Improve EmbeddingGeneratorExtensions

- Renames GenerateAsync extension method (not the interface method) to be GenerateEmbeddingAsync, since it produces a single TEmbedding
- Adds GenerateEmbeddingVectorAsync, which returns a `ReadOnlyMemory<T>`
- Adds a GenerateAndZipEmbeddingsAsync, which creates a `List<KeyValuePair<TInput, TEmbedding>>` that pairs the inputs with the outputs.

src/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Abstractions/Embeddings/EmbeddingGeneratorExtensions.cs

@@ -2,26 +2,35 @@
 // The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
 
 using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using Microsoft.Shared.Diagnostics;
 
 namespace Microsoft.Extensions.AI;
 
-/// <summary>Provides a collection of static methods for extending <see cref="IEmbeddingGenerator{TValue,TEmbedding}"/> instances.</summary>
+/// <summary>Provides a collection of static methods for extending <see cref="IEmbeddingGenerator{TInput,TEmbedding}"/> instances.</summary>
 public static class EmbeddingGeneratorExtensions
 {
     /// <summary>Generates an embedding from the specified <paramref name="value"/>.</summary>
-    /// <typeparam name="TValue">The type from which embeddings will be generated.</typeparam>
-    /// <typeparam name="TEmbedding">The numeric type of the embedding data.</typeparam>
+    /// <typeparam name="TInput">The type from which embeddings will be generated.</typeparam>
+    /// <typeparam name="TEmbedding">The type of embedding to generate.</typeparam>
     /// <param name="generator">The embedding generator.</param>
     /// <param name="value">A value from which an embedding will be generated.</param>
     /// <param name="options">The embedding generation options to configure the request.</param>
     /// <param name="cancellationToken">The <see cref="CancellationToken"/> to monitor for cancellation requests. The default is <see cref="CancellationToken.None"/>.</param>
-    /// <returns>The generated embedding for the specified <paramref name="value"/>.</returns>
-    public static async Task<TEmbedding> GenerateAsync<TValue, TEmbedding>(
-        this IEmbeddingGenerator<TValue, TEmbedding> generator,
-        TValue value,
+    /// <returns>
+    /// The generated embedding for the specified <paramref name="value"/>.
+    /// </returns>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// This operations is equivalent to using <see cref="IEmbeddingGenerator{TInput, TEmbedding}.GenerateAsync"/> with a
+    /// collection composed of the single <paramref name="value"/> and then returning the first embedding element from the
+    /// resulting <see cref="GeneratedEmbeddings{TEmbedding}"/> collection.
+    /// </remarks>
+    public static async Task<TEmbedding> GenerateEmbeddingAsync<TInput, TEmbedding>(
+        this IEmbeddingGenerator<TInput, TEmbedding> generator,
+        TInput value,
         EmbeddingGenerationOptions? options = null,
         CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
         where TEmbedding : Embedding
@@ -37,4 +46,64 @@ public static async Task<TEmbedding> GenerateAsync<TValue, TEmbedding>(
 
         return embeddings[0];
     }
+
+    /// <summary>Generates an embedding vector from the specified <paramref name="value"/>.</summary>
+    /// <typeparam name="TInput">The type from which embeddings will be generated.</typeparam>
+    /// <typeparam name="TEmbedding">The numeric type of the embedding data.</typeparam>
+    /// <param name="generator">The embedding generator.</param>
+    /// <param name="value">A value from which an embedding will be generated.</param>
+    /// <param name="options">The embedding generation options to configure the request.</param>
+    /// <param name="cancellationToken">The <see cref="CancellationToken"/> to monitor for cancellation requests. The default is <see cref="CancellationToken.None"/>.</param>
+    /// <returns>The generated embedding for the specified <paramref name="value"/>.</returns>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// This operation is equivalent to using <see cref="GenerateEmbeddingAsync"/> and returning the
+    /// resulting <see cref="Embedding{T}"/>'s <see cref="Embedding{T}.Vector"/> property.
+    /// </remarks>
+    public static async Task<ReadOnlyMemory<TEmbedding>> GenerateEmbeddingVectorAsync<TInput, TEmbedding>(
+        this IEmbeddingGenerator<TInput, Embedding<TEmbedding>> generator,
+        TInput value,
+        EmbeddingGenerationOptions? options = null,
+        CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+    {
+        var embedding = await GenerateEmbeddingAsync(generator, value, options, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        return embedding.Vector;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Generates embeddings for each of the supplied <paramref name="values"/> and produces a list that pairs
+    /// each input with its resulting embedding.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <typeparam name="TInput">The type from which embeddings will be generated.</typeparam>
+    /// <typeparam name="TEmbedding">The type of embedding to generate.</typeparam>
+    /// <param name="generator">The embedding generator.</param>
+    /// <param name="values">The collection of values for which to generate embeddings.</param>
+    /// <param name="options">The embedding generation options to configure the request.</param>
+    /// <param name="cancellationToken">The <see cref="CancellationToken"/> to monitor for cancellation requests. The default is <see cref="CancellationToken.None"/>.</param>
+    /// <returns>The generated embeddings.</returns>
+    public static async Task<IList<KeyValuePair<TInput, TEmbedding>>> GenerateAndZipEmbeddingsAsync<TInput, TEmbedding>(
+        this IEmbeddingGenerator<TInput, TEmbedding> generator,
+        IEnumerable<TInput> values,
+        EmbeddingGenerationOptions? options = null,
+        CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+        where TEmbedding : Embedding
+    {
+        _ = Throw.IfNull(generator);
+        _ = Throw.IfNull(values);
+
+        IList<TInput> inputs = values as IList<TInput> ?? values.ToList();
+
+        var embeddings = await generator.GenerateAsync(values, options, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        if (embeddings.Count != inputs.Count)
+        {
+            throw new InvalidOperationException($"Expected the number of embeddings ({embeddings.Count}) to match the number of inputs ({inputs.Count}).");
+        }
+
+        List<KeyValuePair<TInput, TEmbedding>> results = new(embeddings.Count);
+        for (int i = 0; i < embeddings.Count; i++)
+        {
+            results.Add(new KeyValuePair<TInput, TEmbedding>(inputs[i], embeddings[i]));
+        }
+
+        return results;
+    }
 }

test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Abstractions.Tests/Embeddings/EmbeddingGeneratorExtensionsTests.cs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 // The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
 
 using System;
+using System.Linq;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using Xunit;
 
@@ -12,7 +13,9 @@ public class EmbeddingGeneratorExtensionsTests
     [Fact]
     public async Task GenerateAsync_InvalidArgs_ThrowsAsync()
     {
-        await Assert.ThrowsAsync<ArgumentNullException>("generator", () => ((TestEmbeddingGenerator)null!).GenerateAsync("hello"));
+        await Assert.ThrowsAsync<ArgumentNullException>("generator", () => ((TestEmbeddingGenerator)null!).GenerateEmbeddingAsync("hello"));
+        await Assert.ThrowsAsync<ArgumentNullException>("generator", () => ((TestEmbeddingGenerator)null!).GenerateEmbeddingVectorAsync("hello"));
+        await Assert.ThrowsAsync<ArgumentNullException>("generator", () => ((TestEmbeddingGenerator)null!).GenerateAndZipEmbeddingsAsync(["hello"]));
     }
 
     [Fact]
@@ -26,6 +29,35 @@ public async Task GenerateAsync_ReturnsSingleEmbeddingAsync()
                 Task.FromResult<GeneratedEmbeddings<Embedding<float>>>([result])
         };
 
-        Assert.Same(result, await service.GenerateAsync("hello"));
+        Assert.Same(result, await service.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("hello"));
+        Assert.Equal(result.Vector, await service.GenerateEmbeddingVectorAsync("hello"));
+    }
+
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData(0)]
+    [InlineData(1)]
+    [InlineData(10)]
+    public async Task GenerateAndZipEmbeddingsAsync_ReturnsExpectedList(int count)
+    {
+        string[] inputs = Enumerable.Range(0, count).Select(i => $"hello {i}").ToArray();
+        Embedding<float>[] embeddings = Enumerable
+            .Range(0, count)
+            .Select(i => new Embedding<float>(Enumerable.Range(i, 4).Select(i => (float)i).ToArray()))
+            .ToArray();
+
+        using TestEmbeddingGenerator service = new()
+        {
+            GenerateAsyncCallback = (values, options, cancellationToken) =>
+                Task.FromResult<GeneratedEmbeddings<Embedding<float>>>(new(embeddings))
+        };
+
+        var results = await service.GenerateAndZipEmbeddingsAsync(inputs);
+        Assert.NotNull(results);
+        Assert.Equal(count, results.Count);
+        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
+        {
+            Assert.Equal(inputs[i], results[i].Key);
+            Assert.Same(embeddings[i], results[i].Value);
+        }
     }
 }

test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Integration.Tests/EmbeddingGeneratorIntegrationTests.cs

@@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ public virtual async Task Caching_SameOutputsForSameInput()
             .Use(CreateEmbeddingGenerator()!);
 
         string input = "Red, White, and Blue";
-        var embedding1 = await generator.GenerateAsync(input);
-        var embedding2 = await generator.GenerateAsync(input);
-        var embedding3 = await generator.GenerateAsync(input + "... and Green");
-        var embedding4 = await generator.GenerateAsync(input);
+        var embedding1 = await generator.GenerateEmbeddingAsync(input);
+        var embedding2 = await generator.GenerateEmbeddingAsync(input);
+        var embedding3 = await generator.GenerateEmbeddingAsync(input + "... and Green");
+        var embedding4 = await generator.GenerateEmbeddingAsync(input);
 
         var callCounter = generator.GetService<CallCountingEmbeddingGenerator>();
         Assert.NotNull(callCounter);
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public virtual async Task OpenTelemetry_CanEmitTracesAndMetrics()
             .UseOpenTelemetry(sourceName: sourceName)
             .Use(CreateEmbeddingGenerator()!);
 
-        _ = await embeddingGenerator.GenerateAsync("Hello, world!");
+        _ = await embeddingGenerator.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("Hello, world!");
 
         Assert.Single(activities);
         var activity = activities.Single();

test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Tests/Embeddings/DistributedCachingEmbeddingGeneratorTest.cs

@@ -43,12 +43,12 @@ public async Task CachesSuccessResultsAsync()
         };
 
         // Make the initial request and do a quick sanity check
-        var result1 = await outer.GenerateAsync("abc");
+        var result1 = await outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc");
         AssertEmbeddingsEqual(_expectedEmbedding, result1);
         Assert.Equal(1, innerCallCount);
 
         // Act
-        var result2 = await outer.GenerateAsync("abc");
+        var result2 = await outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc");
 
         // Assert
         Assert.Equal(1, innerCallCount);
@@ -134,8 +134,8 @@ public async Task AllowsConcurrentCallsAsync()
         };
 
         // Act 1: Concurrent calls before resolution are passed into the inner client
-        var result1 = outer.GenerateAsync("abc");
-        var result2 = outer.GenerateAsync("abc");
+        var result1 = outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc");
+        var result2 = outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc");
 
         // Assert 1
         Assert.Equal(2, innerCallCount);
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ public async Task AllowsConcurrentCallsAsync()
         AssertEmbeddingsEqual(_expectedEmbedding, await result2);
 
         // Act 2: Subsequent calls after completion are resolved from the cache
-        var result3 = await outer.GenerateAsync("abc");
+        var result3 = await outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc");
         Assert.Equal(2, innerCallCount);
         AssertEmbeddingsEqual(_expectedEmbedding, await result1);
     }
@@ -169,12 +169,12 @@ public async Task DoesNotCacheExceptionResultsAsync()
             JsonSerializerOptions = TestJsonSerializerContext.Default.Options,
         };
 
-        var ex1 = await Assert.ThrowsAsync<InvalidTimeZoneException>(() => outer.GenerateAsync("abc"));
+        var ex1 = await Assert.ThrowsAsync<InvalidTimeZoneException>(() => outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc"));
         Assert.Equal("some failure", ex1.Message);
         Assert.Equal(1, innerCallCount);
 
         // Act
-        var ex2 = await Assert.ThrowsAsync<InvalidTimeZoneException>(() => outer.GenerateAsync("abc"));
+        var ex2 = await Assert.ThrowsAsync<InvalidTimeZoneException>(() => outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc"));
 
         // Assert
         Assert.NotSame(ex1, ex2);
@@ -207,15 +207,15 @@ public async Task DoesNotCacheCanceledResultsAsync()
         };
 
         // First call gets cancelled
-        var result1 = outer.GenerateAsync("abc");
+        var result1 = outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc");
         Assert.False(result1.IsCompleted);
         Assert.Equal(1, innerCallCount);
         resolutionTcs.SetCanceled();
         await Assert.ThrowsAnyAsync<OperationCanceledException>(() => result1);
         Assert.True(result1.IsCanceled);
 
         // Act/Assert: Second call can succeed
-        var result2 = await outer.GenerateAsync("abc");
+        var result2 = await outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc");
         Assert.Equal(2, innerCallCount);
         AssertEmbeddingsEqual(_expectedEmbedding, result2);
     }
@@ -241,11 +241,11 @@ public async Task CacheKeyDoesNotVaryByEmbeddingOptionsAsync()
         };
 
         // Act: Call with two different options
-        var result1 = await outer.GenerateAsync("abc", new EmbeddingGenerationOptions
+        var result1 = await outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc", new EmbeddingGenerationOptions
         {
             AdditionalProperties = new() { ["someKey"] = "value 1" }
         });
-        var result2 = await outer.GenerateAsync("abc", new EmbeddingGenerationOptions
+        var result2 = await outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc", new EmbeddingGenerationOptions
         {
             AdditionalProperties = new() { ["someKey"] = "value 2" }
         });
@@ -277,11 +277,11 @@ public async Task SubclassCanOverrideCacheKeyToVaryByOptionsAsync()
         };
 
         // Act: Call with two different options
-        var result1 = await outer.GenerateAsync("abc", new EmbeddingGenerationOptions
+        var result1 = await outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc", new EmbeddingGenerationOptions
         {
             AdditionalProperties = new() { ["someKey"] = "value 1" }
         });
-        var result2 = await outer.GenerateAsync("abc", new EmbeddingGenerationOptions
+        var result2 = await outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc", new EmbeddingGenerationOptions
         {
             AdditionalProperties = new() { ["someKey"] = "value 2" }
         });
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ public async Task CanResolveIDistributedCacheFromDI()
 
         // Act: Make a request that should populate the cache
         Assert.Empty(_storage.Keys);
-        var result = await outer.GenerateAsync("abc");
+        var result = await outer.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("abc");
 
         // Assert
         Assert.NotNull(result);

test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Tests/Embeddings/LoggingEmbeddingGeneratorTests.cs

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public async Task CompleteAsync_LogsStartAndCompletion(LogLevel level)
             .UseLogging()
             .Use(innerGenerator);
 
-        await generator.GenerateAsync("Blue whale");
+        await generator.GenerateEmbeddingAsync("Blue whale");
 
         if (level is LogLevel.Trace)
         {