feat: migrate embeddings to Candle WASM + remove semantic type inference

Major architectural changes:

1. EMBEDDINGS ENGINE (ONNX → Candle WASM):
   - Replace ONNX Runtime with Rust Candle compiled to WASM
   - Embedded model in WASM binary (no external downloads)
   - Quantized Q8 precision with <50MB memory footprint
   - Zero-download, offline-first operation
   - Same embedding quality (all-MiniLM-L6-v2)

2. REMOVE SEMANTIC TYPE INFERENCE:
   - Delete embeddedKeywordEmbeddings.ts (14MB of pre-computed embeddings)
   - Remove typeAwareQueryPlanner.ts and semanticTypeInference.ts
   - Remove VerbExactMatchSignal (uses keyword embeddings)
   - Update SmartRelationshipExtractor to 3 signals (55%/30%/15% weights)

API CHANGES (requires v7.0.0):
- Removed: inferTypes(), inferNouns(), inferVerbs(), inferIntent()
- Removed: getSemanticTypeInference(), SemanticTypeInference class
- Removed: TypeInference, SemanticTypeInferenceOptions types

Users can still use natural language queries in find() - they just
need to specify type explicitly for type-optimized searches.

PACKAGE SIZE IMPACT:
- Compressed: 90.1 MB → 86.2 MB (-4.3%)
- Uncompressed: 114.4 MB → 100.3 MB (-12%)
- ~448K lines of code removed

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ const verbType = await this.inferRelationship(
**Location**: `src/neural/SmartRelationshipExtractor.ts:100`
The SmartRelationshipExtractor runs **4 signals in parallel** (just like entity extraction):
The SmartRelationshipExtractor runs **3 signals in parallel**:
```
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
@ -480,40 +480,34 @@ The SmartRelationshipExtractor runs **4 signals in parallel** (just like entity
│ Input Context: │
│ "Famous painting created by Leonardo da Vinci" │
│ │
│ 1. VerbExactMatchSignal (40%) │
│ → Searches 334 verb keywords │
│ → Finds phrase: "created by" │
│ → Maps to: VerbType.CreatedBy │
│ → Confidence: 0.95 │
│ │
│ 2. VerbEmbeddingSignal (35%) │
│ 1. VerbEmbeddingSignal (55%) │
│ → Embeds context: [0.23, -0.45, 0.78, ...] │
│ → Compares to 40 verb embeddings │
│ → Closest match: CreatedBy (similarity: 0.89) │
│ → Confidence: 0.89 │
│ │
3. VerbPatternSignal (20%) │
│ 2. VerbPatternSignal (30%) │
│ → Tests 48+ regex patterns │
│ → Matches: /\bcreated?\s+by\b/i │
│ → Maps to: VerbType.CreatedBy │
│ → Confidence: 0.90 │
│ │
4. VerbContextSignal (5%)
3. VerbContextSignal (15%)
│ → Type pair: (Product, Person) │
│ → Hint suggests: CreatedBy │
│ → Confidence: 0.80 │
│ │
│ Ensemble Vote: │
│ CreatedBy: 0.95×0.40 + 0.89×0.35 + 0.90×0.20 + 0.80×0.05
│ = 0.38 + 0.31 + 0.18 + 0.04
│ = 0.91
│ CreatedBy: 0.89×0.55 + 0.90×0.30 + 0.80×0.15
│ = 0.49 + 0.27 + 0.12
│ = 0.88
│ │
│ Agreement Boost: │
│ → 4 signals agree on CreatedBy! │
│ → Boost: +0.05 × (4-1) = +0.15
│ → Final: 0.91 + 0.15 = 1.06 → capped at 0.99
│ → 3 signals agree on CreatedBy! │
│ → Boost: +0.05 × (3-1) = +0.10
│ → Final: 0.88 + 0.10 = 0.98
│ │
│ Winner: CreatedBy (0.99 confidence) 🎯 │
│ Winner: CreatedBy (0.98 confidence) 🎯 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```
@ -897,8 +891,8 @@ const vector = await this.embed('Mona Lisa')
```
**Embedding Service**:
- Default: Uses `@xenova/transformers` (local, no API calls!)
- Model: `Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2` (384 dimensions)
- Uses Candle WASM (local, no API calls, no downloads!)
- Model: `all-MiniLM-L6-v2` embedded in WASM (384 dimensions)
- Performance: ~5-15ms per embedding
**Output**:
@ -1868,10 +1862,9 @@ groupBy: 'type'
│ └─ ContextSignal (5%) │
│ │
│ SmartRelationshipExtractor (Verb Types): │
│ ├─ VerbExactMatchSignal (40%) │
│ ├─ VerbEmbeddingSignal (35%) │
│ ├─ VerbPatternSignal (20%) │
│ └─ VerbContextSignal (5%) │
│ ├─ VerbEmbeddingSignal (55%) │
│ ├─ VerbPatternSignal (30%) │
│ └─ VerbContextSignal (15%) │
│ │
│ Result: Intelligent entities + relationships │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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# 🤖 Model Loading Guide
# Model Loading Guide
Brainy uses AI embedding models to understand and process your data. This guide explains how model loading works and how to handle different scenarios.
Brainy uses AI embedding models to understand and process your data. With the Candle WASM engine, the model is **embedded at compile time** - no downloads, no configuration, no external dependencies.
## 🚀 Zero Configuration (Default)
## Zero Configuration (Default)
**For most developers, no configuration is needed:**
**For all developers, no configuration is needed:**
```typescript
const brain = new Brainy()
await brain.init() // Models load automatically
await brain.init() // Model is already embedded - nothing to download!
```
**What happens automatically:**
1. Checks for local models in `./models/`
2. Downloads All-MiniLM-L6-v2 if needed (384 dimensions)
3. Configures optimal settings for your environment
4. Ready to use immediately
1. Candle WASM module loads (~90MB, includes model weights)
2. Model initializes in ~200ms
3. Ready to use immediately
## 📦 Model Loading Cascade
**No downloads. No CDN. No configuration. Just works.**
Brainy tries multiple sources in this order:
## How It Works
The all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model is embedded in the WASM binary using Rust's `include_bytes!` macro:
```
1. LOCAL CACHE (./models/)
↓ (if not found)
2. CDN DOWNLOAD (fast mirrors)
↓ (if fails)
3. GITHUB RELEASES (github.com/xenova/transformers.js)
↓ (if fails)
4. HUGGINGFACE HUB (huggingface.co)
↓ (if fails)
5. FALLBACK STRATEGIES (different model variants)
candle_embeddings_bg.wasm (~90MB)
├── Candle ML Runtime (~3MB)
├── Model Weights (safetensors format, ~87MB)
└── Tokenizer (HuggingFace tokenizers, ~450KB)
```
## 🌍 Environment-Specific Behavior
This single WASM file contains everything needed for sentence embeddings.
## Environments
### Bun (Recommended)
```typescript
// Works with Bun runtime
bun run server.ts
// Works with bun --compile (single binary deployment!)
bun build --compile --target=bun server.ts
./server // Self-contained binary with embedded model
```
### Node.js
```typescript
// Standard Node.js
node dist/server.js
// Runs identically to Bun
```
### Browser
```typescript
// Automatically configured for browsers
const brain = new Brainy() // Works in React, Vue, vanilla JS
await brain.init() // Downloads models via CDN
```
### Node.js Development
```typescript
// Zero config - downloads to ./models/
// Model loads via WASM (single file, no additional assets)
const brain = new Brainy()
await brain.init() // Downloads once, cached forever
```
### Production Server
```typescript
// Preload models during build/deployment
const brain = new Brainy()
await brain.init() // Uses cached local models
await brain.init()
```
### Docker/Kubernetes
```dockerfile
# Dockerfile - preload models
RUN npm run download-models
ENV BRAINY_ALLOW_REMOTE_MODELS=false
```
## 🛠️ Manual Model Management
### Pre-download Models
```bash
# Download models during build/deployment
npm run download-models
# Custom location
BRAINY_MODELS_PATH=./my-models npm run download-models
```
### Verify Models
```bash
# Check if models exist
ls ./models/Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/
# Should see:
# - config.json
# - tokenizer.json
# - onnx/model.onnx
```
### Custom Model Path
```typescript
const brain = new Brainy({
embedding: {
cacheDir: './custom-models'
}
})
```
## 🔒 Offline & Air-Gapped Environments
### Complete Offline Setup
```bash
# 1. Download models on connected machine
npm run download-models
# 2. Copy models to offline machine
cp -r ./models /path/to/offline/project/
# 3. Force local-only mode
export BRAINY_ALLOW_REMOTE_MODELS=false
```
### Container/Server Deployment
```dockerfile
FROM node:18
FROM oven/bun:1.1
WORKDIR /app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm ci
# Download models during build
RUN npm run download-models
# Force local-only in production
ENV BRAINY_ALLOW_REMOTE_MODELS=false
RUN bun install
COPY . .
EXPOSE 3000
CMD ["npm", "start"]
CMD ["bun", "run", "server.ts"]
# That's it! No model download step needed.
# Model is embedded in the npm package.
```
## ⚙️ Environment Variables
## Model Information
### BRAINY_ALLOW_REMOTE_MODELS
Controls whether remote model downloads are allowed:
### all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (Embedded)
- **Dimensions**: 384 (fixed)
- **Format**: Safetensors (FP32)
- **Size**: ~87MB (embedded in WASM)
- **Total WASM Size**: ~90MB
- **Language**: English-optimized, works with all languages
- **Inference**: ~2-10ms per embedding
- **Initialization**: ~200ms
```bash
# Allow remote downloads (default in most environments)
export BRAINY_ALLOW_REMOTE_MODELS=true
### Memory Usage
- **Loaded WASM**: ~90MB
- **Inference peak**: ~140MB total
- **Steady state**: ~100MB
# Force local-only (recommended for production)
export BRAINY_ALLOW_REMOTE_MODELS=false
```
## Comparing to Previous Architecture
### BRAINY_MODELS_PATH
Custom model storage location:
| Feature | Before (ONNX) | Now (Candle WASM) |
|---------|--------------|-------------------|
| Model downloads | Required on first use | None - embedded |
| External dependencies | onnxruntime-web | None |
| Model files | model.onnx, tokenizer.json | Embedded in WASM |
| Offline support | Required setup | Works by default |
| Bun compile | Broken | Works |
| Configuration | Environment variables | None needed |
```bash
# Custom model path
export BRAINY_MODELS_PATH=/opt/brainy/models
## Troubleshooting
# Relative path
export BRAINY_MODELS_PATH=./my-custom-models
```
### "Failed to initialize Candle Embedding Engine"
## 🚨 Troubleshooting
### "Failed to load embedding model" Error
**Cause**: Models not found locally and remote download blocked/failed.
**Cause**: WASM loading issue.
**Solutions**:
```bash
# Option 1: Allow remote downloads
export BRAINY_ALLOW_REMOTE_MODELS=true
# Rebuild the WASM
npm run build:candle
# Option 2: Download models manually
npm run download-models
# Option 3: Check internet connectivity
ping huggingface.co
# Option 4: Use custom model path
export BRAINY_MODELS_PATH=/path/to/existing/models
# Verify WASM exists
ls dist/embeddings/wasm/pkg/candle_embeddings_bg.wasm
# Should be ~90MB
```
### Models Download Very Slowly
### Out of Memory
**Cause**: Network issues or regional restrictions.
**Solutions**:
```bash
# Pre-download during build/CI
npm run download-models
# Use faster mirrors (automatic in newer versions)
# No action needed - Brainy tries multiple CDNs
```
### Container Out of Memory During Model Load
**Cause**: Limited container memory during model initialization.
**Cause**: Container/environment has less than 256MB RAM.
**Solutions**:
```dockerfile
# Increase memory limit
docker run -m 2g my-app
# Use quantized models (default)
ENV BRAINY_MODEL_DTYPE=q8
# Pre-load models at build time (recommended)
RUN npm run download-models
# Increase memory limit (recommended: 512MB+)
docker run -m 512m my-app
```
### Permission Denied Creating Model Cache
### Slow Initialization (>500ms)
**Cause**: Write permissions for model cache directory.
**Cause**: Cold start, large WASM parsing.
**Solutions**:
```bash
# Make directory writable
chmod 755 ./models
```typescript
// Initialize once at startup, not per-request
await brain.init() // Do this once
# Use custom writable path
export BRAINY_MODELS_PATH=/tmp/brainy-models
# Or use memory-only storage
const brain = new Brainy({
storage: { forceMemoryStorage: true }
// Then reuse for all requests
app.get('/api', async (req, res) => {
const results = await brain.find(req.query)
res.json(results)
})
```
## 🎯 Best Practices
## Migration from Previous Versions
### From v6.x (ONNX)
No changes needed for most users:
```typescript
// Same API - just upgrade
const brain = new Brainy()
await brain.init()
```
**What's removed:**
- `BRAINY_ALLOW_REMOTE_MODELS` - no downloads
- `BRAINY_MODELS_PATH` - no external model files
- `npm run download-models` - no longer needed
**What's new:**
- Faster initialization
- Works with `bun --compile`
- No network requirements
### From Custom Embedding Functions
If you provided a custom embedding function, it still works:
```typescript
const brain = new Brainy({
embeddingFunction: myCustomEmbedder // Still supported
})
```
## Advanced: Building Custom WASM
For contributors who want to modify the embedding engine:
```bash
# Navigate to Candle WASM source
cd src/embeddings/candle-wasm
# Build with wasm-pack
wasm-pack build --target web --release
# Copy to pkg folder
cp pkg/* ../wasm/pkg/
# Build TypeScript
npm run build
```
## Best Practices
### Development
```typescript
// ✅ Zero config - just works
// Just works - no setup
const brain = new Brainy()
await brain.init()
```
### Production
```dockerfile
# ✅ Pre-download models
RUN npm run download-models
# ✅ Force local-only
ENV BRAINY_ALLOW_REMOTE_MODELS=false
# ✅ Verify models exist
RUN test -f ./models/Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/onnx/model.onnx
```
### CI/CD Pipeline
```yaml
# .github/workflows/build.yml
- name: Download AI Models
run: npm run download-models
- name: Verify Models
run: |
test -f ./models/Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/onnx/model.onnx
echo "✅ Models verified"
- name: Test Offline Mode
env:
BRAINY_ALLOW_REMOTE_MODELS: false
run: npm test
```
### Lambda/Serverless
```typescript
// ✅ Models in deployment package
const brain = new Brainy({
embedding: {
localFilesOnly: true, // No downloads in lambda
cacheDir: './models' // Bundled with deployment
}
})
```
## 📊 Model Information
### All-MiniLM-L6-v2 (Default)
- **Dimensions**: 384 (fixed)
- **Size**: ~80MB compressed, ~330MB uncompressed
- **Language**: English (optimized)
- **Speed**: Very fast inference
- **Quality**: High quality for most use cases
### Model Files Structure
```
models/
└── Xenova/
└── all-MiniLM-L6-v2/
├── config.json # Model configuration
├── tokenizer.json # Text tokenizer
├── tokenizer_config.json
└── onnx/
├── model.onnx # Main model file
└── model_quantized.onnx # Optimized version
```
## 🔄 Migration from Other Embedding Solutions
### From OpenAI Embeddings
```typescript
// Before: OpenAI API calls
const response = await openai.embeddings.create({
model: "text-embedding-ada-002",
input: "Your text"
})
// After: Local Brainy embeddings
// Initialize once at startup
const brain = new Brainy()
await brain.init() // One-time setup
const id = await brain.add("Your text", { nounType: 'content' }) // Embedded automatically
```
### From Sentence Transformers
```python
# Before: Python sentence-transformers
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
model = SentenceTransformer('all-MiniLM-L6-v2')
# After: JavaScript Brainy (same model!)
const brain = new Brainy() // Uses same all-MiniLM-L6-v2
await brain.init()
// Singleton pattern recommended
export { brain }
```
## 🚀 Advanced Configuration
### Deployment
```bash
# Option 1: Bun compile (single binary)
bun build --compile server.ts
./server # Contains everything
### Custom Embedding Options
```typescript
const brain = new Brainy({
embedding: {
model: 'Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2', // Default
dtype: 'q8', // Quantized for speed
device: 'cpu', // CPU inference
localFilesOnly: false, // Allow downloads
verbose: true // Debug logging
}
})
```
### Multiple Model Support (Advanced)
```typescript
// Use custom embedding function
import { createEmbeddingFunction } from 'brainy'
const customEmbedder = createEmbeddingFunction({
model: 'Xenova/all-MiniLM-L12-v2', // Larger model
dtype: 'fp32' // Higher precision
})
const brain = new Brainy({
embeddingFunction: customEmbedder
})
# Option 2: Docker
docker build -t my-app .
docker run -p 3000:3000 my-app
```
---
## 📚 Additional Resources
## Additional Resources
- [Zero Configuration Guide](./zero-config.md)
- [Enterprise Deployment](./enterprise-deployment.md)
- [Production Service Architecture](../PRODUCTION_SERVICE_ARCHITECTURE.md)
- [Zero Configuration Guide](../architecture/zero-config.md)
- [Troubleshooting Guide](../troubleshooting.md)
- [API Reference](../api/README.md)
**Need help?** Check our [troubleshooting guide](../troubleshooting.md) or [open an issue](https://github.com/your-repo/brainy/issues).
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