- Cause chunks are joined by space, so they can't be found in text, and
the final `start_index` is very possibility to be -1.
- The simplest way is to use the natural index of the chunk as
`start_index`.
Within the semantic chunker, when calling `_threshold_from_clusters`
there is the possibility for a divide by 0 error if the
`number_of_chunks` is equal to the length of `distances`.
Fix simply implements a check if these values match to prevent the error
and enable chunking to continue.
```SemanticChunker``` currently provide three methods to split the texts semantically:
- percentile
- standard_deviation
- interquartile
I propose new method ```gradient```. In this method, the gradient of distance is used to split chunks along with the percentile method (technically) . This method is useful when chunks are highly correlated with each other or specific to a domain e.g. legal or medical. The idea is to apply anomaly detection on gradient array so that the distribution become wider and easy to identify boundaries in highly semantic data.
I have tested this merge on a set of 10 domain specific documents (mostly legal).
Details :
- **Issue:** Improvement
- **Dependencies:** NA
- **Twitter handle:** [x.com/prajapat_ravi](https://x.com/prajapat_ravi)
@hwchase17
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Co-authored-by: Raviraj Prajapat <raviraj.prajapat@sirionlabs.com>
Co-authored-by: isaac hershenson <ihershenson@hmc.edu>
- **Description:** Currently, the regex is static (`r"(?<=[.?!])\s+"`),
which is only useful for certain use cases. The current change only
moves this to be a parameter of split_text(). Which adds flexibility
without making it more complex (as the default regex is still the same).
- **Issue:** Not applicable (I searched, no one seems to have created
this issue yet).
- **Dependencies:** None.
_If no one reviews your PR within a few days, please @-mention one of
baskaryan, efriis, eyurtsev, hwchase17._
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Co-authored-by: Bagatur <22008038+baskaryan@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Bagatur <baskaryan@gmail.com>
**Description**
Adding different threshold types to the semantic chunker. I’ve had much
better and predictable performance when using standard deviations
instead of percentiles.
For all the documents I’ve tried, the distribution of distances look
similar to the above: positively skewed normal distribution. All skews
I’ve seen are less than 1 so that explains why standard deviations
perform well, but I’ve included IQR if anyone wants something more
robust.
Also, using the percentile method backwards, you can declare the number
of clusters and use semantic chunking to get an ‘optimal’ splitting.
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Co-authored-by: Harrison Chase <hw.chase.17@gmail.com>
As described in issue #17060, in the case in which text has only one
sentence the following function fails. Checking for that and adding a
return case fixed the issue.
```python
def split_text(self, text: str) -> List[str]:
"""Split text into multiple components."""
# Splitting the essay on '.', '?', and '!'
single_sentences_list = re.split(r"(?<=[.?!])\s+", text)
sentences = [
{"sentence": x, "index": i} for i, x in enumerate(single_sentences_list)
]
sentences = combine_sentences(sentences)
embeddings = self.embeddings.embed_documents(
[x["combined_sentence"] for x in sentences]
)
for i, sentence in enumerate(sentences):
sentence["combined_sentence_embedding"] = embeddings[i]
distances, sentences = calculate_cosine_distances(sentences)
start_index = 0
# Create a list to hold the grouped sentences
chunks = []
breakpoint_percentile_threshold = 95
breakpoint_distance_threshold = np.percentile(
distances, breakpoint_percentile_threshold
) # If you want more chunks, lower the percentile cutoff
indices_above_thresh = [
i for i, x in enumerate(distances) if x > breakpoint_distance_threshold
] # The indices of those breakpoints on your list
# Iterate through the breakpoints to slice the sentences
for index in indices_above_thresh:
# The end index is the current breakpoint
end_index = index
# Slice the sentence_dicts from the current start index to the end index
group = sentences[start_index : end_index + 1]
combined_text = " ".join([d["sentence"] for d in group])
chunks.append(combined_text)
# Update the start index for the next group
start_index = index + 1
# The last group, if any sentences remain
if start_index < len(sentences):
combined_text = " ".join([d["sentence"] for d in sentences[start_index:]])
chunks.append(combined_text)
return chunks
```
Co-authored-by: Giulio Zani <salamanderxing@Giulios-MBP.homenet.telecomitalia.it>
