langchain/templates/propositional-retrieval/README.md
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Batch update of alt text and title attributes for images in md/mdx files across repo (#15357)
**Description:** Batch update of alt text and title attributes for
images in `md` & `mdx` files across the repo using
[alttexter](https://github.com/jonathanalgar/alttexter)/[alttexter-ghclient](https://github.com/jonathanalgar/alttexter-ghclient)
(built using LangChain/LangSmith).

**Limitation:** cannot update `ipynb` files because of [this
issue](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/pull/15357#issuecomment-1885037250).
Can revisit when Docusaurus is bumped to v3.

I checked all the generated alt texts and titles and didn't find any
technical inaccuracies. That's not to say they're _perfect_, but a lot
better than what's there currently.


[Deployed](https://langchain-819yf1tbk-langchain.vercel.app/docs/modules/model_io/)
image example:


![chrome_yZQ7BF2GTj](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/assets/93204286/43a9a4d4-70fd-41c4-8978-b6240ff63ffa)

You can see LangSmith traces for all the calls out to the LLM in the PRs
merged into this one:

* https://github.com/jonathanalgar/langchain/pull/6
* https://github.com/jonathanalgar/langchain/pull/4
* https://github.com/jonathanalgar/langchain/pull/3

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# propositional-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`.
![Diagram illustrating the multi-vector indexing strategy for information retrieval, showing the process from Wikipedia data through a Proposition-izer to FactoidWiki, and the retrieval of information units for a QA model.](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/raw/master/templates/propositional-retrieval/_images/retriever_diagram.png "Retriever Diagram")
## 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 propositional_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 propositional-retrieval
```
If you want to add this to an existing project, you can just run:
```shell
langchain app add propositional-retrieval
```
And add the following code to your `server.py` file:
```python
from propositional_retrieval import chain
add_routes(app, chain, path="/propositional-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/propositional-retrieval/playground](http://127.0.0.1:8000/propositional-retrieval/playground)
We can access the template from code with:
```python
from langserve.client import RemoteRunnable
runnable = RemoteRunnable("http://localhost:8000/propositional-retrieval")
```