langchain_community.vectorstores.vald.Vald

class langchain_community.vectorstores.vald.Vald(embedding: Embeddings, host: str = 'localhost', port: int = 8080, grpc_options: Tuple = (('grpc.keepalive_time_ms', 10000), ('grpc.keepalive_timeout_ms', 10000)), grpc_use_secure: bool = False, grpc_credentials: Optional[Any] = None)[source]

Vald vector database.

To use, you should have the vald-client-python python package installed.

Example

from langchain_community.embeddings import HuggingFaceEmbeddings
from langchain_community.vectorstores import Vald

texts = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
vald = Vald.from_texts(
    texts=texts,
    embedding=HuggingFaceEmbeddings(),
    host="localhost",
    port=8080,
    skip_strict_exist_check=False,
 )

Attributes

embeddings

Access the query embedding object if available.

Methods

__init__(embedding[, host, port, ...])

aadd_documents(documents, **kwargs)

Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

aadd_texts(texts[, metadatas])

Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

add_documents(documents, **kwargs)

Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

add_texts(texts[, metadatas, grpc_metadata, ...])

param skip_strict_exist_check

Deprecated. This is not used basically.

adelete([ids])

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

afrom_documents(documents, embedding, **kwargs)

Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

afrom_texts(texts, embedding[, metadatas])

Return VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.

amax_marginal_relevance_search(query[, k, ...])

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

amax_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(...)

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

as_retriever(**kwargs)

Return VectorStoreRetriever initialized from this VectorStore.

asearch(query, search_type, **kwargs)

Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.

asimilarity_search(query[, k])

Return docs most similar to query.

asimilarity_search_by_vector(embedding[, k])

Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

asimilarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query)

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1], asynchronously.

asimilarity_search_with_score(*args, **kwargs)

Run similarity search with distance asynchronously.

delete([ids, skip_strict_exist_check, ...])

param skip_strict_exist_check

Deprecated. This is not used basically.

from_documents(documents, embedding, **kwargs)

Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

from_texts(texts, embedding[, metadatas, ...])

param skip_strict_exist_check

Deprecated. This is not used basically.

max_marginal_relevance_search(query[, k, ...])

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

max_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(...)

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

search(query, search_type, **kwargs)

Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.

similarity_search(query[, k, radius, ...])

Return docs most similar to query.

similarity_search_by_vector(embedding[, k, ...])

Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

similarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query)

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].

similarity_search_with_score(query[, k, ...])

Run similarity search with distance.

similarity_search_with_score_by_vector(embedding)

Parameters

  • embedding (Embeddings) –

  • host (str) –

  • port (int) –

  • grpc_options (Tuple) –

  • grpc_use_secure (bool) –

  • grpc_credentials (Optional[Any]) –

__init__(embedding: Embeddings, host: str = 'localhost', port: int = 8080, grpc_options: Tuple = (('grpc.keepalive_time_ms', 10000), ('grpc.keepalive_timeout_ms', 10000)), grpc_use_secure: bool = False, grpc_credentials: Optional[Any] = None)[source]
Parameters

  • embedding (Embeddings) –

  • host (str) –

  • port (int) –

  • grpc_options (Tuple) –

  • grpc_use_secure (bool) –

  • grpc_credentials (Optional[Any]) –

async aadd_documents(documents: List[Document], **kwargs: Any) → List[str]

Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters

  • (List[Document] (documents) – Documents to add to the vectorstore.

  • documents (List[Document]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of IDs of the added texts.

Return type

List[str]

async aadd_texts(texts: Iterable[str], metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[str]

Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters

  • texts (Iterable[str]) –

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[str]

add_documents(documents: List[Document], **kwargs: Any) → List[str]

Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters

  • (List[Document] (documents) – Documents to add to the vectorstore.

  • documents (List[Document]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of IDs of the added texts.

Return type

List[str]

add_texts(texts: Iterable[str], metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, grpc_metadata: Optional[Any] = None, skip_strict_exist_check: bool = False, **kwargs: Any) → List[str][source]
Parameters

  • skip_strict_exist_check (bool) – Deprecated. This is not used basically.

  • texts (Iterable[str]) –

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) –

  • grpc_metadata (Optional[Any]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[str]

async adelete(ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → Optional[bool]

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

Parameters

  • ids (Optional[List[str]]) – List of ids to delete.

  • **kwargs (Any) – Other keyword arguments that subclasses might use.

Returns

True if deletion is successful, False otherwise, None if not implemented.

Return type

Optional[bool]

async classmethod afrom_documents(documents: List[Document], embedding: Embeddings, **kwargs: Any) → VST

Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

Parameters
Return type

VST

async classmethod afrom_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Embeddings, metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → VST

Return VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.

Parameters

  • texts (List[str]) –

  • embedding (Embeddings) –

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

VST

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters

  • query (str) – Text to look up documents similar to.

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm.

  • lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type

List[Document]

async amax_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Parameters

  • embedding (List[float]) –

  • k (int) –

  • fetch_k (int) –

  • lambda_mult (float) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

as_retriever(**kwargs: Any) → VectorStoreRetriever

Return VectorStoreRetriever initialized from this VectorStore.

Parameters

  • search_type (Optional[str]) – Defines the type of search that the Retriever should perform. Can be “similarity” (default), “mmr”, or “similarity_score_threshold”.

  • search_kwargs (Optional[Dict]) –

    Keyword arguments to pass to the search function. Can include things like:

    k: Amount of documents to return (Default: 4) score_threshold: Minimum relevance threshold

    for similarity_score_threshold

    fetch_k: Amount of documents to pass to MMR algorithm (Default: 20) lambda_mult: Diversity of results returned by MMR;

    1 for minimum diversity and 0 for maximum. (Default: 0.5)

    filter: Filter by document metadata

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

Retriever class for VectorStore.

Return type

VectorStoreRetriever

Examples:

# Retrieve more documents with higher diversity
# Useful if your dataset has many similar documents
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="mmr",
    search_kwargs={'k': 6, 'lambda_mult': 0.25}
)

# Fetch more documents for the MMR algorithm to consider
# But only return the top 5
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="mmr",
    search_kwargs={'k': 5, 'fetch_k': 50}
)

# Only retrieve documents that have a relevance score
# Above a certain threshold
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="similarity_score_threshold",
    search_kwargs={'score_threshold': 0.8}
)

# Only get the single most similar document from the dataset
docsearch.as_retriever(search_kwargs={'k': 1})

# Use a filter to only retrieve documents from a specific paper
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_kwargs={'filter': {'paper_title':'GPT-4 Technical Report'}}
)
async asearch(query: str, search_type: str, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]

Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.

Parameters

  • query (str) –

  • search_type (str) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

Return docs most similar to query.

Parameters

  • query (str) –

  • k (int) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

async asimilarity_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]

Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

Parameters

  • embedding (List[float]) –

  • k (int) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

async asimilarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Tuple[Document, float]]

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1], asynchronously.

0 is dissimilar, 1 is most similar.

Parameters

  • query (str) – input text

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • **kwargs (Any) –

    kwargs to be passed to similarity search. Should include: score_threshold: Optional, a floating point value between 0 to 1 to

    filter the resulting set of retrieved docs

Returns

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score)

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

async asimilarity_search_with_score(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) → List[Tuple[Document, float]]

Run similarity search with distance asynchronously.

Parameters

  • args (Any) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

delete(ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, skip_strict_exist_check: bool = False, grpc_metadata: Optional[Any] = None, **kwargs: Any) → Optional[bool][source]
Parameters

  • skip_strict_exist_check (bool) – Deprecated. This is not used basically.

  • ids (Optional[List[str]]) –

  • grpc_metadata (Optional[Any]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

Optional[bool]

classmethod from_documents(documents: List[Document], embedding: Embeddings, **kwargs: Any) → VST

Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

Parameters
Return type

VST

classmethod from_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Embeddings, metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, host: str = 'localhost', port: int = 8080, grpc_options: Tuple = (('grpc.keepalive_time_ms', 10000), ('grpc.keepalive_timeout_ms', 10000)), grpc_use_secure: bool = False, grpc_credentials: Optional[Any] = None, grpc_metadata: Optional[Any] = None, skip_strict_exist_check: bool = False, **kwargs: Any) → Vald[source]
Parameters

  • skip_strict_exist_check (bool) – Deprecated. This is not used basically.

  • texts (List[str]) –

  • embedding (Embeddings) –

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) –

  • host (str) –

  • port (int) –

  • grpc_options (Tuple) –

  • grpc_use_secure (bool) –

  • grpc_credentials (Optional[Any]) –

  • grpc_metadata (Optional[Any]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

Vald

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters

  • query (str) – Text to look up documents similar to.

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm.

  • lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.

  • radius (float) –

  • epsilon (float) –

  • timeout (int) –

  • grpc_metadata (Optional[Any]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type

List[Document]

max_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, radius: float = -1.0, epsilon: float = 0.01, timeout: int = 3000000000, grpc_metadata: Optional[Any] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document][source]

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters

  • embedding (List[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm.

  • lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.

  • radius (float) –

  • epsilon (float) –

  • timeout (int) –

  • grpc_metadata (Optional[Any]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type

List[Document]

search(query: str, search_type: str, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document]

Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.

Parameters

  • query (str) –

  • search_type (str) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

Return docs most similar to query.

Parameters

  • query (str) –

  • k (int) –

  • radius (float) –

  • epsilon (float) –

  • timeout (int) –

  • grpc_metadata (Optional[Any]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

similarity_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, radius: float = -1.0, epsilon: float = 0.01, timeout: int = 3000000000, grpc_metadata: Optional[Any] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[Document][source]

Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

Parameters

  • embedding (List[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • radius (float) –

  • epsilon (float) –

  • timeout (int) –

  • grpc_metadata (Optional[Any]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents most similar to the query vector.

Return type

List[Document]

similarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) → List[Tuple[Document, float]]

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].

0 is dissimilar, 1 is most similar.

Parameters

  • query (str) – input text

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • **kwargs (Any) –

    kwargs to be passed to similarity search. Should include: score_threshold: Optional, a floating point value between 0 to 1 to

    filter the resulting set of retrieved docs

Returns

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score)

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

similarity_search_with_score(query: str, k: int = 4, radius: float = -1.0, epsilon: float = 0.01, timeout: int = 3000000000, grpc_metadata: Optional[Any] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[Tuple[Document, float]][source]

Run similarity search with distance.

Parameters

  • query (str) –

  • k (int) –

  • radius (float) –

  • epsilon (float) –

  • timeout (int) –

  • grpc_metadata (Optional[Any]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

similarity_search_with_score_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, radius: float = -1.0, epsilon: float = 0.01, timeout: int = 3000000000, grpc_metadata: Optional[Any] = None, **kwargs: Any) → List[Tuple[Document, float]][source]
Parameters

  • embedding (List[float]) –

  • k (int) –

  • radius (float) –

  • epsilon (float) –

  • timeout (int) –

  • grpc_metadata (Optional[Any]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

Examples using Vald