# Hugging Face — Retrieval Augmented Generation with Huggingface Transformers and Ray

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2021-02-10
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ray-rag
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2268-retrieval-augmented-generation-with-huggingface-transformers-and-ray
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: RAG

Hugging Face announces the integration of Ray into the RAG model's document retrieval mechanism, achieving a 2x speedup per retrieval call and improved scalability for distributed fine-tuning.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/ray-rag:

> In this blog post, we introduce the integration of Ray, a library for building scalable applications, into the RAG contextual document retrieval mechanism. This speeds up retrieval calls by 2x and improves the scalability of RAG distributed fine-tuning.

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