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>
# 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>
