Update CI, bump fast-plaid to 1.4.4, and add low_memory parameter

[raphaelsty]

Summary

• Update CI to test Python 3.10 and 3.14
• Bump fast-plaid dependency to >=1.4.4.270,<=1.4.4.290
• Add configurable low_memory parameter to FastPlaid index (defaults to False for faster GPU search)

Changes

• pyproject.toml: Updated fast-plaid version range
• pylate/indexes/fast_plaid.py: Added low_memory parameter with docstring, passed through to search.FastPlaid()

[raphaelsty]

Investigating how to make fast-plaid compatible with python 3.14 version

lightonai/fast-plaid#37

Blocker encountered with tch-rs, it's ok for now to not support python 3.14, we will as soon as tch-rs support recent PyO3 version

LaurentMazare/tch-rs#1002

[mchar7]

I see you hit the tch-rs wall for 3.14 support. I've been poking at the same issue.

I managed to get fast-plaid built and running on 3.14 with the ABI3 compatibility flag. Built a wheel locally and ran the PyLate and fast-plaid test suites and all pass.

This would just need to be added to CIBW_ENVIRONMENT:

PYO3_USE_ABI3_FORWARD_COMPATIBILITY=1

That would be a no-op for <3.14 and your existing --exclude libtorch* auditwheel flags handle the bundling correctly.

I'd get it if if you'd prefer to wait for tch-rs to properly support PyO3 0.28, but if you want to unblock 3.14 now I can throw together a PR for fast-plaid#37.

[raphaelsty]

You rock @mchar7, would love to get a PR with the CIBW flag, thank you for the feedback

[mchar7]

I pushed a few commits on top of your branch to get the 3.14 tests green.

• Bumped sentence-transformers and transformers to the 5.x line. This fixes the main issue where ModernBERT's @torch.compile decorators caused an import crash on 3.14. Also bumped ujson for cp314 wheels and synced the ruff target version to py310. (b820113)
• Transformers 5.x dropped overwrite_output_dir, so I removed it from the training tests and docs. Also skipped Voyager in test_retriever.py on 3.14 since there's no wheel yet. (460f973)
• Added lightonai/GTE-ModernColBERT-v1 to the parametrized load tests to catch this specific regression going forward. (bc70208)
• Fixed the PLAID tests on Windows 3.14. zlib-state (pulled in by ranx) doesn't have cp314 wheels and fails to build without zlib.h. Swapped --extra dev for --with pytest --with pytest-cov in the workflow since eval deps aren't needed there anyway. (4a3658c)

All workflows passing: CI run (mchar7#1). Branch is at mchar7/pylate:python314-fix (https://github.com/mchar7/pylate/tree/python314-fix) if you want to scan through.