# for better performance and multilangauge support use "intfloat/multilingual-e5-large" (~2.5GB) or "intfloat/multilingual-e5-base" (~1.5GB)
# IMPORTANT: If you change the default model (sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2) and vice versa, you aren't able to use RAG Chat with your previous documents loaded in the WebUI! You need to re-embed them.
# IMPORTANT: If you change the embedding model (sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2) and vice versa, you aren't able to use RAG Chat with your previous documents loaded in the WebUI! You need to re-embed them.
@@ -420,6 +420,9 @@ if WEBUI_AUTH and WEBUI_SECRET_KEY == "":
CHROMA_DATA_PATH=f"{DATA_DIR}/vector_db"
# this uses the model defined in the Dockerfile ENV variable. If you dont use docker or docker based deployments such as k8s, the default embedding model will be used (sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2)
# device type embedding models - "cpu" (default), "cuda" (nvidia gpu required) or "mps" (apple silicon) - choosing this right can lead to better performance