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QAnything(Question and Answer based on Anything) is a local knowledge base question-answering system designed to support a wide range of file formats and databases, allowing for offline installation and use.
With QAnything, you can simply drop any locally stored file of any format and receive accurate, fast, and reliable answers.
Currently supported formats include: PDF, Word (doc/docx), PPT, Markdown, Eml, TXT, Images (jpg, png, etc.), Web links and more formats coming soon…
- Data Security, supports installation and usage with network cable unplugged throughout the process.
- Cross-language QA support, freely switch between Chinese and English QA, regardless of the language of the document.
- Supports massive data QA, two-stage retrieval ranking, solving the degradation problem of large-scale data retrieval; the more data, the better the performance.
- High-performance production-grade system, directly deployable for enterprise applications.
- User-friendly, no need for cumbersome configurations, one-click installation and deployment, ready to use.
- Multi knowledge base QA Support selecting multiple knowledge bases for Q&A
In scenarios with a large volume of knowledge base data, the advantages of a two-stage approach are very clear. If only a first-stage embedding retrieval is used, there will be a problem of retrieval degradation as the data volume increases, as indicated by the green line in the following graph. However, after the second-stage reranking, there can be a stable increase in accuracy, the more data, the better the performance.
QAnything uses the retrieval component BCEmbedding, which is distinguished for its bilingual and crosslingual proficiency. BCEmbedding excels in bridging Chinese and English linguistic gaps, which achieves
- A high performance on Semantic Representation Evaluations in MTEB;
- A new benchmark in the realm of RAG Evaluations in LlamaIndex.
| Model | Retrieval | STS | PairClassification | Classification | Reranking | Clustering | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bge-base-en-v1.5 | 37.14 | 55.06 | 75.45 | 59.73 | 43.05 | 37.74 | 47.20 |
| bge-base-zh-v1.5 | 47.60 | 63.72 | 77.40 | 63.38 | 54.85 | 32.56 | 53.60 |
| bge-large-en-v1.5 | 37.15 | 54.09 | 75.00 | 59.24 | 42.68 | 37.32 | 46.82 |
| bge-large-zh-v1.5 | 47.54 | 64.73 | 79.14 | 64.19 | 55.88 | 33.26 | 54.21 |
| jina-embeddings-v2-base-en | 31.58 | 54.28 | 74.84 | 58.42 | 41.16 | 34.67 | 44.29 |
| m3e-base | 46.29 | 63.93 | 71.84 | 64.08 | 52.38 | 37.84 | 53.54 |
| m3e-large | 34.85 | 59.74 | 67.69 | 60.07 | 48.99 | 31.62 | 46.78 |
| bce-embedding-base_v1 | 57.60 | 65.73 | 74.96 | 69.00 | 57.29 | 38.95 | 59.43 |
- More evaluation details please check Embedding Models Evaluation Summary。
| Model | Reranking | Avg |
|---|---|---|
| bge-reranker-base | 57.78 | 57.78 |
| bge-reranker-large | 59.69 | 59.69 |
| bce-reranker-base_v1 | 60.06 | 60.06 |
- More evaluation details please check Reranker Models Evaluation Summary
NOTE:
- In
WithoutRerankersetting, ourbce-embedding-base_v1outperforms all the other embedding models. - With fixing the embedding model, our
bce-reranker-base_v1achieves the best performance. - The combination of
bce-embedding-base_v1andbce-reranker-base_v1is SOTA. - If you want to use embedding and rerank separately, please refer to BCEmbedding
The open source version of QAnything is based on QwenLM and has been fine-tuned on a large number of professional question-answering datasets. It greatly enhances the ability of question-answering. If you need to use it for commercial purposes, please follow the license of QwenLM. For more details, please refer to: QwenLM
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- 🏄 Try QAnything Online
- 📚 Try read.youdao.com | 有道速读
- 🛠️ Only use our BCEmbedding(embedding & rerank)
- 📖 FAQ
| System | Required item | Minimum Requirement | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Single NVIDIA GPU Memory or Double NVIDIA GPU Memory |
>= 16GB >= 11GB + 5G |
NVIDIA 3090 x 1 recommended NVIDIA 2080TI × 2 recommended |
| NVIDIA Driver Version | >= 525.105.17 | ||
| CUDA Version | >= 12.0 | ||
| Docker version | >= 20.10.5 | Docker install | |
| docker compose version | >= 2.23.3 | docker compose install |
| System | Required item | Minimum Requirement | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows 11 with WSL 2 | Single NVIDIA GPU Memory or Double NVIDIA GPU Memory |
>= 16GB >= 11GB + 5G |
NVIDIA 3090 NVIDIA 2080TI × 2 |
| GEFORCE EXPERIENCE | >= 546.33 | GEFORCE EXPERIENCE download | |
| Docker Desktop | >= 4.26.1（131620） | Docker Desktop for Windows |
git clone https://github.com/netease-youdao/QAnything.gitIf you are in the Windows11 system: Need to enter the WSL environment.
cd QAnything
bash run.sh # Start on GPU 0 by default.(Optional) Specify GPU startup
cd QAnything
bash run.sh 0 # gpu id 0(Optional) Specify multi-GPU startup
cd QAnything
bash run.sh 0,1 # gpu ids: 0,1, Please confirm how many GPUs are available. Supports up to two cards for startup. After successful installation, you can experience the application by entering the following addresses in your web browser.
- Front end address: http://
your_host:5052/qanything/
If you want to visit API, please refer to the following address:
- API address: http://
your_host:8777/api/ - For detailed API documentation, please refer to QAnything API documentation
If you are in the Windows11 system: Need to enter the WSL environment.
bash close.shmulti_paper_qa.mp4
information_extraction.mp4
various_files_qa.mp4
web_qa.mp4
If you need to access the API, please refer to the QAnything API documentation.
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If you need to contact our team privately, please reach out to us via the following email:
Reach out to the maintainer at one of the following places:
- Github issues
- Contact options listed on this GitHub profile
QAnything is licensed under Apache 2.0 License
QAnything adopts dependencies from the following:
- Thanks to our BCEmbedding for the excellent embedding and rerank model.
- Thanks to Qwen for strong base language models.
- Thanks to Triton Inference Server for providing great open source inference serving.
- Thanks to FasterTransformer for highly optimized LLM inference backend.
- Thanks to Langchain for the wonderful llm application framework.
- Thanks to Langchain-Chatchat for the inspiration provided on local knowledge base Q&A.
- Thanks to Milvus for the excellent semantic search library.
- Thanks to PaddleOCR for its ease-to-use OCR library.
- Thanks to Sanic for the powerful web service framework.