Backfill issue -423 — The AI Toolchain

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AI & LLM Tooling

◆ AI Model & Data Infrastructure

NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

v2.2.0 NOTES

Triton v2.2.0 adds TensorFlow 2.x support, per-request inference timeouts, and API versioning

└──▷ GET THIS VERSION

$ git clone --branch v2.2.0 https://github.com/triton-inference-server/server.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v2.2.0

└──▷ TRY IT

Launch Triton using TensorFlow 2.x instead of the TensorFlow 1.x default — useful when your saved models require TF2 semantics.

$ tritonserver --backend-config=tensorflow,version=2 --model-repository=/models

›Adds TensorFlow 2.x support alongside TensorFlow 1.x, selectable at launch via --backend-config=tensorflow,version=<version> (set <version> to 1 or 2; default is 1).
›Adds TRITON_CLIENT_SKIP_EXAMPLES CMake option to disable building client examples.
›Adds inference request timeout option to Python and C++ client libraries.
›Adds explicit major/minor versioning to TRITONSERVER and TRITONBACKEND APIs.

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◆ VECTOR DB RAG

Weaviate

0.22.15 NOTES

Weaviate 0.22.15 adds optional compound-word splitting in the Contextionary and multi-threaded classification.

└──▷ GET THIS VERSION

$ git clone --branch 0.22.15 https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout 0.22.15

└──▷ USE IT

Enable compound splitting for a German-language deployment where arbitrary compound nouns would otherwise be missed during vectorization.

yaml

ENABLE_COMPOUND_SPLITTING=true

›Adds ENABLE_COMPOUND_SPLITTING environment variable on the Contextionary container to split otherwise-unrecognized compound words (e.g. 'thunderstormcloud' → 'thunderstorm + cloud') during vectorization; disabled by default due to up-to-100% import-time overhead, but especially valuable for compounding languages like Dutch and German.
›Both kNN and contextual classification types now run multi-threaded, using one thread per available CPU core, significantly speeding up classification on larger machines.

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The AI Toolchain · curated daily · August 28, 2020
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The AI Toolchain — issue -423, August 28, 2020

NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

Weaviate