venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/transformers/models/rag/retrieval_rag.py

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"""RAG Retriever model implementation."""

import os
import pickle
import time
from typing import Iterable, List, Optional, Tuple

import numpy as np

from ...tokenization_utils import PreTrainedTokenizer
from ...tokenization_utils_base import BatchEncoding
from ...utils import cached_file, is_datasets_available, is_faiss_available, logging, requires_backends, strtobool
from .configuration_rag import RagConfig
from .tokenization_rag import RagTokenizer


if is_datasets_available():
    from datasets import Dataset, load_dataset, load_from_disk

if is_faiss_available():
    import faiss


logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)


LEGACY_INDEX_PATH = "https://storage.googleapis.com/huggingface-nlp/datasets/wiki_dpr/"


class Index:
    """
    A base class for the Indices encapsulated by the [`RagRetriever`].
    """

    def get_doc_dicts(self, doc_ids: np.ndarray) -> List[dict]:
        """
        Returns a list of dictionaries, containing titles and text of the retrieved documents.

        Args:
            doc_ids (`np.ndarray` of shape `(batch_size, n_docs)`):
                A tensor of document indices.
        """
        raise NotImplementedError

    def get_top_docs(self, question_hidden_states: np.ndarray, n_docs=5) -> Tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
        """
        For each query in the batch, retrieves `n_docs` documents.

        Args:
            question_hidden_states (`np.ndarray` of shape `(batch_size, vector_size)`):
                An array of query vectors.
            n_docs (`int`):
                The number of docs retrieved per query.

        Returns:
            `np.ndarray` of shape `(batch_size, n_docs)`: A tensor of indices of retrieved documents. `np.ndarray` of
            shape `(batch_size, vector_size)`: A tensor of vector representations of retrieved documents.
        """
        raise NotImplementedError

    def is_initialized(self):
        """
        Returns `True` if index is already initialized.
        """
        raise NotImplementedError

    def init_index(self):
        """
        A function responsible for loading the index into memory. Should be called only once per training run of a RAG
        model. E.g. if the model is trained on multiple GPUs in a distributed setup, only one of the workers will load
        the index.
        """
        raise NotImplementedError


class LegacyIndex(Index):
    """
    An index which can be deserialized from the files built using https://github.com/facebookresearch/DPR. We use
    default faiss index parameters as specified in that repository.

    Args:
        vector_size (`int`):
            The dimension of indexed vectors.
        index_path (`str`):
            A path to a *directory* containing index files compatible with [`~models.rag.retrieval_rag.LegacyIndex`]
    """

    INDEX_FILENAME = "hf_bert_base.hnswSQ8_correct_phi_128.c_index"
    PASSAGE_FILENAME = "psgs_w100.tsv.pkl"

    def __init__(self, vector_size, index_path):
        self.index_id_to_db_id = []
        self.index_path = index_path
        self.passages = self._load_passages()
        self.vector_size = vector_size
        self.index = None
        self._index_initialized = False

    def _resolve_path(self, index_path, filename):
        is_local = os.path.isdir(index_path)
        try:
            # Load from URL or cache if already cached
            resolved_archive_file = cached_file(index_path, filename)
        except EnvironmentError:
            msg = (
                f"Can't load '{filename}'. Make sure that:\n\n"
                f"- '{index_path}' is a correct remote path to a directory containing a file named {filename}\n\n"
                f"- or '{index_path}' is the correct path to a directory containing a file named {filename}.\n\n"
            )
            raise EnvironmentError(msg)
        if is_local:
            logger.info(f"loading file {resolved_archive_file}")
        else:
            logger.info(f"loading file {filename} from cache at {resolved_archive_file}")
        return resolved_archive_file

    def _load_passages(self):
        logger.info(f"Loading passages from {self.index_path}")
        passages_path = self._resolve_path(self.index_path, self.PASSAGE_FILENAME)
        if not strtobool(os.environ.get("TRUST_REMOTE_CODE", "False")):
            raise ValueError(
                "This part uses `pickle.load` which is insecure and will execute arbitrary code that is potentially "
                "malicious. It's recommended to never unpickle data that could have come from an untrusted source, or "
                "that could have been tampered with. If you already verified the pickle data and decided to use it, "
                "you can set the environment variable `TRUST_REMOTE_CODE` to `True` to allow it."
            )
        with open(passages_path, "rb") as passages_file:
            passages = pickle.load(passages_file)
        return passages

    def _deserialize_index(self):
        logger.info(f"Loading index from {self.index_path}")
        resolved_index_path = self._resolve_path(self.index_path, self.INDEX_FILENAME + ".index.dpr")
        self.index = faiss.read_index(resolved_index_path)
        resolved_meta_path = self._resolve_path(self.index_path, self.INDEX_FILENAME + ".index_meta.dpr")
        if not strtobool(os.environ.get("TRUST_REMOTE_CODE", "False")):
            raise ValueError(
                "This part uses `pickle.load` which is insecure and will execute arbitrary code that is potentially "
                "malicious. It's recommended to never unpickle data that could have come from an untrusted source, or "
                "that could have been tampered with. If you already verified the pickle data and decided to use it, "
                "you can set the environment variable `TRUST_REMOTE_CODE` to `True` to allow it."
            )
        with open(resolved_meta_path, "rb") as metadata_file:
            self.index_id_to_db_id = pickle.load(metadata_file)
        assert (
            len(self.index_id_to_db_id) == self.index.ntotal
        ), "Deserialized index_id_to_db_id should match faiss index size"

    def is_initialized(self):
        return self._index_initialized

    def init_index(self):
        index = faiss.IndexHNSWFlat(self.vector_size + 1, 512)
        index.hnsw.efSearch = 128
        index.hnsw.efConstruction = 200
        self.index = index
        self._deserialize_index()
        self._index_initialized = True

    def get_doc_dicts(self, doc_ids: np.array):
        doc_list = []
        for doc_ids_i in doc_ids:
            ids = [str(int(doc_id)) for doc_id in doc_ids_i]
            docs = [self.passages[doc_id] for doc_id in ids]
            doc_list.append(docs)
        doc_dicts = []
        for docs in doc_list:
            doc_dict = {}
            doc_dict["title"] = [doc[1] for doc in docs]
            doc_dict["text"] = [doc[0] for doc in docs]
            doc_dicts.append(doc_dict)
        return doc_dicts

    def get_top_docs(self, question_hidden_states: np.ndarray, n_docs=5) -> Tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
        aux_dim = np.zeros(len(question_hidden_states), dtype="float32").reshape(-1, 1)
        query_nhsw_vectors = np.hstack((question_hidden_states, aux_dim))
        _, docs_ids = self.index.search(query_nhsw_vectors, n_docs)
        vectors = [[self.index.reconstruct(int(doc_id))[:-1] for doc_id in doc_ids] for doc_ids in docs_ids]
        ids = [[int(self.index_id_to_db_id[doc_id]) for doc_id in doc_ids] for doc_ids in docs_ids]
        return np.array(ids), np.array(vectors)


class HFIndexBase(Index):
    def __init__(self, vector_size, dataset, index_initialized=False):
        self.vector_size = vector_size
        self.dataset = dataset
        self._index_initialized = index_initialized
        self._check_dataset_format(with_index=index_initialized)
        dataset.set_format("numpy", columns=["embeddings"], output_all_columns=True, dtype="float32")

    def _check_dataset_format(self, with_index: bool):
        if not isinstance(self.dataset, Dataset):
            raise TypeError(f"Dataset should be a datasets.Dataset object, but got {type(self.dataset)}")
        if len({"title", "text", "embeddings"} - set(self.dataset.column_names)) > 0:
            raise ValueError(
                "Dataset should be a dataset with the following columns: "
                "title (str), text (str) and embeddings (arrays of dimension vector_size), "
                f"but got columns {self.dataset.column_names}"
            )
        if with_index and "embeddings" not in self.dataset.list_indexes():
            raise ValueError(
                "Missing faiss index in the dataset. Make sure you called `dataset.add_faiss_index` to compute it "
                "or `dataset.load_faiss_index` to load one from the disk."
            )

    def init_index(self):
        raise NotImplementedError()

    def is_initialized(self):
        return self._index_initialized

    def get_doc_dicts(self, doc_ids: np.ndarray) -> List[dict]:
        return [self.dataset[doc_ids[i].tolist()] for i in range(doc_ids.shape[0])]

    def get_top_docs(self, question_hidden_states: np.ndarray, n_docs=5) -> Tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
        _, ids = self.dataset.search_batch("embeddings", question_hidden_states, n_docs)
        docs = [self.dataset[[i for i in indices if i >= 0]] for indices in ids]
        vectors = [doc["embeddings"] for doc in docs]
        for i in range(len(vectors)):
            if len(vectors[i]) < n_docs:
                vectors[i] = np.vstack([vectors[i], np.zeros((n_docs - len(vectors[i]), self.vector_size))])
        return np.array(ids), np.array(vectors)  # shapes (batch_size, n_docs) and (batch_size, n_docs, d)


class CanonicalHFIndex(HFIndexBase):
    """
    A wrapper around an instance of [`~datasets.Datasets`]. If `index_path` is set to `None`, we load the pre-computed
    index available with the [`~datasets.arrow_dataset.Dataset`], otherwise, we load the index from the indicated path
    on disk.

    Args:
        vector_size (`int`): the dimension of the passages embeddings used by the index
        dataset_name (`str`, optional, defaults to `wiki_dpr`):
            A dataset identifier of the indexed dataset on HuggingFace AWS bucket (list all available datasets and ids
            with `datasets.list_datasets()`).
        dataset_split (`str`, optional, defaults to `train`)
            Which split of the `dataset` to load.
        index_name (`str`, optional, defaults to `train`)
            The index_name of the index associated with the `dataset`. The index loaded from `index_path` will be saved
            under this name.
        index_path (`str`, optional, defaults to `None`)
            The path to the serialized faiss index on disk.
        use_dummy_dataset (`bool`, optional, defaults to `False`):
            If True, use the dummy configuration of the dataset for tests.
    """

    def __init__(
        self,
        vector_size: int,
        dataset_name: str = "wiki_dpr",
        dataset_split: str = "train",
        index_name: Optional[str] = None,
        index_path: Optional[str] = None,
        use_dummy_dataset=False,
        dataset_revision=None,
    ):
        if int(index_path is None) + int(index_name is None) != 1:
            raise ValueError("Please provide `index_name` or `index_path`.")
        self.dataset_name = dataset_name
        self.dataset_split = dataset_split
        self.index_name = index_name
        self.index_path = index_path
        self.use_dummy_dataset = use_dummy_dataset
        self.dataset_revision = dataset_revision
        logger.info(f"Loading passages from {self.dataset_name}")
        dataset = load_dataset(
            self.dataset_name,
            with_index=False,
            split=self.dataset_split,
            dummy=self.use_dummy_dataset,
            revision=dataset_revision,
        )
        super().__init__(vector_size, dataset, index_initialized=False)

    def init_index(self):
        if self.index_path is not None:
            logger.info(f"Loading index from {self.index_path}")
            self.dataset.load_faiss_index("embeddings", file=self.index_path)
        else:
            logger.info(f"Loading index from {self.dataset_name} with index name {self.index_name}")
            self.dataset = load_dataset(
                self.dataset_name,
                with_embeddings=True,
                with_index=True,
                split=self.dataset_split,
                index_name=self.index_name,
                dummy=self.use_dummy_dataset,
                revision=self.dataset_revision,
            )
            self.dataset.set_format("numpy", columns=["embeddings"], output_all_columns=True)
        self._index_initialized = True


class CustomHFIndex(HFIndexBase):
    """
    A wrapper around an instance of [`~datasets.Datasets`]. The dataset and the index are both loaded from the
    indicated paths on disk.

    Args:
        vector_size (`int`): the dimension of the passages embeddings used by the index
        dataset_path (`str`):
            The path to the serialized dataset on disk. The dataset should have 3 columns: title (str), text (str) and
            embeddings (arrays of dimension vector_size)
        index_path (`str`)
            The path to the serialized faiss index on disk.
    """

    def __init__(self, vector_size: int, dataset, index_path=None):
        super().__init__(vector_size, dataset, index_initialized=index_path is None)
        self.index_path = index_path

    @classmethod
    def load_from_disk(cls, vector_size, dataset_path, index_path):
        logger.info(f"Loading passages from {dataset_path}")
        if dataset_path is None or index_path is None:
            raise ValueError(
                "Please provide `dataset_path` and `index_path` after calling `dataset.save_to_disk(dataset_path)` "
                "and `dataset.get_index('embeddings').save(index_path)`."
            )
        dataset = load_from_disk(dataset_path)
        return cls(vector_size=vector_size, dataset=dataset, index_path=index_path)

    def init_index(self):
        if not self.is_initialized():
            logger.info(f"Loading index from {self.index_path}")
            self.dataset.load_faiss_index("embeddings", file=self.index_path)
            self._index_initialized = True


class RagRetriever:
    """
    Retriever used to get documents from vector queries. It retrieves the documents embeddings as well as the documents
    contents, and it formats them to be used with a RagModel.

    Args:
        config ([`RagConfig`]):
            The configuration of the RAG model this Retriever is used with. Contains parameters indicating which
            `Index` to build. You can load your own custom dataset with `config.index_name="custom"` or use a canonical
            one (default) from the datasets library with `config.index_name="wiki_dpr"` for example.
        question_encoder_tokenizer ([`PreTrainedTokenizer`]):
            The tokenizer that was used to tokenize the question. It is used to decode the question and then use the
            generator_tokenizer.
        generator_tokenizer ([`PreTrainedTokenizer`]):
            The tokenizer used for the generator part of the RagModel.
        index ([`~models.rag.retrieval_rag.Index`], optional, defaults to the one defined by the configuration):
            If specified, use this index instead of the one built using the configuration

    Examples:

    ```python
    >>> # To load the default "wiki_dpr" dataset with 21M passages from wikipedia (index name is 'compressed' or 'exact')
    >>> from transformers import RagRetriever

    >>> retriever = RagRetriever.from_pretrained(
    ...     "facebook/dpr-ctx_encoder-single-nq-base", dataset="wiki_dpr", index_name="compressed"
    ... )

    >>> # To load your own indexed dataset built with the datasets library. More info on how to build the indexed dataset in examples/rag/use_own_knowledge_dataset.py
    >>> from transformers import RagRetriever

    >>> dataset = (
    ...     ...
    ... )  # dataset must be a datasets.Datasets object with columns "title", "text" and "embeddings", and it must have a faiss index
    >>> retriever = RagRetriever.from_pretrained("facebook/dpr-ctx_encoder-single-nq-base", indexed_dataset=dataset)

    >>> # To load your own indexed dataset built with the datasets library that was saved on disk. More info in examples/rag/use_own_knowledge_dataset.py
    >>> from transformers import RagRetriever

    >>> dataset_path = "path/to/my/dataset"  # dataset saved via *dataset.save_to_disk(...)*
    >>> index_path = "path/to/my/index.faiss"  # faiss index saved via *dataset.get_index("embeddings").save(...)*
    >>> retriever = RagRetriever.from_pretrained(
    ...     "facebook/dpr-ctx_encoder-single-nq-base",
    ...     index_name="custom",
    ...     passages_path=dataset_path,
    ...     index_path=index_path,
    ... )

    >>> # To load the legacy index built originally for Rag's paper
    >>> from transformers import RagRetriever

    >>> retriever = RagRetriever.from_pretrained("facebook/dpr-ctx_encoder-single-nq-base", index_name="legacy")
    ```"""

    def __init__(self, config, question_encoder_tokenizer, generator_tokenizer, index=None, init_retrieval=True):
        self._init_retrieval = init_retrieval
        requires_backends(self, ["datasets", "faiss"])
        super().__init__()
        self.index = index or self._build_index(config)
        self.generator_tokenizer = generator_tokenizer
        self.question_encoder_tokenizer = question_encoder_tokenizer

        self.n_docs = config.n_docs
        self.batch_size = config.retrieval_batch_size

        self.config = config
        if self._init_retrieval:
            self.init_retrieval()

        self.ctx_encoder_tokenizer = None
        self.return_tokenized_docs = False

    @staticmethod
    def _build_index(config):
        if config.index_name == "legacy":
            return LegacyIndex(
                config.retrieval_vector_size,
                config.index_path or LEGACY_INDEX_PATH,
            )
        elif config.index_name == "custom":
            return CustomHFIndex.load_from_disk(
                vector_size=config.retrieval_vector_size,
                dataset_path=config.passages_path,
                index_path=config.index_path,
            )
        else:
            return CanonicalHFIndex(
                vector_size=config.retrieval_vector_size,
                dataset_name=config.dataset,
                dataset_split=config.dataset_split,
                index_name=config.index_name,
                index_path=config.index_path,
                use_dummy_dataset=config.use_dummy_dataset,
                dataset_revision=config.dataset_revision,
            )

    @classmethod
    def from_pretrained(cls, retriever_name_or_path, indexed_dataset=None, **kwargs):
        requires_backends(cls, ["datasets", "faiss"])
        config = kwargs.pop("config", None) or RagConfig.from_pretrained(retriever_name_or_path, **kwargs)
        rag_tokenizer = RagTokenizer.from_pretrained(retriever_name_or_path, config=config)
        question_encoder_tokenizer = rag_tokenizer.question_encoder
        generator_tokenizer = rag_tokenizer.generator
        if indexed_dataset is not None:
            config.index_name = "custom"
            index = CustomHFIndex(config.retrieval_vector_size, indexed_dataset)
        else:
            index = cls._build_index(config)
        return cls(
            config,
            question_encoder_tokenizer=question_encoder_tokenizer,
            generator_tokenizer=generator_tokenizer,
            index=index,
        )

    def save_pretrained(self, save_directory):
        if isinstance(self.index, CustomHFIndex):
            if self.config.index_path is None:
                index_path = os.path.join(save_directory, "hf_dataset_index.faiss")
                self.index.dataset.get_index("embeddings").save(index_path)
                self.config.index_path = index_path
            if self.config.passages_path is None:
                passages_path = os.path.join(save_directory, "hf_dataset")
                # datasets don't support save_to_disk with indexes right now
                faiss_index = self.index.dataset._indexes.pop("embeddings")
                self.index.dataset.save_to_disk(passages_path)
                self.index.dataset._indexes["embeddings"] = faiss_index
                self.config.passages_path = passages_path
        self.config.save_pretrained(save_directory)
        rag_tokenizer = RagTokenizer(
            question_encoder=self.question_encoder_tokenizer,
            generator=self.generator_tokenizer,
        )
        rag_tokenizer.save_pretrained(save_directory)

    def init_retrieval(self):
        """
        Retriever initialization function. It loads the index into memory.
        """

        logger.info("initializing retrieval")
        self.index.init_index()

    def postprocess_docs(self, docs, input_strings, prefix, n_docs, return_tensors=None):
        r"""
        Postprocessing retrieved `docs` and combining them with `input_strings`.

        Args:
            docs  (`dict`):
                Retrieved documents.
            input_strings (`str`):
                Input strings decoded by `preprocess_query`.
            prefix (`str`):
                Prefix added at the beginning of each input, typically used with T5-based models.

        Return:
            `tuple(tensors)`: a tuple consisting of two elements: contextualized `input_ids` and a compatible
            `attention_mask`.
        """

        def cat_input_and_doc(doc_title, doc_text, input_string, prefix):
            # TODO(Patrick): if we train more RAG models, I want to put the input first to take advantage of effortless truncation
            # TODO(piktus): better handling of truncation
            if doc_title.startswith('"'):
                doc_title = doc_title[1:]
            if doc_title.endswith('"'):
                doc_title = doc_title[:-1]
            if prefix is None:
                prefix = ""
            out = (prefix + doc_title + self.config.title_sep + doc_text + self.config.doc_sep + input_string).replace(
                "  ", " "
            )
            return out

        rag_input_strings = [
            cat_input_and_doc(
                docs[i]["title"][j],
                docs[i]["text"][j],
                input_strings[i],
                prefix,
            )
            for i in range(len(docs))
            for j in range(n_docs)
        ]

        contextualized_inputs = self.generator_tokenizer.batch_encode_plus(
            rag_input_strings,
            max_length=self.config.max_combined_length,
            return_tensors=return_tensors,
            padding="max_length",
            truncation=True,
        )

        return contextualized_inputs["input_ids"], contextualized_inputs["attention_mask"]

    def _chunk_tensor(self, t: Iterable, chunk_size: int) -> List[Iterable]:
        return [t[i : i + chunk_size] for i in range(0, len(t), chunk_size)]

    def _main_retrieve(self, question_hidden_states: np.ndarray, n_docs: int) -> Tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
        question_hidden_states_batched = self._chunk_tensor(question_hidden_states, self.batch_size)
        ids_batched = []
        vectors_batched = []
        for question_hidden_states in question_hidden_states_batched:
            start_time = time.time()
            ids, vectors = self.index.get_top_docs(question_hidden_states, n_docs)
            logger.debug(
                f"index search time: {time.time() - start_time} sec, batch size {question_hidden_states.shape}"
            )
            ids_batched.extend(ids)
            vectors_batched.extend(vectors)
        return (
            np.array(ids_batched),
            np.array(vectors_batched),
        )  # shapes (batch_size, n_docs) and (batch_size, n_docs, d)

    def retrieve(self, question_hidden_states: np.ndarray, n_docs: int) -> Tuple[np.ndarray, List[dict]]:
        """
        Retrieves documents for specified `question_hidden_states`.

        Args:
            question_hidden_states (`np.ndarray` of shape `(batch_size, vector_size)`):
                A batch of query vectors to retrieve with.
            n_docs (`int`):
                The number of docs retrieved per query.

        Return:
            `Tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, List[dict]]`: A tuple with the following objects:

            - **retrieved_doc_embeds** (`np.ndarray` of shape `(batch_size, n_docs, dim)`) -- The retrieval embeddings
              of the retrieved docs per query.
            - **doc_ids** (`np.ndarray` of shape `(batch_size, n_docs)`) -- The ids of the documents in the index
            - **doc_dicts** (`List[dict]`): The `retrieved_doc_embeds` examples per query.
        """

        doc_ids, retrieved_doc_embeds = self._main_retrieve(question_hidden_states, n_docs)
        return retrieved_doc_embeds, doc_ids, self.index.get_doc_dicts(doc_ids)

    def set_ctx_encoder_tokenizer(self, ctx_encoder_tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer):
        # used in end2end retriever training
        self.ctx_encoder_tokenizer = ctx_encoder_tokenizer
        self.return_tokenized_docs = True

    def __call__(
        self,
        question_input_ids: List[List[int]],
        question_hidden_states: np.ndarray,
        prefix=None,
        n_docs=None,
        return_tensors=None,
    ) -> BatchEncoding:
        """
        Retrieves documents for specified `question_hidden_states`.

        Args:
            question_input_ids (`List[List[int]]`) batch of input ids
            question_hidden_states (`np.ndarray` of shape `(batch_size, vector_size)`:
                A batch of query vectors to retrieve with.
            prefix (`str`, *optional*):
                The prefix used by the generator's tokenizer.
            n_docs (`int`, *optional*):
                The number of docs retrieved per query.
            return_tensors (`str` or [`~utils.TensorType`], *optional*, defaults to "pt"):
                If set, will return tensors instead of list of python integers. Acceptable values are:

                - `'tf'`: Return TensorFlow `tf.constant` objects.
                - `'pt'`: Return PyTorch `torch.Tensor` objects.
                - `'np'`: Return Numpy `np.ndarray` objects.

        Returns: [`BatchEncoding`]: A [`BatchEncoding`] with the following fields:

            - **context_input_ids** -- List of token ids to be fed to a model.

              [What are input IDs?](../glossary#input-ids)

            - **context_attention_mask** -- List of indices specifying which tokens should be attended to by the model
            (when `return_attention_mask=True` or if *"attention_mask"* is in `self.model_input_names`).

              [What are attention masks?](../glossary#attention-mask)

            - **retrieved_doc_embeds** -- List of embeddings of the retrieved documents
            - **doc_ids** -- List of ids of the retrieved documents
        """

        n_docs = n_docs if n_docs is not None else self.n_docs
        prefix = prefix if prefix is not None else self.config.generator.prefix
        retrieved_doc_embeds, doc_ids, docs = self.retrieve(question_hidden_states, n_docs)

        input_strings = self.question_encoder_tokenizer.batch_decode(question_input_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
        context_input_ids, context_attention_mask = self.postprocess_docs(
            docs, input_strings, prefix, n_docs, return_tensors=return_tensors
        )

        if self.return_tokenized_docs:
            retrieved_doc_text = []
            retrieved_doc_title = []

            for b_idx in range(len(docs)):
                for doc_idx in range(n_docs):
                    retrieved_doc_text.append(docs[b_idx]["text"][doc_idx])
                    retrieved_doc_title.append(docs[b_idx]["title"][doc_idx])

            tokenized_docs = self.ctx_encoder_tokenizer(
                retrieved_doc_title,
                retrieved_doc_text,
                truncation=True,
                padding="longest",
                return_tensors=return_tensors,
            )

            return BatchEncoding(
                {
                    "context_input_ids": context_input_ids,
                    "context_attention_mask": context_attention_mask,
                    "retrieved_doc_embeds": retrieved_doc_embeds,
                    "doc_ids": doc_ids,
                    "tokenized_doc_ids": tokenized_docs["input_ids"],
                    "tokenized_doc_attention_mask": tokenized_docs["attention_mask"],
                },
                tensor_type=return_tensors,
            )

        else:
            return BatchEncoding(
                {
                    "context_input_ids": context_input_ids,
                    "context_attention_mask": context_attention_mask,
                    "retrieved_doc_embeds": retrieved_doc_embeds,
                    "doc_ids": doc_ids,
                },
                tensor_type=return_tensors,
            )