Add support for GLiNER models, closes #862

src/python/txtai/pipeline/text/entity.py

@@ -2,6 +2,17 @@
 Entity module
 """
 
+# Conditional import
+try:
+    from gliner import GLiNER
+
+    GLINER = True
+except ImportError:
+    GLINER = False
+
+from transformers.utils import cached_file
+
+from ...models import Models
 from ..hfpipeline import HFPipeline
 
 
@@ -11,7 +22,18 @@ class Entity(HFPipeline):
     """
 
     def __init__(self, path=None, quantize=False, gpu=True, model=None, **kwargs):
-        super().__init__("token-classification", path, quantize, gpu, model, **kwargs)
+        # Create a new entity pipeline
+        self.gliner = self.isgliner(path)
+        if self.gliner:
+            if not GLINER:
+                raise ImportError('GLiNER is not available - install "pipeline" extra to enable')
+
+            # GLiNER entity pipeline
+            self.pipeline = GLiNER.from_pretrained(path)
+            self.pipeline = self.pipeline.to(Models.device(Models.deviceid(gpu)))
+        else:
+            # Standard entity pipeline
+            super().__init__("token-classification", path, quantize, gpu, model, **kwargs)
 
     def __call__(self, text, labels=None, aggregate="simple", flatten=None, join=False, workers=0):
         """
@@ -30,7 +52,7 @@ def __call__(self, text, labels=None, aggregate="simple", flatten=None, join=Fal
         """
 
         # Run token classification pipeline
-        results = self.pipeline(text, aggregation_strategy=aggregate, num_workers=workers)
+        results = self.execute(text, labels, aggregate, workers)
 
         # Convert results to a list if necessary
         if isinstance(text, str):
@@ -50,6 +72,58 @@ def __call__(self, text, labels=None, aggregate="simple", flatten=None, join=Fal
 
         return outputs[0] if isinstance(text, str) else outputs
 
+    def isgliner(self, path):
+        """
+        Tests if path is a GLiNER model.
+
+        Args:
+            path: model path
+
+        Returns:
+            True if this is a GLiNER model, False otherwise
+        """
+
+        try:
+            # Test if this model has a gliner_config.json file
+            return cached_file(path_or_repo_id=path, filename="gliner_config.json") is not None
+
+        # Ignore this error - invalid repo or directory
+        except OSError:
+            pass
+
+        return False
+
+    def execute(self, text, labels, aggregate, workers):
+        """
+        Runs the entity extraction pipeline.
+
+        Args:
+            text: text|list
+            labels: list of entity type labels to accept, defaults to None which accepts all
+            aggregate: method to combine multi token entities - options are "simple" (default), "first", "average" or "max"
+            workers: number of concurrent workers to use for processing data, defaults to None
+
+        Returns:
+            list of entities and labels
+        """
+
+        if self.gliner:
+            # Extract entities with GLiNER. Use default CoNLL-2003 labels when not otherwise provided.
+            results = self.pipeline.batch_predict_entities(
+                text if isinstance(text, list) else [text], labels if labels else ["person", "organization", "location"]
+            )
+
+            # Map results to same format as Transformers token classifier
+            entities = []
+            for result in results:
+                entities.append([{"word": x["text"], "entity_group": x["label"], "score": x["score"]} for x in result])
+
+            # Return extracted entities
+            return entities if isinstance(text, list) else entities[0]
+
+        # Standard Transformers token classification pipeline
+        return self.pipeline(text, aggregation_strategy=aggregate, num_workers=workers)
+
     def accept(self, etype, labels):
         """
         Determines if entity type is in valid entity type.

test/python/testoptional.py

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ def setUpClass(cls):
             "docling.document_converter",
             "duckdb",
             "fastapi",
+            "gliner",
             "grand-cypher",
             "grand-graph",
             "hnswlib",
@@ -186,6 +187,7 @@ def testPipeline(self):
             AudioMixer,
             AudioStream,
             Caption,
+            Entity,
             FileToHTML,
             HFOnnx,
             HFTrainer,
@@ -213,6 +215,9 @@ def testPipeline(self):
         with self.assertRaises(ImportError):
             Caption()
 
+        with self.assertRaises(ImportError):
+            Entity("neuml/gliner-bert-tiny")
+
         with self.assertRaises(ImportError):
             FileToHTML(backend="docling")
 

test/python/testpipeline/testtext/testentity.py

@@ -52,3 +52,12 @@ def testEntityTypes(self):
         # Run entity extraction
         entities = self.entity("Canada's last fully intact ice shelf has suddenly collapsed, forming a Manhattan-sized iceberg", labels=["PER"])
         self.assertFalse(entities)
+
+    def testGliner(self):
+        """
+        Test entity pipeline with a GLiNER model
+        """
+
+        entity = Entity("neuml/gliner-bert-tiny")
+        entities = entity("My name is John Smith.", flatten=True)
+        self.assertEqual(entities, ["John Smith"])