Create a Cohere inference endpoint | Elasticsearch API documentation (8x-unreleased)

Create a Cohere inference endpoint Generally available; Added in 8.13.0

PUT /_inference/{task_type}/{cohere_inference_id}

Create an inference endpoint to perform an inference task with the cohere service. ##Required authorization

Cluster privileges: manage_inference

Path parameters

task_type string Required

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

Values are completion, rerank, or text_embedding.
cohere_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 cohere.
service_settings object Required
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- api_key string Required
  
  A valid API key for your Cohere account. You can find or create your Cohere API keys on the Cohere API key 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.
  
  External documentation
- embedding_type string
  
  Values are binary, bit, byte, float, or int8.
- model_id string
  For a completion, rerank, or text_embedding task, the name of the model to use for the inference task.
  
  For the available completion models, refer to the Cohere command docs.
  
  For the available rerank models, refer to the Cohere rerank docs.
  
  For the available text_embedding models, refer to Cohere embed docs.
  
  The default value for a text embedding task is embed-english-v2.0.
- rate_limit object
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  requests_per_minute number
  
  The number of requests allowed per minute.
- similarity string
  
  Values are cosine, dot_product, or l2_norm.
task_settings object
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- input_type string
  
  Values are classification, clustering, ingest, or search.
- return_documents boolean
  
  For a rerank task, return doc text within the results.
- top_n number
  
  For a rerank task, the number of most relevant documents to return. It defaults to the number of the documents. If this inference endpoint is used in a text_similarity_reranker retriever query and top_n is set, it must be greater than or equal to rank_window_size in the query.
- truncate string
  
  Values are END, NONE, or START.

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 text_embedding, rerank, or completion.

PUT /_inference/{task_type}/{cohere_inference_id}

PUT _inference/text_embedding/cohere-embeddings
{
    "service": "cohere",
    "service_settings": {
        "api_key": "Cohere-Api-key",
        "model_id": "embed-english-light-v3.0",
        "embedding_type": "byte"
    }
}

curl \
 --request PUT 'http://api.example.com/_inference/{task_type}/{cohere_inference_id}' \
 --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
 --data '"{\n    \"service\": \"cohere\",\n    \"service_settings\": {\n        \"api_key\": \"Cohere-Api-key\",\n        \"model_id\": \"embed-english-light-v3.0\",\n        \"embedding_type\": \"byte\"\n    }\n}"'

Request examples

Run `PUT _inference/text_embedding/cohere-embeddings` to create an inference endpoint that performs a text embedding task.

{
    "service": "cohere",
    "service_settings": {
        "api_key": "Cohere-Api-key",
        "model_id": "embed-english-light-v3.0",
        "embedding_type": "byte"
    }
}

Run `PUT _inference/rerank/cohere-rerank` to create an inference endpoint that performs a rerank task.

{
    "service": "cohere",
    "service_settings": {
        "api_key": "Cohere-API-key",
        "model_id": "rerank-english-v3.0"
    },
    "task_settings": {
        "top_n": 10,
        "return_documents": true
    }
}

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