README.md

RAG Lyon Data Science

Simple RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) using Vertex AI Generative AI (PaLM 2 model) and Qdrant Vector Database, presented at Lyon Data Science meetup

Installation

• The project was developed and tested using Python 3.10 on MacOS

python3.10 -m venv ./venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

• Start a local Qdrant instance

docker pull qdrant/qdrant
docker run -p 6333:6333 -p 6334:6334 qdrant/qdrant

• You need to have access to Vertex AI generative API through a GCP account

Usage

This repository contains 2 scripts:

• rag_indexing.py that index the content of data/knowledge_base.json (list of questions / responses from WikiQA dataset) in a Qdrant vector database.
  • Questions are embedded using Vertex AI Generative model (Gecko).
  • Qdrant URL can be configured in constant.py (default localhost).
  • You can define the port to use (HTTP and GRPC) when creating the Qdrant client (default are 6333 for HTTP, 6334 for GRPC).
• rag_inference.py that performs the following steps:
  1. Ask a question to the user.
  2. Embed the question using the same model as during indexing.
  3. Retrieve the nearest (semantic) questions in the database.
  4. Build a context for the user question, using the responses to the questions retrieved at the previous step.
  5. Build a prompt and ask a LLM (here Bison) for the response.

Note that the scripts can be easily adapted to use another Vector DB / LLM (GPT for example).

Overall process: