diff --git a/docs/modules/indexes/retrievers/examples/elastic_search_bm25.ipynb b/docs/modules/indexes/retrievers/examples/elastic_search_bm25.ipynb
index 424de3dcd4..35da9165e0 100644
--- a/docs/modules/indexes/retrievers/examples/elastic_search_bm25.ipynb
+++ b/docs/modules/indexes/retrievers/examples/elastic_search_bm25.ipynb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 2,
+   "execution_count": 1,
    "id": "393ac030",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
@@ -32,13 +32,13 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 12,
+   "execution_count": 2,
    "id": "bcb3c8c2",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "elasticsearch_url=\"http://localhost:9200\"\n",
-    "retriever = ElasticSearchBM25Retriever.create(elasticsearch_url, \"langchain-index-3\")"
+    "retriever = ElasticSearchBM25Retriever.create(elasticsearch_url, \"langchain-index-4\")"
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -66,21 +66,21 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 14,
+   "execution_count": 3,
    "id": "98b1c017",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
     {
      "data": {
       "text/plain": [
-       "['386c76c9-4355-4c12-aaeb-7b80054caf93',\n",
-       " 'fffd279c-a0c9-4158-a904-6e242c517c99',\n",
-       " '7f5528a3-18d0-43b0-894d-f6770a002219',\n",
-       " 'e2ef5e32-d5bd-44e2-b045-cfc5a8e0a0a1',\n",
-       " 'cce8ba48-e473-4235-bca2-2c8d65e73ccf']"
+       "['cbd4cb47-8d9f-4f34-b80e-ea871bc49856',\n",
+       " 'f3bd2e24-76d1-4f9b-826b-ec4c0e8c7365',\n",
+       " '8631bfc8-7c12-48ee-ab56-8ad5f373676e',\n",
+       " '8be8374c-3253-4d87-928d-d73550a2ecf0',\n",
+       " 'd79f457b-2842-4eab-ae10-77aa420b53d7']"
       ]
      },
-     "execution_count": 14,
+     "execution_count": 3,
      "metadata": {},
      "output_type": "execute_result"
     }
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 15,
+   "execution_count": 4,
    "id": "c0455218",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 16,
+   "execution_count": 5,
    "id": "7dfa5c29",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
        " Document(page_content='foo bar', metadata={})]"
       ]
      },
-     "execution_count": 16,
+     "execution_count": 5,
      "metadata": {},
      "output_type": "execute_result"
     }
diff --git a/docs/modules/indexes/retrievers/examples/tf_idf_retriever.ipynb b/docs/modules/indexes/retrievers/examples/tf_idf_retriever.ipynb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..008a96daf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/modules/indexes/retrievers/examples/tf_idf_retriever.ipynb
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "ab66dd43",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "# TF-IDF Retriever\n",
+    "\n",
+    "This notebook goes over how to use a retriever that under the hood uses TF-IDF using scikit-learn.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "For more information on the details of TF-IDF see [this blog post](https://medium.com/data-science-bootcamp/tf-idf-basics-of-information-retrieval-48de122b2a4c)."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 1,
+   "id": "393ac030",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "from langchain.retrievers import TFIDFRetriever"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "a801b57c",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# !pip install scikit-learn"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "aaf80e7f",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Create New Retriever with Texts"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 3,
+   "id": "98b1c017",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "retriever = TFIDFRetriever.from_texts([\"foo\", \"bar\", \"world\", \"hello\", \"foo bar\"])"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "08437fa2",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Use Retriever\n",
+    "\n",
+    "We can now use the retriever!"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 4,
+   "id": "c0455218",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "result = retriever.get_relevant_documents(\"foo\")"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 5,
+   "id": "7dfa5c29",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "data": {
+      "text/plain": [
+       "[Document(page_content='foo', metadata={}),\n",
+       " Document(page_content='foo bar', metadata={}),\n",
+       " Document(page_content='hello', metadata={}),\n",
+       " Document(page_content='world', metadata={})]"
+      ]
+     },
+     "execution_count": 5,
+     "metadata": {},
+     "output_type": "execute_result"
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "result"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "74bd9256",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.9.1"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}
diff --git a/langchain/retrievers/__init__.py b/langchain/retrievers/__init__.py
index 18224c62bb..efeff643b7 100644
--- a/langchain/retrievers/__init__.py
+++ b/langchain/retrievers/__init__.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from langchain.retrievers.elastic_search_bm25 import ElasticSearchBM25Retriever
 from langchain.retrievers.metal import MetalRetriever
 from langchain.retrievers.pinecone_hybrid_search import PineconeHybridSearchRetriever
 from langchain.retrievers.remote_retriever import RemoteLangChainRetriever
+from langchain.retrievers.tfidf import TFIDFRetriever
 
 __all__ = [
     "ChatGPTPluginRetriever",
@@ -10,4 +11,5 @@ __all__ = [
     "PineconeHybridSearchRetriever",
     "MetalRetriever",
     "ElasticSearchBM25Retriever",
+    "TFIDFRetriever",
 ]
diff --git a/langchain/retrievers/elastic_search_bm25.py b/langchain/retrievers/elastic_search_bm25.py
index 055e7c6e15..7e319d7370 100644
--- a/langchain/retrievers/elastic_search_bm25.py
+++ b/langchain/retrievers/elastic_search_bm25.py
@@ -49,29 +49,27 @@ class ElasticSearchBM25Retriever(BaseRetriever):
         es = Elasticsearch(elasticsearch_url)
 
         # Define the index settings and mappings
-        index_settings = {
-            "settings": {
-                "analysis": {"analyzer": {"default": {"type": "standard"}}},
-                "similarity": {
-                    "custom_bm25": {
-                        "type": "BM25",
-                        "k1": k1,
-                        "b": b,
-                    }
-                },
-            },
-            "mappings": {
-                "properties": {
-                    "content": {
-                        "type": "text",
-                        "similarity": "custom_bm25",  # Use the custom BM25 similarity
-                    }
+        settings = {
+            "analysis": {"analyzer": {"default": {"type": "standard"}}},
+            "similarity": {
+                "custom_bm25": {
+                    "type": "BM25",
+                    "k1": k1,
+                    "b": b,
                 }
             },
         }
+        mappings = {
+            "properties": {
+                "content": {
+                    "type": "text",
+                    "similarity": "custom_bm25",  # Use the custom BM25 similarity
+                }
+            }
+        }
 
         # Create the index with the specified settings and mappings
-        es.indices.create(index=index_name, body=index_settings)
+        es.indices.create(index=index_name, mappings=mappings, settings=settings)
         return cls(es, index_name)
 
     def add_texts(
diff --git a/langchain/retrievers/tfidf.py b/langchain/retrievers/tfidf.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2eef3cdd72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/langchain/retrievers/tfidf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+"""TF-IDF Retriever.
+
+Largely based on
+https://github.com/asvskartheek/Text-Retrieval/blob/master/TF-IDF%20Search%20Engine%20(SKLEARN).ipynb"""
+from typing import Any, List
+
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+
+from langchain.schema import BaseRetriever, Document
+
+
+class TFIDFRetriever(BaseRetriever, BaseModel):
+    vectorizer: Any
+    docs: List[Document]
+    tfidf_array: Any
+    k: int = 4
+
+    class Config:
+        """Configuration for this pydantic object."""
+
+        arbitrary_types_allowed = True
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_texts(cls, texts: List[str], **kwargs: Any) -> "TFIDFRetriever":
+        from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
+
+        vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer()
+        tfidf_array = vectorizer.fit_transform(texts)
+        docs = [Document(page_content=t) for t in texts]
+        return cls(vectorizer=vectorizer, docs=docs, tfidf_array=tfidf_array, **kwargs)
+
+    def get_relevant_documents(self, query: str) -> List[Document]:
+        from sklearn.metrics.pairwise import cosine_similarity
+
+        query_vec = self.vectorizer.transform(
+            [query]
+        )  # Ip -- (n_docs,x), Op -- (n_docs,n_Feats)
+        results = cosine_similarity(self.tfidf_array, query_vec).reshape(
+            (-1,)
+        )  # Op -- (n_docs,1) -- Cosine Sim with each doc
+        return_docs = []
+        for i in results.argsort()[-self.k :][::-1]:
+            return_docs.append(self.docs[i])
+        return return_docs
+
+    async def aget_relevant_documents(self, query: str) -> List[Document]:
+        raise NotImplementedError