[docs]    def embed_query(self, text: str) -> List[float]:
        """Compute query embeddings using a HuggingFace transformer model.
        Args:
            text: The text to embed.
        Returns:
            Embeddings for the text.
        """
        text = text.replace("\n", " ")
        embeddings = self.client(self.pipeline_ref, text)
        if not isinstance(embeddings, list):
            return embeddings.tolist()
        return embeddings