Set Up a Pre-Trained Cold Start Model for Smart Answers
Lucidworks provides these pre-trained cold start models for Smart Answers:
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qna-coldstart-large- this is a large model trained on variety of corpuses and tasks.
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qna-coldstart-multilingual- covers 16 languages. List of supported languages: Arabic, Chinese-simplified, Chinese-traditional, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Russian.
When you use these models, you do not need to run the model training job. Instead, you run a job that deploys the model into Fusion. The Create Seldon Core Model Deployment job deploys your model as a Docker image in Kubernetes, which you can scale up or down like other Fusion services.
These models are a good basis for a cold start solution if your data does not contain much domain-specific terminology. Otherwise, consider training a model using your existing content.
| Dimension size of vectors for both models is 512. You might need this information when creating collections in Milvus. | 
1. Deploy a pre-trained cold-start model into Fusion
The pre-trained cold-start models are deployed using a Fusion job called Create Seldon Core Model Deployment. This job downloads the selected pre-trained model and installs it in Fusion.
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Navigate to Collections > Jobs. 
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Select Add > Create Seldon Core Model Deployment. 
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Enter a Job ID, such as deploy-qna-coldstart-multilingualordeploy-qna-coldstart-large.
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Enter the Model Name, one of the following: - 
qna-coldstart-multilingual
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qna-coldstart-large
 
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In the Docker Repository field, enter lucidworks.
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In the Image Name field, enter one of the following: - 
qna-coldstart-multilingual:v1.1
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qna-coldstart-large:v1.1
 
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Leave the Kubernetes Secret Name for Model Repo field empty. 
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In the Output Column Names for Model field, enter one of the following: - 
qna-coldstart-multilingual:[vector]
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qna-coldstart-large:[vector, compressed_vector]
 
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Click Save. 
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Click Run > Start to start the deployment job.