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new: support pluggable stemmer and inline stopwords for Bm25 - #655
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Allow passing a custom stemmer (any object with a stem_word(word) -> str method, per the new Stemmer protocol) to Bm25, overriding the default SnowballStemmer. When a custom stemmer is provided, the supported-languages check is skipped, enabling languages without a Snowball algorithm such as Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Slovak, Bulgarian, or Vietnamese. Also allow passing stopwords inline, overriding the per-language stopwords file shipped with the model. Both parameters are forwarded to parallel workers. Default behavior is unchanged when neither parameter is given. Fixes qdrant#654
- custom stemmer callable is applied to tokens - default Snowball path is unchanged - unsupported language (Polish) works with a custom stemmer and still raises without one - inline stopwords override the file-based stopwords
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In `@fastembed/sparse/bm25.py`:
- Around line 130-131: Update the stopword initialization in the BM25
constructor to lowercase each supplied stopword before storing it in
_custom_stopwords, matching the normalization performed by _stem(); preserve
None handling and add a mixed-case stopword test.
- Around line 125-126: Update the constructor’s stopwords-loading logic so
provided stemmers cannot bypass language validation when fallback files are
used. Only open model_dir / f"{language}.txt" for supported languages; when
language is unsupported and stopwords are not inline, use an empty stopwords set
instead, while preserving inline stopwords behavior.
- Around line 222-223: Make the custom stemmer path safe for parallel execution:
document on Bm25’s stemmer configuration that values passed through
Bm25Worker.start must be pickleable and importable, and add a parallel test
using a module-level stemmer. Alternatively, replace direct stemmer instances
with an importable factory or configuration payload that Bm25 can reconstruct in
worker processes.
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In `@fastembed/sparse/bm25.py`:
- Line 126: Update the stopwords annotation in Bm25 to accept Iterable[str] |
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- Around line 161-162: Update the Bm25 model-description or download flow so
inline stopwords are detected before download_model runs and bundled stopword
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Skip bundled stopword files when inline stopwords are provided.
Bm25 selects inline stopwords after download_model runs. The model description still includes every language file in additional_files, so the download path requests those files even though _load_stopwords is skipped. Exclude the bundled stopword files from the download when stopwords is provided.
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In `@fastembed/sparse/bm25.py` around lines 161 - 162, Update the Bm25
model-description or download flow so inline stopwords are detected before
download_model runs and bundled stopword files are excluded from
additional_files; retain the existing bundled-file behavior when no inline
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there is no include or exclude api
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@joein, you are right: download_model has no include/exclude API. My proposed mechanism was incorrect.
The underlying concern still applies. download_model builds its download patterns from model.additional_files, which contains the bundled BM25 stopword files. When inline stopwords are supplied, Bm25 could pass a separate model description with additional_files=[]. When inline stopwords are not supplied, it should pass the original description. This would avoid changing the shared model description.
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Closes #654, requested by @pjastrzebskiwelyo.
Adds a
stemmerparameter toBm25: any object with astem_word(word: str) -> strmethod (a smallStemmerprotocol, satisfied bypy_rust_stemmers.SnowballStemmeramong others). When a custom stemmer is provided, the language check is relaxed, which enables languages without a Snowball algorithm such as Polish. An optionalstopwordsparameter lets callers pass inline stopwords instead of the file shipped with the model, which those languages need too.No new dependencies, and defaults are unchanged: without the new parameters, behavior is byte-for-byte the same (there is a test pinning the default Snowball path).
New tests cover a custom stemmer being used, an unsupported language working with one, inline stopwords overriding the file-based set, and the default path staying unchanged. They fail without the change; the sparse embedding suite passes with it.