langchain/docs/modules/indexes/retrievers/examples/vectorstore-retriever.ipynb

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    "# VectorStore Retriever\n",
    "\n",
    "The index - and therefore the retriever - that LangChain has the most support for is a VectorStoreRetriever. As the name suggests, this retriever is backed heavily by a VectorStore.\n",
    "\n",
    "Once you construct a VectorStore, its very easy to construct a retriever. Let's walk through an example."
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    "from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader\n",
    "loader = TextLoader('../../../state_of_the_union.txt')"
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   "source": [
    "from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter\n",
    "from langchain.vectorstores import FAISS\n",
    "from langchain.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings\n",
    "\n",
    "documents = loader.load()\n",
    "text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)\n",
    "texts = text_splitter.split_documents(documents)\n",
    "embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()\n",
    "db = FAISS.from_documents(texts, embeddings)"
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    "retriever = db.as_retriever()"
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    "docs = retriever.get_relevant_documents(\"what did he say about ketanji brown jackson\")"
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    "By default, the vectorstore retriever uses similarity search. If the underlying vectorstore support maximum marginal relevance search, you can specify that as the search type."
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    "retriever = db.as_retriever(search_type=\"mmr\")"
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    "docs = retriever.get_relevant_documents(\"what did he say abotu ketanji brown jackson\")"
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   "source": [
    "You can also specify search kwargs like `k` to use when doing retrieval."
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    "retriever = db.as_retriever(search_kwargs={\"k\": 1})"
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