langchain/templates/rag-chroma-dense-retrieval/README.md

# rag-chroma-dense-retrieval

This template demonstrates the multi-vector indexing strategy proposed by Chen, et. al.'s [Dense X Retrieval: What Retrieval Granularity Should We Use?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06648). The prompt, which you can [try out on the hub](https://smith.langchain.com/hub/wfh/proposal-indexing), directs an LLM to generate de-contextualized "propositions" which can be vectorized to increase the retrieval accuracy. You can see the full definition in `proposal_chain.py`.

![Retriever Diagram](./_images/retriever_diagram.png)

## Storage

For this demo, we index a simple academic paper using the RecursiveUrlLoader, and store all retriever information locally (using chroma and a bytestore stored on the local filesystem). You can modify the storage layer in `storage.py`.

## Environment Setup

Set the `OPENAI_API_KEY` environment variable to access `gpt-3.5` and the OpenAI Embeddings classes.

## Indexing

Create the index by running the following:

```python
poetry install
poetry run python rag_chroma_dense_retrieval/ingest.py
```

## Usage

To use this package, you should first have the LangChain CLI installed:

```shell
pip install -U langchain-cli
```

To create a new LangChain project and install this as the only package, you can do:

```shell
langchain app new my-app --package rag-chroma-dense-retrieval
```

If you want to add this to an existing project, you can just run:

```shell
langchain app add rag-chroma-dense-retrieval
```

And add the following code to your `server.py` file:

```python
from rag_chroma_dense_retrieval import chain

add_routes(app, chain, path="/rag-chroma-dense-retrieval")
```

(Optional) Let's now configure LangSmith.
LangSmith will help us trace, monitor and debug LangChain applications.
LangSmith is currently in private beta, you can sign up [here](https://smith.langchain.com/).
If you don't have access, you can skip this section

```shell
export LANGCHAIN_TRACING_V2=true
export LANGCHAIN_API_KEY=<your-api-key>
export LANGCHAIN_PROJECT=<your-project>  # if not specified, defaults to "default"
```

If you are inside this directory, then you can spin up a LangServe instance directly by:

```shell
langchain serve
```

This will start the FastAPI app with a server is running locally at
[http://localhost:8000](http://localhost:8000)

We can see all templates at [http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs](http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs)
We can access the playground at [http://127.0.0.1:8000/rag-chroma-dense-retrieval/playground](http://127.0.0.1:8000/rag-chroma-dense-retrieval/playground)

We can access the template from code with:

```python
from langserve.client import RemoteRunnable

runnable = RemoteRunnable("http://localhost:8000/rag-chroma-dense-retrieval")
```