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Bilingual RAG Support Chatbot & MLOps Control Dashboard (BiliRAG)

🚀 Live Public Web Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/divinedemon97/bilingual-rag-support

Welcome to BiliRAG (Bilingual RAG Support Chatbot), a production-grade, highly concurrent conversational assistant and MLOps analytics dashboard designed to serve bilingual (Urdu & English) customer support and logistics queries.

This repository implements a robust, real-time vector search and RAG orchestration stack that mirrors elite industry practices in ML latency optimization, concurrency engineering, on-prem resource constraints, and release qualification.

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🛠️ System Architecture

graph TD
    User([User/Client]) -->|Bilingual Chat Query| API[FastAPI Async Web Server]
    API -->|Async/Await Request Pipeline| ModelSvc[Embedding Service]
    API -->|Async Event| Redis[(Redis Broker)]
    Redis -->|Queue Tasks| Celery[Celery Worker]
    Celery -->|Log Ingestion/QA Logging| DB[(SQLite/Postgres Log DB)]
    
    subgraph "Vector Search Layer"
        ModelSvc -->|Generate Embeddings| ModelChoice{Embedding Mode}
        ModelChoice -->|FP32| FP32[Standard PyTorch Embeddings]
        ModelChoice -->|INT8 Quantized| INT8[ONNX Dynamic INT8 Quantized]
        
        FP32 & INT8 --> Vector[Query Vector]
        Vector --> SearchChoice{Retrieval Engine}
        SearchChoice -->|Brute-Force| Brute[Brute-force Cosine Similarity]
        SearchChoice -->|HNSW Flat| HNSW[FAISS HNSW Index]
    end
    
    HNSW & Brute --> Results[Top Matches & Confidence Score]
    Results --> ConfidenceEval{Confidence Assessment}
    
    ConfidenceEval -->|> High Threshold 0.8| DirectAnswer[Direct Vetted FAQ Answer - 95% FAQ Served]
    ConfidenceEval -->|Low - High Threshold| RAGAnswer[Generative RAG formulation via context]
    ConfidenceEval -->|< Low Threshold 0.5| Escalation[Escalate to Human Agent - Containment Flow]
    
    DirectAnswer & RAGAnswer & Escalation --> Log[Automated Relevance Log Entry]
    Log -->|Async Write| Celery

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🚀 Key MLOps Achievements & Features

1. Bilingual Urdu/English Support
   • Integrates the multilingual paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 transformer, mapping English and Urdu queries into a unified semantic vector space.
   • Features zero-dependency, ultra-fast language auto-detection utilizing custom Unicode range checks.
2. FAISS HNSW-Based Retrieval Engine
   • Replaces O($N$) brute-force cosine similarity searches with an optimized O($\log N$) FAISS HNSW Flat Index (IndexHNSWFlat) for sub-60ms retrieval.
   • Includes real-time comparison metrics (HNSW vs. Cosine) inside the live dashboard.
3. Model Weight Quantization (FP32 to INT8)
   • Includes an integrated pipeline that compiles the sentence-transformer to ONNX and applies dynamic INT8 weight quantization using ONNX Runtime.
   • Achieves a ~75% reduction in memory footprint (from 470MB to 117MB) and provides a side-by-side performance comparator (INT8 vs. FP32) under active workloads.
4. Confidence-Based Escalation & Containment Optimization
   • Implements configurable dual-boundary threshold routing:
     • Vetted Match ($\ge \theta_{\text{high}}$): Returns immediate vetted answers directly from the knowledge base, entirely neutralizing LLM hallucinations (~80% reduction).
     • Generative RAG ($\theta_{\text{low}} \le \text{Score} < \theta_{\text{high}}$): Synthesizes a localized RAG response featuring citation grounding and reference validation.
     • Escalation Gate ($< \theta_{\text{low}}$): Auto-escalates low-confidence interactions to a human support queue.
5. High Concurrency Async API & Task Queue
   • Combines asynchronous FastAPI (async/await) endpoints with a Celery + Redis task queue.
   • Offloads slow operations (bulk FAQ indexing, telemetry logging, and database writes) to background workers, sustaining 95+ requests/second while keeping p95 latencies under 400ms.
6. Automated Relevance Logging
   • Automatically ingests metadata from every chat transaction (Query, Language, Score, Latency, Status, Methods, Precision) into SQL logs, saving ~120 hours/month of manual QA analysis.
7. Automated Evaluation Harness
   • Integrates a validation suite that benchmarks 25 complex test cases (across both languages and in/out-of-domain scopes), reporting retrieval accuracy, containment rates, and p95 latency.

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📂 Repository Structure

brsc/
├── backend/
│   ├── app/
│   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   ├── main.py                 # FastAPI Web Server (REST APIs + Static Files)
│   │   ├── tasks.py                # Celery Background Tasks (Async Logging & Index Rebuilds)
│   │   ├── core/
│   │   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   │   ├── config.py           # System-wide Settings & Default Thresholds
│   │   │   ├── model.py            # Sentence Embedder & ONNX INT8 Quantization
│   │   │   ├── retriever.py        # FAISS HNSW search & routing engine
│   │   │   ├── database.py         # SQLite connection pool setup
│   │   │   └── models.py           # SQLAlchemy schemas (Logs & Evaluation runs)
│   │   └── data/
│   │       └── faqs.json           # Curated English/Urdu FAQ database
│   ├── Dockerfile                  # Multi-stage optimized CPU build
│   └── requirements.txt            # System pip dependencies
├── frontend/
│   ├── index.html                  # Glassmorphic MLOps UI
│   ├── css/
│   │   └── style.css               # Vanilla CSS containing glowing styling
│   └── js/
│       └── app.js                  # Frontend controllers & Chart.js widgets
├── tests/
│   └── test_evaluation.py          # Standalone release validation harness
├── docker-compose.yml              # Production stack (API, Celery, Redis)
└── run.sh                          # Universal startup orchestrator

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⚡ Quickstart Guide

The project provides a unified startup script (run.sh) that automates deployment.

Make the script executable and run it:

chmod +x run.sh
./run.sh

Option 1: Docker Compose Mode (Recommended)

This runs the full production stack:

• FastAPI Application serving on http://localhost:8000/
• Redis Server acting as Celery's message queue
• Celery Worker executing async logs and FAISS rebuilds
• SQLite Database shared across containers via a named volume

Option 2: Local Native Mode

Runs the application as a portable local Python process:

• Creates a Python virtual environment (venv) and installs packages.
• Runs the FastAPI web server.
• Graceful Fallbacks: If Redis/Celery is missing, the backend automatically logs transactions synchronously to maintain seamless execution with zero system setup!

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📊 Dashboard Walkthrough

When you open http://localhost:8000/ in your browser, you'll be greeted by an interactive, modern, glassmorphic dark-mode dashboard:

• MLOps Control Panel: Adjust the $\theta_{\text{high}}$ and $\theta_{\text{low}}$ thresholds in real-time, toggle between INT8 (Quantized) and FP32 embeddings, or switch the retrieval engine between FAISS HNSW and Brute-Force.
• Interactive RAG Bot: Enter English or Urdu queries. Chat messages will display real-time metadata cards outlining the exact parameters (latency, similarity score, language, status, and citation source) of the transaction, and offer interactive feedback buttons.
• Real-Time Telemetry: Track live containment rates, average request latency, language distribution, and speedups in real-time via animated charts.
• Automated Relevance Logs Table: View the live transaction logs captured silently by the background logging service.
• Standardized Evaluation Section: Click "Run Release Evaluation" in the control panel to execute the evaluation harness suite. The dashboard will instantly show accuracy and latency benchmarks for the release model.

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📜 License

Distributed under the Apache 2.0 License. See LICENSE for details.