langchain_community.vectorstores.atlas.AtlasDB¶

class langchain_community.vectorstores.atlas.AtlasDB(name: str, embedding_function: Optional[Embeddings] = None, api_key: Optional[str] = None, description: str = 'A description for your project', is_public: bool = True, reset_project_if_exists: bool = False)[source]¶

Atlas vector store.

Atlas is the Nomic’s neural database and rhizomatic instrument.

To use, you should have the nomic python package installed.

Example

from langchain_community.vectorstores import AtlasDB
from langchain_community.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings

embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
vectorstore = AtlasDB("my_project", embeddings.embed_query)

Initialize the Atlas Client

Parameters
  • name (str) – The name of your project. If the project already exists, it will be loaded.

  • embedding_function (Optional[Embeddings]) – An optional function used for embedding your data. If None, data will be embedded with Nomic’s embed model.

  • api_key (str) – Your nomic API key

  • description (str) – A description for your project.

  • is_public (bool) – Whether your project is publicly accessible. True by default.

  • reset_project_if_exists (bool) – Whether to reset this project if it already exists. Default False. Generally useful during development and testing.

Attributes

embeddings

Access the query embedding object if available.

Methods

__init__(name[, embedding_function, ...])

Initialize the Atlas Client

aadd_documents(documents, **kwargs)

Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

aadd_texts(texts[, metadatas])

Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

add_documents(documents, **kwargs)

Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

add_texts(texts[, metadatas, ids, refresh])

Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

adelete([ids])

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

afrom_documents(documents, embedding, **kwargs)

Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

afrom_texts(texts, embedding[, metadatas])

Return VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.

amax_marginal_relevance_search(query[, k, ...])

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

amax_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(...)

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

as_retriever(**kwargs)

Return VectorStoreRetriever initialized from this VectorStore.

asearch(query, search_type, **kwargs)

Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.

asimilarity_search(query[, k])

Return docs most similar to query.

asimilarity_search_by_vector(embedding[, k])

Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

asimilarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query)

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1], asynchronously.

asimilarity_search_with_score(*args, **kwargs)

Run similarity search with distance asynchronously.

create_index(**kwargs)

Creates an index in your project.

delete([ids])

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

from_documents(documents[, embedding, ids, ...])

Create an AtlasDB vectorstore from a list of documents.

from_texts(texts[, embedding, metadatas, ...])

Create an AtlasDB vectorstore from a raw documents.

max_marginal_relevance_search(query[, k, ...])

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

max_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(...)

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

search(query, search_type, **kwargs)

Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.

similarity_search(query[, k])

Run similarity search with AtlasDB

similarity_search_by_vector(embedding[, k])

Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

similarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query)

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].

similarity_search_with_score(*args, **kwargs)

Run similarity search with distance.

__init__(name: str, embedding_function: Optional[Embeddings] = None, api_key: Optional[str] = None, description: str = 'A description for your project', is_public: bool = True, reset_project_if_exists: bool = False) None[source]¶

Initialize the Atlas Client

Parameters
  • name (str) – The name of your project. If the project already exists, it will be loaded.

  • embedding_function (Optional[Embeddings]) – An optional function used for embedding your data. If None, data will be embedded with Nomic’s embed model.

  • api_key (str) – Your nomic API key

  • description (str) – A description for your project.

  • is_public (bool) – Whether your project is publicly accessible. True by default.

  • reset_project_if_exists (bool) – Whether to reset this project if it already exists. Default False. Generally useful during development and testing.

async aadd_documents(documents: List[Document], **kwargs: Any) List[str]¶

Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters

(List[Document] (documents) – Documents to add to the vectorstore.

Returns

List of IDs of the added texts.

Return type

List[str]

async aadd_texts(texts: Iterable[str], metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, **kwargs: Any) List[str]¶

Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

add_documents(documents: List[Document], **kwargs: Any) List[str]¶

Run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters

(List[Document] (documents) – Documents to add to the vectorstore.

Returns

List of IDs of the added texts.

Return type

List[str]

add_texts(texts: Iterable[str], metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, refresh: bool = True, **kwargs: Any) List[str][source]¶

Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters
  • texts (Iterable[str]) – Texts to add to the vectorstore.

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]], optional) – Optional list of metadatas.

  • ids (Optional[List[str]]) – An optional list of ids.

  • refresh (bool) – Whether or not to refresh indices with the updated data. Default True.

Returns

List of IDs of the added texts.

Return type

List[str]

async adelete(ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) Optional[bool]¶

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

Parameters
  • ids – List of ids to delete.

  • **kwargs – Other keyword arguments that subclasses might use.

Returns

True if deletion is successful, False otherwise, None if not implemented.

Return type

Optional[bool]

async classmethod afrom_documents(documents: List[Document], embedding: Embeddings, **kwargs: Any) VST¶

Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

async classmethod afrom_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Embeddings, metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, **kwargs: Any) VST¶

Return VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

async amax_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) List[Document]¶

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

as_retriever(**kwargs: Any) VectorStoreRetriever¶

Return VectorStoreRetriever initialized from this VectorStore.

Parameters
  • search_type (Optional[str]) – Defines the type of search that the Retriever should perform. Can be “similarity” (default), “mmr”, or “similarity_score_threshold”.

  • search_kwargs (Optional[Dict]) –

    Keyword arguments to pass to the search function. Can include things like:

    k: Amount of documents to return (Default: 4) score_threshold: Minimum relevance threshold

    for similarity_score_threshold

    fetch_k: Amount of documents to pass to MMR algorithm (Default: 20) lambda_mult: Diversity of results returned by MMR;

    1 for minimum diversity and 0 for maximum. (Default: 0.5)

    filter: Filter by document metadata

Returns

Retriever class for VectorStore.

Return type

VectorStoreRetriever

Examples:

# Retrieve more documents with higher diversity
# Useful if your dataset has many similar documents
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="mmr",
    search_kwargs={'k': 6, 'lambda_mult': 0.25}
)

# Fetch more documents for the MMR algorithm to consider
# But only return the top 5
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="mmr",
    search_kwargs={'k': 5, 'fetch_k': 50}
)

# Only retrieve documents that have a relevance score
# Above a certain threshold
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="similarity_score_threshold",
    search_kwargs={'score_threshold': 0.8}
)

# Only get the single most similar document from the dataset
docsearch.as_retriever(search_kwargs={'k': 1})

# Use a filter to only retrieve documents from a specific paper
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_kwargs={'filter': {'paper_title':'GPT-4 Technical Report'}}
)
async asearch(query: str, search_type: str, **kwargs: Any) List[Document]¶

Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.

Return docs most similar to query.

async asimilarity_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) List[Document]¶

Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

async asimilarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1], asynchronously.

0 is dissimilar, 1 is most similar.

Parameters
  • query – input text

  • k – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • **kwargs –

    kwargs to be passed to similarity search. Should include: score_threshold: Optional, a floating point value between 0 to 1 to

    filter the resulting set of retrieved docs

Returns

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score)

async asimilarity_search_with_score(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Run similarity search with distance asynchronously.

create_index(**kwargs: Any) Any[source]¶

Creates an index in your project.

See https://docs.nomic.ai/atlas_api.html#nomic.project.AtlasProject.create_index for full detail.

delete(ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) Optional[bool]¶

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

Parameters
  • ids – List of ids to delete.

  • **kwargs – Other keyword arguments that subclasses might use.

Returns

True if deletion is successful, False otherwise, None if not implemented.

Return type

Optional[bool]

classmethod from_documents(documents: List[Document], embedding: Optional[Embeddings] = None, ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, name: Optional[str] = None, api_key: Optional[str] = None, persist_directory: Optional[str] = None, description: str = 'A description for your project', is_public: bool = True, reset_project_if_exists: bool = False, index_kwargs: Optional[dict] = None, **kwargs: Any) AtlasDB[source]¶

Create an AtlasDB vectorstore from a list of documents.

Parameters
  • name (str) – Name of the collection to create.

  • api_key (str) – Your nomic API key,

  • documents (List[Document]) – List of documents to add to the vectorstore.

  • embedding (Optional[Embeddings]) – Embedding function. Defaults to None.

  • ids (Optional[List[str]]) – Optional list of document IDs. If None, ids will be auto created

  • description (str) – A description for your project.

  • is_public (bool) – Whether your project is publicly accessible. True by default.

  • reset_project_if_exists (bool) – Whether to reset this project if it already exists. Default False. Generally useful during development and testing.

  • index_kwargs (Optional[dict]) – Dict of kwargs for index creation. See https://docs.nomic.ai/atlas_api.html

Returns

Nomic’s neural database and finest rhizomatic instrument

Return type

AtlasDB

classmethod from_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Optional[Embeddings] = None, metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, name: Optional[str] = None, api_key: Optional[str] = None, description: str = 'A description for your project', is_public: bool = True, reset_project_if_exists: bool = False, index_kwargs: Optional[dict] = None, **kwargs: Any) AtlasDB[source]¶

Create an AtlasDB vectorstore from a raw documents.

Parameters
  • texts (List[str]) – The list of texts to ingest.

  • name (str) – Name of the project to create.

  • api_key (str) – Your nomic API key,

  • embedding (Optional[Embeddings]) – Embedding function. Defaults to None.

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) – List of metadatas. Defaults to None.

  • ids (Optional[List[str]]) – Optional list of document IDs. If None, ids will be auto created

  • description (str) – A description for your project.

  • is_public (bool) – Whether your project is publicly accessible. True by default.

  • reset_project_if_exists (bool) – Whether to reset this project if it already exists. Default False. Generally useful during development and testing.

  • index_kwargs (Optional[dict]) – Dict of kwargs for index creation. See https://docs.nomic.ai/atlas_api.html

Returns

Nomic’s neural database and finest rhizomatic instrument

Return type

AtlasDB

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters
  • query – Text to look up documents similar to.

  • k – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • fetch_k – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm.

  • lambda_mult – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

max_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) List[Document]¶

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters
  • embedding – Embedding to look up documents similar to.

  • k – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • fetch_k – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm.

  • lambda_mult – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

search(query: str, search_type: str, **kwargs: Any) List[Document]¶

Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.

Run similarity search with AtlasDB

Parameters
  • query (str) – Query text to search for.

  • k (int) – Number of results to return. Defaults to 4.

Returns

List of documents most similar to the query text.

Return type

List[Document]

similarity_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) List[Document]¶

Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

Parameters
  • embedding – Embedding to look up documents similar to.

  • k – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

Returns

List of Documents most similar to the query vector.

similarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].

0 is dissimilar, 1 is most similar.

Parameters
  • query – input text

  • k – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • **kwargs –

    kwargs to be passed to similarity search. Should include: score_threshold: Optional, a floating point value between 0 to 1 to

    filter the resulting set of retrieved docs

Returns

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score)

similarity_search_with_score(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Run similarity search with distance.

Examples using AtlasDB¶