HuggingBot v0.3

The third beta version of Hugging Face Question Answering Bot.

Changelog:

• Refactored repo structure
• Added benchmarking of retrieval methods and sentence-transformers models
• Enhanced retrieval with cross-embeddings
• Added Gradio app demo
• Added Hugging Face repositories to the index
• Added Hugging Face YouTube videos to the index

HuggingBot v0.2

This release marks the second beta version of the Hugging Face Question Answering Bot.

New features and improvements include:

• New architecture: The Bot is now separate from the API, which contains the index and model
• Uploading and downloading index to Hugging Face Hub
• Improved index embeddings through averaging method
• Extended index through Jupyter Notebooks support

HuggingBot v0.1

This release marks the first beta of the Hugging Face Question Answering Bot.

New features and improvements include:

• Enhanced context retrieval mechanism powered by FAISS
• Alpaca 7B language model with 4-bit quantization
• Improved documentation and installation instructions