README.md

Running Demos

To run a demo, use its config name; for example:

python run_demo.py -t QA1

The server and UI are are created as subprocesses that run in the background. Use the PIDs to kill them.

Use the --help flag for a list of available configurations.

Name	Comment	Config Name
Q&A	Abstractive Q&A demo using BM25, SBERT reranker and an FiD.	`QA1`
Q&A	Abstractive Q&A demo using ColBERT v2 (w/ PLAID index) retriever and an FiD reader.	`QA2`
Summary	Summarization using BM25, SBERT reranker and long-T5 reader	`SUM`
Image	Abstractive Q&A demo, with an image generation model for the answer.	`QADIFF`

ColBERT demo with a wikipedia index takes about 15 minutes to load up. Also, see remark about GPU usage in the README.