, including the example notebooks and yaml pipeline configurations. - 💻  We based our demos on the [Chainlit](https://github.com/Chainlit/chainlit) UI library; examples include RAG chat with multi-modality! 🖼️   ❤️ Feel free to report any issue, bug or question! |
| `v2.0` | 2023-12-24 | Low | # fastRAG 2.0: Let's do RAG Efficiently :fire:  fastRAG 2.0 includes new highly-anticipated efficiency-oriented components, an updated chat-like demo experience with multi-modality and improvements to existing components.  The library now utilizes efficient **Intel optimizations** using [Intel extensions for PyTorch (IPEX)](https://github.com/intel/intel-extension-for-pytorch), [🤗 Optimum Intel](https://github.com/huggingface/optimum-intel) and [🤗 Optimum-Habana](https://github.com/hugging |
| `v1.3.0` | 2023-06-20 | Low | ## What's Changed * ColBERT Upstream Updates by @danielfleischer in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/19   **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/compare/v1.2.1...v1.3.0 |
| `v1.2.1` | 2023-06-13 | Low | ## What's Changed * Update plaid_colbert_pipeline.ipynb by @mosheber in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/17 * Update colbert.py by @mosheber in https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/pull/18   **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/compare/v1.2.0...v1.2.1 |
| `v1.2.0` | 2023-05-21 | Low | Release v1.2.0 |

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