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Avoid ONNX session load for token counts - #640

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Summary

Fixes #584.

This updates lazy token_count() paths so they load tokenizer files from the resolved model directory without initializing ONNX sessions. The change covers text embeddings, cross-encoder rerankers, sparse BM42, late-interaction embeddings, and multimodal late-interaction wrappers.

The lazy-load regression tests now exercise token_count() before embedding/reranking and still assert that the ONNX model session has not been loaded yet.

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  • Static search of the targeted token_count() paths for remaining ONNX-session loading calls
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Thanks for this, and sorry for the slow review. The approach is right, so I rebased onto main and pushed a few commits on top. Please reset your local branch to this one before pushing again.

  • Token counting goes through one _ensure_tokenizer() per mixin, and the unreachable _model_dir fallback is gone.
  • Tokenizer-derived state (ColBERT's query tokenizer, SigLIP's padding, and the BM42 and miniCOIL vocab lookups) is built in _load_tokenizer() overrides, so it no longer depends on load order.
  • Bm42.query_embed() no longer loads the ONNX model either.
  • lazy_load=True with parallel now works for BM42, miniCOIL, and ColBERT ([Bug]: Bm42 and miniCOIL fail in parallel embedding with lazy_load=True #749). ColBERT used to return wrong vectors there.

Lazy and eager outputs match across the models I tried.

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Token counting now initializes or uses the tokenizer without loading the ONNX model across text, reranking, late-interaction, multimodal, and sparse paths. ColBERT and BM42 initialize tokenizer-derived state for post-processing. MiniCOIL initializes post-processing state when output processing needs it. Tests check that token counting leaves the model unloaded.

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Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 50088

MiniCOIL’s current lazy post-processing path is not shown to fail, but the new behavior lacks a focused test. The change is mergeable with that bounded coverage follow-up.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 50088

Token counting now avoids loading an ONNX model. The reviewed paths do not show a new external entrypoint or broader access to model files, but concurrent first use and recovery from partial initialization remain unverified.

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  • inferred — The reviewed change affects local model instances and their model-directory files. The inspected MiniCOIL entrypoint does not add a caller-selected post-processing file path or a new external route.

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  • observed — MiniCOIL post-processing remains internal to the embedding flow and checks that its output context contains input IDs before consuming tokenizer-derived state.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Publishing MiniCOIL's resolver last supports retry after earlier post-processing load failures, but the inspected code does not establish safe publication for simultaneous first-use calls.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 23.08% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 39 functions across 7 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing ONNX session loading during token counting.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the lazy token_count changes, affected components, regression tests, and validation performed.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue [#584] requires token_count() without loading the ONNX model. OnnxTextModel and OnnxMultimodalModel now load tokenizer state through _ensure_tokenizer() and _load_tokenizer() without c…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within issue [#584]. Tokenizer-derived state changes for ColBERT, BM42, miniCOIL, and SigLIP support independent token counting. The BM42 query path and related regression tests prote…
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fastembed/sparse/minicoil.py (1)

295-300: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover MiniCOIL deferred post-processing.

The MiniCOIL tests use eager models, so they do not execute the new vocab_resolver is None branch. The lazy tests cover SPLADE and OpenSearch only. Add a MiniCOIL test that calls token_count, then runs parallel embedding, and checks canonical sparse output.

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+def test_minicoil_lazy_load_parallel_processing() -> None:
+    is_ci = os.getenv("CI")
+    model = SparseTextEmbedding(model_name="Qdrant/minicoil-v1", lazy_load=True)
+    docs = ["Hello World"] * 10
+
+    assert model.token_count(docs) > 0
+    embeddings = list(model.embed(docs, batch_size=6, parallel=2))
+    expected = CANONICAL_COLUMN_VALUES["Qdrant/minicoil-v1"]
+
+    assert len(embeddings) == len(docs)
+    for embedding in embeddings:
+        assert embedding.indices.tolist() == expected["indices"]
+        assert embedding.values.tolist() == pytest.approx(expected["values"])
+
+    if is_ci:
+        delete_model_cache(model.model._model_dir)
+
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Review comment at @fastembed/sparse/minicoil.py around lines 295 - 300:
Cover MiniCOIL’s deferred post-processing branch with a lazy-load test: call
`token_count` before parallel `embed`, then verify the embeddings match the
canonical sparse indices and values. Use the existing MiniCOIL test and
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- Around line 295-300: Cover MiniCOIL’s deferred post-processing branch with a
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[Feature]: make token count accessible without loading the model

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