Create a Hugging Face inference endpoint | Elasticsearch API documentation (v8)

Create a Hugging Face inference endpoint Added in 8.12.0

PUT /_inference/{task_type}/{huggingface_inference_id}

Create an inference endpoint to perform an inference task with the hugging_face service.

You must first create an inference endpoint on the Hugging Face endpoint page to get an endpoint URL. Select the model you want to use on the new endpoint creation page (for example intfloat/e5-small-v2), then select the sentence embeddings task under the advanced configuration section. Create the endpoint and copy the URL after the endpoint initialization has been finished.

The following models are recommended for the Hugging Face service:

all-MiniLM-L6-v2
all-MiniLM-L12-v2
all-mpnet-base-v2
e5-base-v2
e5-small-v2
multilingual-e5-base
multilingual-e5-small

Path parameters

task_type string Required

The type of the inference task that the model will perform.

Value is text_embedding.
huggingface_inference_id string Required

The unique identifier of the inference endpoint.

application/json

Body

chunking_settings object
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- max_chunk_size number
  
  The maximum size of a chunk in words. This value cannot be higher than 300 or lower than 20 (for sentence strategy) or 10 (for word strategy).
- overlap number
  
  The number of overlapping words for chunks. It is applicable only to a word chunking strategy. This value cannot be higher than half the max_chunk_size value.
- sentence_overlap number
  
  The number of overlapping sentences for chunks. It is applicable only for a sentence chunking strategy. It can be either 1 or 0.
- strategy string
  
  The chunking strategy: sentence or word.
service string Required

Value is hugging_face.
service_settings object Required
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- api_key string Required
  
  A valid access token for your HuggingFace account. You can create or find your access tokens on the HuggingFace settings page.
  
  IMPORTANT: You need to provide the API key only once, during the inference model creation. The get inference endpoint API does not retrieve your API key. After creating the inference model, you cannot change the associated API key. If you want to use a different API key, delete the inference model and recreate it with the same name and the updated API key.
  
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- rate_limit object
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  requests_per_minute number
  
  The number of requests allowed per minute.
- url string Required
  
  The URL endpoint to use for the requests.

Responses

200 application/json
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- chunking_settings object
  
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  max_chunk_size number
  
  The maximum size of a chunk in words. This value cannot be higher than 300 or lower than 20 (for sentence strategy) or 10 (for word strategy).
  
  overlap number
  
  The number of overlapping words for chunks. It is applicable only to a word chunking strategy. This value cannot be higher than half the max_chunk_size value.
  
  sentence_overlap number
  
  The number of overlapping sentences for chunks. It is applicable only for a sentence chunking strategy. It can be either 1 or 0.
  
  strategy string
  
  The chunking strategy: sentence or word.
- service string Required
  
  The service type
- service_settings object Required
- task_settings object
- inference_id string Required
  
  The inference Id
- task_type string Required
  
  Values are sparse_embedding, text_embedding, rerank, completion, or chat_completion.

PUT /_inference/{task_type}/{huggingface_inference_id}

curl \
 --request PUT 'http://api.example.com/_inference/{task_type}/{huggingface_inference_id}' \
 --header "Authorization: $API_KEY" \
 --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
 --data '"{\n    \"service\": \"hugging_face\",\n    \"service_settings\": {\n        \"api_key\": \"hugging-face-access-token\", \n        \"url\": \"url-endpoint\" \n    }\n}"'

Request example

Run `PUT _inference/text_embedding/hugging-face-embeddings` to create an inference endpoint that performs a `text_embedding` task type.

{
    "service": "hugging_face",
    "service_settings": {
        "api_key": "hugging-face-access-token", 
        "url": "url-endpoint" 
    }
}