perf: make embedder loading faster by 6x, and embed queries through the server

packages/leann-backend-diskann/leann_backend_diskann/embedding_server.py

@@ -16,8 +16,17 @@ import zmq
 import numpy as np
 import msgpack
 from pathlib import Path
+import logging
 
 RED = "\033[91m"
+
+# Set up logging based on environment variable
+LOG_LEVEL = os.getenv('LEANN_LOG_LEVEL', 'INFO').upper()
+logging.basicConfig(
+    level=getattr(logging, LOG_LEVEL, logging.INFO),
+    format='%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s'
+)
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 RESET = "\033[0m"
 
 # --- New Passage Loader from HNSW backend ---
@@ -169,7 +178,7 @@ def create_embedding_server_thread(
     在当前线程中创建并运行 embedding server
     这个函数设计为在单独的线程中调用
     """
-    print(f"INFO: Initializing embedding server thread on port {zmq_port}")
+    logger.info(f"Initializing embedding server thread on port {zmq_port}")
     
     try:
         # 检查端口是否已被占用
@@ -189,7 +198,7 @@ def create_embedding_server_thread(
         if embedding_mode == "mlx":
             from leann.api import compute_embeddings_mlx
             import torch
-            print("INFO: Using MLX for embeddings")
+            logger.info("Using MLX for embeddings")
             # Set device to CPU for compatibility with DeviceTimer class
             device = torch.device("cpu")
             cuda_available = False
@@ -197,7 +206,7 @@ def create_embedding_server_thread(
         elif embedding_mode == "openai":
             from leann.api import compute_embeddings_openai
             import torch
-            print("INFO: Using OpenAI API for embeddings")
+            logger.info("Using OpenAI API for embeddings")
             # Set device to CPU for compatibility with DeviceTimer class
             device = torch.device("cpu")
             cuda_available = False
@@ -213,16 +222,16 @@ def create_embedding_server_thread(
             
             if cuda_available:
                 device = torch.device("cuda")
-                print("INFO: Using CUDA device")
+                logger.info("Using CUDA device")
             elif mps_available:
                 device = torch.device("mps")
-                print("INFO: Using MPS device (Apple Silicon)")
+                logger.info("Using MPS device (Apple Silicon)")
             else:
                 device = torch.device("cpu")
-                print("INFO: Using CPU device")
+                logger.info("Using CPU device")
             
             # 加载模型
-            print(f"INFO: Loading model {model_name}")
+            logger.info(f"Loading model {model_name}")
             model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_name).to(device).eval()
 
             # 优化模型
@@ -230,7 +239,7 @@ def create_embedding_server_thread(
                 try:
                     model = model.half()
                     model = torch.compile(model)
-                    print(f"INFO: Using FP16 precision with model: {model_name}")
+                    logger.info(f"Using FP16 precision with model: {model_name}")
                 except Exception as e:
                     print(f"WARNING: Model optimization failed: {e}")
         else:
@@ -256,7 +265,7 @@ def create_embedding_server_thread(
             print("WARNING: No passages file provided or file not found. Using an empty passage loader.")
             passages = SimplePassageLoader()
 
-        print(f"INFO: Loaded {len(passages)} passages.")
+        logger.info(f"Loaded {len(passages)} passages.")
 
         def client_warmup(zmq_port):
             """Perform client-side warmup for DiskANN server"""
@@ -365,7 +374,7 @@ def create_embedding_server_thread(
         def process_batch_pytorch(texts_batch, ids_batch, missing_ids):
             """处理文本批次"""
             batch_size = len(texts_batch)
-            print(f"INFO: Processing batch of size {batch_size}")
+            logger.info(f"Processing batch of size {batch_size}")
 
             tokenize_timer = DeviceTimer("tokenization (batch)", device)
             to_device_timer = DeviceTimer("transfer to device (batch)", device)

packages/leann-backend-hnsw/leann_backend_hnsw/hnsw_embedding_server.py

@@ -18,10 +18,19 @@ import json
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Dict, Any, Optional, Union
 import sys
+import logging
 
 RED = "\033[91m"
 RESET = "\033[0m"
 
+# Set up logging based on environment variable
+LOG_LEVEL = os.getenv('LEANN_LOG_LEVEL', 'INFO').upper()
+logging.basicConfig(
+    level=getattr(logging, LOG_LEVEL, logging.INFO),
+    format='%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s'
+)
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 def is_similarity_metric():
     """
@@ -36,6 +45,23 @@ import torch
 from torch import Tensor
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 
+# Timing utilities
+@contextmanager
+def timer(name: str, sync_cuda: bool = True):
+    """Context manager for timing operations with optional CUDA sync"""
+    start_time = time.time()
+    if sync_cuda and torch.cuda.is_available():
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    try:
+        yield
+    finally:
+        if sync_cuda and torch.cuda.is_available():
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        elif sync_cuda and torch.backends.mps.is_available():
+            torch.mps.synchronize()
+        elapsed = time.time() - start_time
+        logger.info(f"⏱️  {name}: {elapsed:.4f}s")
+
 
 def e5_average_pool(last_hidden_states: Tensor, attention_mask: Tensor) -> Tensor:
     last_hidden = last_hidden_states.masked_fill(~attention_mask[..., None].bool(), 0.0)
@@ -120,13 +146,13 @@ def load_passages_from_metadata(meta_file: str) -> SimplePassageLoader:
                     if passage_data and passage_data.get("text"):
                         return {"text": passage_data["text"]}
                     else:
-                        print(f"DEBUG: Empty text for ID {int_id} -> {string_id}")
+                        logger.debug(f"Empty text for ID {int_id} -> {string_id}")
                         return {"text": ""}
                 else:
-                    print(f"DEBUG: ID {int_id} not found in label_map")
+                    logger.debug(f"ID {int_id} not found in label_map")
                     return {"text": ""}
             except Exception as e:
-                print(f"DEBUG: Exception getting passage {passage_id}: {e}")
+                logger.debug(f"Exception getting passage {passage_id}: {e}")
                 return {"text": ""}
 
         def __len__(self) -> int:
@@ -184,8 +210,21 @@ def create_hnsw_embedding_server(
         tokenizer = None  # MLX handles tokenization separately
     else:  # sentence-transformers
         print(f"Loading tokenizer for {model_name}...")
-        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, use_fast=True)
+        # Optimized tokenizer loading: try local first, then fallback
-        print(f"Tokenizer loaded successfully!")
+        try:
+            tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+                model_name, 
+                use_fast=True,       # Use fast tokenizer (better runtime perf)
+                local_files_only=True  # Avoid network delays
+            )
+            print(f"Tokenizer loaded successfully! (local + fast)")
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"Local tokenizer failed ({e}), trying network download...")
+            tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+                model_name, 
+                use_fast=True  # Use fast tokenizer
+            )
+            print(f"Tokenizer loaded successfully! (network)")
 
     # Device setup
     mps_available = hasattr(torch.backends, "mps") and torch.backends.mps.is_available()
@@ -217,9 +256,47 @@ def create_hnsw_embedding_server(
         print("OpenAI API mode - no local model loading required")
         model = None
     else:
-        # Use standard transformers for sentence-transformers models
+        # Use optimized transformers loading for sentence-transformers models
-        model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_name).to(device).eval()
+        print(f"Loading model with optimizations...")
-        print(f"Model {model_name} loaded successfully!")
+        try:
+            # Ultra-fast loading: preload config + fast_init
+            from transformers import AutoConfig
+            config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model_name, local_files_only=True)
+            model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
+                model_name,
+                config=config,
+                torch_dtype=torch.float16,  # Half precision for speed
+                low_cpu_mem_usage=True,     # Reduce memory peaks  
+                local_files_only=True,     # Avoid network delays
+                _fast_init=True             # Skip weight init checks
+            ).to(device).eval()
+            print(f"Model {model_name} loaded successfully! (ultra-fast)")
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"Ultra-fast loading failed ({e}), trying optimized...")
+            try:
+                # Fallback: regular optimized loading
+                model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
+                    model_name,
+                    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
+                    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+                    local_files_only=True
+                ).to(device).eval()
+                print(f"Model {model_name} loaded successfully! (optimized)")
+            except Exception as e2:
+                print(f"Optimized loading failed ({e2}), trying network...")
+                try:
+                    # Fallback: optimized network loading
+                    model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
+                        model_name,
+                        torch_dtype=torch.float16,
+                        low_cpu_mem_usage=True
+                    ).to(device).eval()
+                    print(f"Model {model_name} loaded successfully! (network + optimized)")
+                except Exception as e3:
+                    print(f"All optimized methods failed ({e3}), using standard...")
+                    # Final fallback: standard loading
+                    model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_name).to(device).eval()
+                    print(f"Model {model_name} loaded successfully! (standard)")
 
     # Check port availability
     import socket
@@ -370,8 +447,9 @@ def create_hnsw_embedding_server(
         if embedding_mode == "mlx":
             return _process_batch_mlx(texts_batch, ids_batch, missing_ids)
         elif embedding_mode == "openai":
-            from leann.api import compute_embeddings_openai
+            with timer("OpenAI API call", sync_cuda=False):
-            return compute_embeddings_openai(texts_batch, model_name)
+                from leann.api import compute_embeddings_openai
+                return compute_embeddings_openai(texts_batch, model_name)
 
         _is_e5_model = "e5" in model_name.lower()
         _is_bge_model = "bge" in model_name.lower()
@@ -417,44 +495,46 @@ def create_hnsw_embedding_server(
             enc = {k: v.to(device) for k, v in encoded_batch.items()}
 
         with torch.no_grad():
-            with embed_timer.timing():
+            with timer("Model forward pass"):
-                out = model(enc["input_ids"], enc["attention_mask"])
+                with embed_timer.timing():
+                    out = model(enc["input_ids"], enc["attention_mask"])
 
-            with pool_timer.timing():
+            with timer("Pooling"):
-                if _is_bge_model:
+                with pool_timer.timing():
-                    pooled_embeddings = out.last_hidden_state[:, 0]
+                    if _is_bge_model:
-                elif not hasattr(out, "last_hidden_state"):
+                        pooled_embeddings = out.last_hidden_state[:, 0]
-                    if isinstance(out, torch.Tensor) and len(out.shape) == 2:
+                    elif not hasattr(out, "last_hidden_state"):
-                        pooled_embeddings = out
+                        if isinstance(out, torch.Tensor) and len(out.shape) == 2:
+                            pooled_embeddings = out
+                        else:
+                            print(
+                                f"{RED}ERROR: Cannot determine how to pool. Output shape: {out.shape if isinstance(out, torch.Tensor) else 'N/A'}{RESET}"
+                            )
+                            hidden_dim = getattr(
+                                model.config, "hidden_size", 384 if _is_e5_model else 768
+                            )
+                            pooled_embeddings = torch.zeros(
+                                (batch_size, hidden_dim),
+                                device=device,
+                                dtype=enc["input_ids"].dtype
+                                if hasattr(enc["input_ids"], "dtype")
+                                else torch.float32,
+                            )
+                    elif _is_e5_model:
+                        pooled_embeddings = e5_average_pool(
+                            out.last_hidden_state, enc["attention_mask"]
+                        )
                     else:
-                        print(
+                        hidden_states = out.last_hidden_state
-                            f"{RED}ERROR: Cannot determine how to pool. Output shape: {out.shape if isinstance(out, torch.Tensor) else 'N/A'}{RESET}"
+                        mask_expanded = (
+                            enc["attention_mask"]
+                            .unsqueeze(-1)
+                            .expand(hidden_states.size())
+                            .float()
                         )
-                        hidden_dim = getattr(
+                        sum_embeddings = torch.sum(hidden_states * mask_expanded, 1)
-                            model.config, "hidden_size", 384 if _is_e5_model else 768
+                        sum_mask = torch.clamp(mask_expanded.sum(1), min=1e-9)
-                        )
+                        pooled_embeddings = sum_embeddings / sum_mask
-                        pooled_embeddings = torch.zeros(
-                            (batch_size, hidden_dim),
-                            device=device,
-                            dtype=enc["input_ids"].dtype
-                            if hasattr(enc["input_ids"], "dtype")
-                            else torch.float32,
-                        )
-                elif _is_e5_model:
-                    pooled_embeddings = e5_average_pool(
-                        out.last_hidden_state, enc["attention_mask"]
-                    )
-                else:
-                    hidden_states = out.last_hidden_state
-                    mask_expanded = (
-                        enc["attention_mask"]
-                        .unsqueeze(-1)
-                        .expand(hidden_states.size())
-                        .float()
-                    )
-                    sum_embeddings = torch.sum(hidden_states * mask_expanded, 1)
-                    sum_mask = torch.clamp(mask_expanded.sum(1), min=1e-9)
-                    pooled_embeddings = sum_embeddings / sum_mask
 
             final_embeddings = pooled_embeddings
             if _is_e5_model or _is_bge_model:
@@ -536,7 +616,7 @@ def create_hnsw_embedding_server(
 
     def zmq_server_thread():
         """ZMQ server thread"""
-        nonlocal passages, model, tokenizer, model_name
+        nonlocal passages, model, tokenizer, model_name, embedding_mode
         context = zmq.Context()
         socket = context.socket(zmq.REP)
         socket.bind(f"tcp://*:{zmq_port}")
@@ -556,13 +636,13 @@ def create_hnsw_embedding_server(
                 try:
                     request_payload = msgpack.unpackb(message_bytes)
                     if isinstance(request_payload, list):
-                        print(f"DEBUG: request_payload length: {len(request_payload)}")
+                        logger.debug(f"request_payload length: {len(request_payload)}")
                         for i, item in enumerate(request_payload):
                             print(
                                 f"DEBUG: request_payload[{i}]: {type(item)} - {item if len(str(item)) < 100 else str(item)[:100] + '...'}"
                             )
 
-                    # Handle control messages for meta path and model management
+                    # Handle control messages for meta path and model management FIRST
                     if isinstance(request_payload, list) and len(request_payload) >= 1:
                         if request_payload[0] == "__QUERY_META_PATH__":
                             # Return the current meta path being used by the server
@@ -617,19 +697,61 @@ def create_hnsw_embedding_server(
                                 )
 
                                 # Clean up old model to free memory
-                                print("INFO: Releasing old model from memory...")
+                                logger.info("Releasing old model from memory...")
                                 old_model = model
                                 old_tokenizer = tokenizer
 
-                                # Load new tokenizer first
+                                # Load new tokenizer first (optimized)
                                 print(f"Loading new tokenizer for {new_model_name}...")
-                                tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+                                try:
-                                    new_model_name, use_fast=True
+                                    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
-                                )
+                                        new_model_name, 
+                                        use_fast=True,
+                                        local_files_only=True
+                                    )
+                                    print(f"New tokenizer loaded! (local + fast)")
+                                except:
+                                    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+                                        new_model_name, 
+                                        use_fast=True
+                                    )
+                                    print(f"New tokenizer loaded! (network + fast)")
 
-                                # Load new model
+                                # Load new model (optimized)
                                 print(f"Loading new model {new_model_name}...")
-                                model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(new_model_name)
+                                try:
+                                    # Ultra-fast model switching
+                                    from transformers import AutoConfig
+                                    config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(new_model_name, local_files_only=True)
+                                    model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
+                                        new_model_name,
+                                        config=config,
+                                        torch_dtype=torch.float16,
+                                        low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+                                        local_files_only=True,
+                                        _fast_init=True
+                                    )
+                                    print(f"New model loaded! (ultra-fast)")
+                                except:
+                                    try:
+                                        model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
+                                            new_model_name,
+                                            torch_dtype=torch.float16,
+                                            low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+                                            local_files_only=True
+                                        )
+                                        print(f"New model loaded! (optimized)")
+                                    except:
+                                        try:
+                                            model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
+                                                new_model_name,
+                                                torch_dtype=torch.float16,
+                                                low_cpu_mem_usage=True
+                                            )
+                                            print(f"New model loaded! (network + optimized)")
+                                        except:
+                                            model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(new_model_name)
+                                            print(f"New model loaded! (standard)")
                                 model.to(device)
                                 model.eval()
 
@@ -640,19 +762,27 @@ def create_hnsw_embedding_server(
                                 # Clear GPU cache if available
                                 if device.type == "cuda":
                                     torch.cuda.empty_cache()
-                                    print("INFO: Cleared CUDA cache")
+                                    logger.info("Cleared CUDA cache")
                                 elif device.type == "mps":
                                     torch.mps.empty_cache()
-                                    print("INFO: Cleared MPS cache")
+                                    logger.info("Cleared MPS cache")
 
                                 # Update model name
                                 model_name = new_model_name
+                                
+                                # Re-detect embedding mode based on new model name
+                                if model_name.startswith("text-embedding-"):
+                                    embedding_mode = "openai"
+                                    logger.info(f"Auto-detected embedding mode: openai for {model_name}")
+                                else:
+                                    embedding_mode = "sentence-transformers"
+                                    logger.info(f"Auto-detected embedding mode: sentence-transformers for {model_name}")
 
                                 # Force garbage collection
                                 import gc
 
                                 gc.collect()
-                                print("INFO: Memory cleanup completed")
+                                logger.info("Memory cleanup completed")
 
                                 response = ["SUCCESS"]
                                 print(
@@ -664,6 +794,32 @@ def create_hnsw_embedding_server(
                             socket.send(msgpack.packb(response))
                             continue
 
+                    # Handle direct text embedding request (for OpenAI and sentence-transformers)
+                    if isinstance(request_payload, list) and len(request_payload) > 0:
+                        # Check if this is a direct text request (list of strings) and NOT a control message
+                        if (all(isinstance(item, str) for item in request_payload) and 
+                            not request_payload[0].startswith("__")):
+                            logger.info(f"Processing direct text embedding request for {len(request_payload)} texts in {embedding_mode} mode")
+                            
+                            try:
+                                if embedding_mode == "openai":
+                                    from leann.api import compute_embeddings_openai
+                                    embeddings = compute_embeddings_openai(request_payload, model_name)
+                                else:
+                                    # sentence-transformers mode - compute directly
+                                    with timer(f"Direct text embedding ({len(request_payload)} texts)"):
+                                        embeddings = process_batch(request_payload, [], [])
+                                
+                                response = embeddings.tolist()
+                                socket.send(msgpack.packb(response))
+                                e2e_end = time.time()
+                                logger.info(f"⏱️  Text embedding E2E time: {e2e_end - e2e_start:.6f}s")
+                                continue
+                            except Exception as e:
+                                logger.error(f"ERROR: Failed to compute {embedding_mode} embeddings: {e}")
+                                socket.send(msgpack.packb([]))
+                                continue
+
                     # Handle distance calculation requests
                     if (
                         isinstance(request_payload, list)
@@ -674,7 +830,7 @@ def create_hnsw_embedding_server(
                         node_ids = request_payload[0]
                         query_vector = np.array(request_payload[1], dtype=np.float32)
 
-                        print("DEBUG: Distance calculation request received")
+                        logger.debug("Distance calculation request received")
                         print(f"    Node IDs: {node_ids}")
                         print(f"    Query vector dim: {len(query_vector)}")
                         print(f"    Passages loaded: {len(passages)}")
@@ -684,7 +840,7 @@ def create_hnsw_embedding_server(
                         missing_ids = []
                         with lookup_timer.timing():
                             for nid in node_ids:
-                                print(f"DEBUG: Looking up passage ID {nid}")
+                                logger.debug(f"Looking up passage ID {nid}")
                                 try:
                                     txtinfo = passages[nid]
                                     if txtinfo is None:
@@ -804,29 +960,11 @@ def create_hnsw_embedding_server(
                         elif device.type == "mps":
                             torch.mps.synchronize()
                         e2e_end = time.time()
-                        print(
+                        logger.info(
-                            f"Distance calculation E2E time: {e2e_end - e2e_start:.6f} seconds"
+                            f"⏱️  Distance calculation E2E time: {e2e_end - e2e_start:.6f}s"
                         )
                         continue
 
-                    # Handle direct text embedding request (for OpenAI mode)
-                    if embedding_mode == "openai" and isinstance(request_payload, list) and len(request_payload) > 0:
-                        # Check if this is a direct text request (list of strings)
-                        if all(isinstance(item, str) for item in request_payload):
-                            print(f"Processing direct text embedding request for {len(request_payload)} texts")
-                            
-                            try:
-                                from leann.api import compute_embeddings_openai
-                                embeddings = compute_embeddings_openai(request_payload, model_name)
-                                response = embeddings.tolist()
-                                socket.send(msgpack.packb(response))
-                                e2e_end = time.time()
-                                print(f"Text embedding E2E time: {e2e_end - e2e_start:.6f} seconds")
-                                continue
-                            except Exception as e:
-                                print(f"ERROR: Failed to compute OpenAI embeddings: {e}")
-                                socket.send(msgpack.packb([]))
-                                continue
 
                     # Standard embedding request (passage ID lookup)
                     if (
@@ -945,10 +1083,10 @@ def create_hnsw_embedding_server(
                 elif device.type == "mps":
                     torch.mps.synchronize()
                 e2e_end = time.time()
-                print(f"ZMQ E2E time: {e2e_end - e2e_start:.6f} seconds")
+                logger.info(f"⏱️  ZMQ E2E time: {e2e_end - e2e_start:.6f}s")
 
             except zmq.Again:
-                print("ZMQ socket timeout, continuing to listen")
+                logger.debug("ZMQ socket timeout, continuing to listen")
                 continue
             except Exception as e:
                 print(f"Error in ZMQ server loop: {e}")

packages/leann-core/src/leann/api.py

@@ -51,7 +51,63 @@ def compute_embeddings(
 
 
 def compute_embeddings_sentence_transformers(chunks: List[str], model_name: str) -> np.ndarray:
-    """Computes embeddings using sentence-transformers library."""
+    """Computes embeddings using sentence-transformers via embedding server."""
+    print(
+        f"INFO: Computing embeddings for {len(chunks)} chunks using SentenceTransformer model '{model_name}' (via embedding server)..."
+    )
+    
+    # Use embedding server for sentence-transformers too
+    # This avoids loading the model twice (once in API, once in server)
+    try:
+        # Import ZMQ client functionality and server manager
+        import zmq
+        import msgpack
+        import numpy as np
+        from .embedding_server_manager import EmbeddingServerManager
+        
+        # Ensure embedding server is running
+        port = 5557
+        server_manager = EmbeddingServerManager(backend_module_name="leann_backend_hnsw.hnsw_embedding_server")
+        
+        server_started = server_manager.start_server(
+            port=port,
+            model_name=model_name,
+            embedding_mode="sentence-transformers",
+            enable_warmup=False,
+        )
+        
+        if not server_started:
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Failed to start embedding server on port {port}")
+        
+        # Connect to embedding server
+        context = zmq.Context()
+        socket = context.socket(zmq.REQ)
+        socket.connect(f"tcp://localhost:{port}")
+        
+        # Send chunks to server for embedding computation
+        request = chunks
+        socket.send(msgpack.packb(request))
+        
+        # Receive embeddings from server
+        response = socket.recv()
+        embeddings_list = msgpack.unpackb(response)
+        
+        # Convert back to numpy array
+        embeddings = np.array(embeddings_list, dtype=np.float32)
+        
+        socket.close()
+        context.term()
+        
+        return embeddings
+        
+    except Exception as e:
+        # Fallback to direct sentence-transformers if server connection fails
+        print(f"Warning: Failed to connect to embedding server, falling back to direct computation: {e}")
+        return _compute_embeddings_sentence_transformers_direct(chunks, model_name)
+
+
+def _compute_embeddings_sentence_transformers_direct(chunks: List[str], model_name: str) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Direct sentence-transformers computation (fallback)."""
     try:
         from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
     except ImportError as e:
@@ -64,7 +120,7 @@ def compute_embeddings_sentence_transformers(chunks: List[str], model_name: str)
 
     model = model.half()
     print(
-        f"INFO: Computing embeddings for {len(chunks)} chunks using SentenceTransformer model '{model_name}'..."
+        f"INFO: Computing embeddings for {len(chunks)} chunks using SentenceTransformer model '{model_name}' (direct)..."
     )
     # use acclerater GPU or MAC GPU
 

packages/leann-core/src/leann/embedding_server_manager.py

@@ -200,7 +200,27 @@ class EmbeddingServerManager:
 
                     # Check model compatibility
                     model_matches = _check_server_model(self.server_port, model_name)
-                    if not model_matches:
+                    if model_matches:
+                        print(
+                            f"✅ Existing server already using correct model: {model_name}"
+                        )
+                        
+                        # Still check meta path if provided
+                        passages_file = kwargs.get("passages_file")
+                        if passages_file and str(passages_file).endswith(
+                            ".meta.json"
+                        ):
+                            meta_matches = _check_server_meta_path(
+                                self.server_port, str(passages_file)
+                            )
+                            if not meta_matches:
+                                print("⚠️  Updating meta path to: {passages_file}")
+                                _update_server_meta_path(
+                                    self.server_port, str(passages_file)
+                                )
+                        
+                        return True
+                    else:
                         print(
                             f"⚠️  Existing server has different model. Attempting to update to: {model_name}"
                         )
@@ -230,11 +250,6 @@ class EmbeddingServerManager:
                                     )
 
                             return True
-                    else:
-                        print(
-                            f"✅ Existing server already using correct model: {model_name}"
-                        )
-                        return True
                 else:
                     # Server process exists but port not responding - restart
                     print("⚠️  Server process exists but not responding. Restarting...")
@@ -254,7 +269,11 @@ class EmbeddingServerManager:
 
             # Check model compatibility first
             model_matches = _check_server_model(port, model_name)
-            if not model_matches:
+            if model_matches:
+                print(
+                    f"✅ Existing server on port {port} is using correct model: {model_name}"
+                )
+            else:
                 print(
                     f"⚠️  Existing server on port {port} has different model. Attempting to update to: {model_name}"
                 )
@@ -263,10 +282,6 @@ class EmbeddingServerManager:
                         f"❌ Failed to update server model to {model_name}. Consider using a different port."
                     )
                 print(f"✅ Successfully updated server model to: {model_name}")
-            else:
-                print(
-                    f"✅ Existing server on port {port} is using correct model: {model_name}"
-                )
 
             # Check meta path compatibility if provided
             if passages_file and str(passages_file).endswith(".meta.json"):