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Khoj 🦅
A natural language search engine for your personal notes, transactions and images
Table of Contents
- Features
- Demo
- Architecture
- Setup
- Use
- Upgrade
- Troubleshoot
- Miscellaneous
- Performance
- Development
- Credits
Features
- Natural: Advanced natural language understanding using Transformer based ML Models
- Local: Your personal data stays local. All search, indexing is done on your machine*
- Incremental: Incremental search for a fast, search-as-you-type experience
- Pluggable: Modular architecture makes it easy to plug in new data sources, frontends and ML models
- Multiple Sources: Search your Org-mode and Markdown notes, Beancount transactions and Photos
- Multiple Interfaces: Search using a Web Browser, Emacs or the API
Demo
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6413477/184735169-92c78bf1-d827-4663-9087-a1ea194b8f4b.mp4
Description
- Install Khoj via pip
- Start Khoj app
- Add this readme and khoj.el readme as org-mode for Khoj to index
- Search "Setup editor" on the Web and Emacs. Re-rank the results for better accuracy
- Top result is what we are looking for, the section to Install Khoj.el on Emacs
Analysis
- The results do not have any words used in the query
- Based on the top result it seems the re-ranking model understands that Emacs is an editor?
- The results incrementally update as the query is entered
- The results are re-ranked, for better accuracy, once user hits enter
Interfaces
Architecture
Setup
1. Install
pip install khoj-assistant
2. Start App
khoj
3. Configure
- Enable content types and point to files to search in the First Run Screen that pops up on app start
- Click configure and wait. The app will load ML model, generates embeddings and expose the search API
Use
- Khoj via Web
- Open http://localhost:8000/ via desktop interface or directly
- Khoj via Emacs
- Khoj via API
- See the Khoj FastAPI Swagger Docs, ReDocs
Upgrade
pip install --upgrade khoj-assistant
Troubleshoot
- Symptom: Errors out complaining about Tensors mismatch, null etc
- Mitigation: Disable
imagesearch using the desktop GUI
- Mitigation: Disable
- Symptom: Errors out with "Killed" in error message in Docker
- Fix: Increase RAM available to Docker Containers in Docker Settings
- Refer: StackOverflow Solution, Configure Resources on Docker for Mac
Miscellaneous
- The beta chat and search API endpoints use OpenAI API
- It is disabled by default
- To use it add your
openai-api-keyvia the app configure screen - Warning: If you use the above beta APIs, your query and top result(s) will be sent to OpenAI for processing
Performance
Query performance
- Semantic search using the bi-encoder is fairly fast at <50 ms
- Reranking using the cross-encoder is slower at <2s on 15 results. Tweak
top_kto tradeoff speed for accuracy of results - Filters in query (e.g by file, word or date) usually add <20ms to query latency
Indexing performance
- Indexing is more strongly impacted by the size of the source data
- Indexing 100K+ line corpus of notes takes about 10 minutes
- Indexing 4000+ images takes about 15 minutes and more than 8Gb of RAM
- Note: It should only take this long on the first run as the index is incrementally updated
Miscellaneous
- Testing done on a Mac M1 and a >100K line corpus of notes
- Search, indexing on a GPU has not been tested yet
Development
Setup
Using Pip
1. Install
git clone https://github.com/debanjum/khoj && cd khoj
python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
2. Configure
- Copy the
config/khoj_sample.ymlto~/.khoj/khoj.yml - Set
input-filesorinput-filterin each relevantcontent-typesection of~/.khoj/khoj.yml- Set
input-directoriesfield inimagecontent-typesection
- Set
- Delete
content-typeandprocessorsub-section(s) irrelevant for your use-case
3. Run
khoj -vv
Load ML model, generate embeddings and expose API to query notes, images, transactions etc specified in config YAML
4. Upgrade
# To Upgrade To Latest Stable Release
# Maps to the latest tagged version of khoj on master branch
pip install --upgrade khoj-assistant
# To Upgrade To Latest Pre-Release
# Maps to the latest commit on the master branch
pip install --upgrade --pre khoj-assistant
# To Upgrade To Specific Development Release.
# Useful to test, review a PR.
# Note: khoj-assistant is published to test PyPi on creating a PR
pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ khoj-assistant==0.1.5.dev57166025766
Using Docker
1. Clone
git clone https://github.com/debanjum/khoj && cd khoj
2. Configure
- Required: Update docker-compose.yml to mount your images, (org-mode or markdown) notes and beancount directories
- Optional: Edit application configuration in khoj_docker.yml
3. Run
docker-compose up -d
Note: The first run will take time. Let it run, it's mostly not hung, just generating embeddings
4. Upgrade
docker-compose build --pull
Using Conda
1. Install Dependencies
2. Install Khoj
git clone https://github.com/debanjum/khoj && cd khoj
conda env create -f config/environment.yml
conda activate khoj
3. Configure
- Copy the
config/khoj_sample.ymlto~/.khoj/khoj.yml - Set
input-filesorinput-filterin each relevantcontent-typesection of~/.khoj/khoj.yml- Set
input-directoriesfield inimagecontent-typesection
- Set
- Delete
content-type,processorsub-sections irrelevant for your use-case
4. Run
python3 -m src.main -vv
Load ML model, generate embeddings and expose API to query notes, images, transactions etc specified in config YAML
5. Upgrade
cd khoj
git pull origin master
conda deactivate khoj
conda env update -f config/environment.yml
conda activate khoj
Test
pytest
Credits
- Multi-QA MiniLM Model, All MiniLM Model for Text Search. See SBert Documentation
- OpenAI CLIP Model for Image Search. See SBert Documentation
- Charles Cave for OrgNode Parser
- Org.js to render Org-mode results on the Web interface
- Markdown-it to render Markdown results on the Web interface
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