diff --git a/langchain/retrievers/tfidf.py b/langchain/retrievers/tfidf.py
index 2eef3cdd..2fa8a58c 100644
--- a/langchain/retrievers/tfidf.py
+++ b/langchain/retrievers/tfidf.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Largely based on
 https://github.com/asvskartheek/Text-Retrieval/blob/master/TF-IDF%20Search%20Engine%20(SKLEARN).ipynb"""
-from typing import Any, List
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
 
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 
@@ -21,10 +21,16 @@ class TFIDFRetriever(BaseRetriever, BaseModel):
         arbitrary_types_allowed = True
 
     @classmethod
-    def from_texts(cls, texts: List[str], **kwargs: Any) -> "TFIDFRetriever":
+    def from_texts(
+        cls,
+        texts: List[str],
+        tfidf_params: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
+        **kwargs: Any
+    ) -> "TFIDFRetriever":
         from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
 
-        vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer()
+        tfidf_params = tfidf_params or {}
+        vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer(**tfidf_params)
         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)
diff --git a/tests/integration_tests/retrievers/test_tfidf.py b/tests/integration_tests/retrievers/test_tfidf.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..54dae33a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration_tests/retrievers/test_tfidf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from langchain.retrievers.tfidf import TFIDFRetriever
+
+
+def test_from_texts() -> None:
+    input_texts = ["I have a pen.", "Do you have a pen?", "I have a bag."]
+    tfidf_retriever = TFIDFRetriever.from_texts(texts=input_texts)
+    assert len(tfidf_retriever.docs) == 3
+    assert tfidf_retriever.tfidf_array.toarray().shape == (3, 5)
+
+
+def test_from_texts_with_tfidf_params() -> None:
+    input_texts = ["I have a pen.", "Do you have a pen?", "I have a bag."]
+    tfidf_retriever = TFIDFRetriever.from_texts(
+        texts=input_texts, tfidf_params={"min_df": 2}
+    )
+    # should count only multiple words (have, pan)
+    assert tfidf_retriever.tfidf_array.toarray().shape == (3, 2)