This PR updates the Vectara integration (@hwchase17 ):
* Adds reuse of requests.session to imrpove efficiency and speed.
* Utilizes Vectara's low-level API (instead of standard API) to better
match user's specific chunking with LangChain
* Now add_texts puts all the texts into a single Vectara document so
indexing is much faster.
* updated variables names from alpha to lambda_val (to be consistent
with Vectara docs) and added n_context_sentence so it's available to use
if needed.
* Updates to documentation and tests
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Co-authored-by: Harrison Chase <hw.chase.17@gmail.com>
# Scores in Vectorestores' Docs Are Explained
Following vectorestores can return scores with similar documents by
using `similarity_search_with_score`:
- chroma
- docarray_hnsw
- docarray_in_memory
- faiss
- myscale
- qdrant
- supabase
- vectara
- weaviate
However, in documents, these scores were either not explained at all or
explained in a way that could lead to misunderstandings (e.g., FAISS).
For instance in FAISS document: if we consider the score returned by the
function as a similarity score, we understand that a document returning
a higher score is more similar to the source document. However, since
the scores returned by the function are distance scores, we should
understand that smaller scores correspond to more similar documents.
For the libraries other than Vectara, I wrote the scores they use by
investigating from the source libraries. Since I couldn't be certain
about the score metric used by Vectara, I didn't make any changes in its
documentation. The links mentioned in Vectara's documentation became
broken due to updates, so I replaced them with working ones.
VectorStores / Retrievers / Memory
- @dev2049
my twitter: [berkedilekoglu](https://twitter.com/berkedilekoglu)
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Co-authored-by: Harrison Chase <hw.chase.17@gmail.com>
# Vectara Integration
This PR provides integration with Vectara. Implemented here are:
* langchain/vectorstore/vectara.py
* tests/integration_tests/vectorstores/test_vectara.py
* langchain/retrievers/vectara_retriever.py
And two IPYNB notebooks to do more testing:
* docs/modules/chains/index_examples/vectara_text_generation.ipynb
* docs/modules/indexes/vectorstores/examples/vectara.ipynb
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Co-authored-by: Dev 2049 <dev.dev2049@gmail.com>
