langchain_community.vectorstores.weaviate
.Weaviate¶
- class langchain_community.vectorstores.weaviate.Weaviate(client: ~typing.Any, index_name: str, text_key: str, embedding: ~typing.Optional[~langchain_core.embeddings.Embeddings] = None, attributes: ~typing.Optional[~typing.List[str]] = None, relevance_score_fn: ~typing.Optional[~typing.Callable[[float], float]] = <function _default_score_normalizer>, by_text: bool = True)[source]¶
Weaviate vector store.
To use, you should have the
weaviate-client
python package installed.Example
import weaviate from langchain_community.vectorstores import Weaviate client = weaviate.Client(url=os.environ["WEAVIATE_URL"], ...) weaviate = Weaviate(client, index_name, text_key)
Initialize with Weaviate client.
Attributes
embeddings
Access the query embedding object if available.
Methods
__init__
(client, index_name, text_key[, ...])Initialize with Weaviate 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])Upload texts with metadata (properties) to Weaviate.
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.
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.
Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1], asynchronously.
asimilarity_search_with_score
(*args, **kwargs)Run similarity search with distance asynchronously.
delete
([ids])Delete by vector IDs.
from_documents
(documents, embedding, **kwargs)Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.
from_texts
(texts, embedding[, metadatas, ...])Construct Weaviate wrapper from raw documents.
max_marginal_relevance_search
(query[, k, ...])Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
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])Return docs most similar to query.
similarity_search_by_text
(query[, k])Return docs most similar to query.
similarity_search_by_vector
(embedding[, k])Look up similar documents by embedding vector in Weaviate.
Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].
similarity_search_with_score
(query[, k])Return list of documents most similar to the query text and cosine distance in float for each.
- __init__(client: ~typing.Any, index_name: str, text_key: str, embedding: ~typing.Optional[~langchain_core.embeddings.Embeddings] = None, attributes: ~typing.Optional[~typing.List[str]] = None, relevance_score_fn: ~typing.Optional[~typing.Callable[[float], float]] = <function _default_score_normalizer>, by_text: bool = True)[source]¶
Initialize with Weaviate client.
- 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, **kwargs: Any) List[str] [source]¶
Upload texts with metadata (properties) to Weaviate.
- 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.
- async amax_marginal_relevance_search(query: str, k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) List[Document] ¶
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
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.
- async asimilarity_search(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) List[Document] ¶
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.
- delete(ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) None [source]¶
Delete by vector IDs.
- Parameters
ids – List of ids to delete.
- classmethod from_documents(documents: List[Document], embedding: Embeddings, **kwargs: Any) VST ¶
Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.
- classmethod from_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Embeddings, metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, *, client: Optional[weaviate.Client] = None, weaviate_url: Optional[str] = None, weaviate_api_key: Optional[str] = None, batch_size: Optional[int] = None, index_name: Optional[str] = None, text_key: str = 'text', by_text: bool = False, relevance_score_fn: Optional[Callable[[float], float]] = <function _default_score_normalizer>, **kwargs: Any) Weaviate [source]¶
Construct Weaviate wrapper from raw documents.
- This is a user-friendly interface that:
Embeds documents.
Creates a new index for the embeddings in the Weaviate instance.
Adds the documents to the newly created Weaviate index.
This is intended to be a quick way to get started.
- Parameters
texts – Texts to add to vector store.
embedding – Text embedding model to use.
metadatas – Metadata associated with each text.
client – weaviate.Client to use.
weaviate_url – The Weaviate URL. If using Weaviate Cloud Services get it from the
Details
tab. Can be passed in as a named param or by setting the environment variableWEAVIATE_URL
. Should not be specified if client is provided.weaviate_api_key – The Weaviate API key. If enabled and using Weaviate Cloud Services, get it from
Details
tab. Can be passed in as a named param or by setting the environment variableWEAVIATE_API_KEY
. Should not be specified if client is provided.batch_size – Size of batch operations.
index_name – Index name.
text_key – Key to use for uploading/retrieving text to/from vectorstore.
by_text – Whether to search by text or by embedding.
relevance_score_fn – Function for converting whatever distance function the vector store uses to a relevance score, which is a normalized similarity score (0 means dissimilar, 1 means similar).
**kwargs – Additional named parameters to pass to
Weaviate.__init__()
.
Example
from langchain_community.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings from langchain_community.vectorstores import Weaviate embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings() weaviate = Weaviate.from_texts( texts, embeddings, weaviate_url="http://localhost:8080" )
- max_marginal_relevance_search(query: str, k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) List[Document] [source]¶
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] [source]¶
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.
- similarity_search(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) List[Document] [source]¶
Return docs most similar to query.
- Parameters
query – Text to look up documents similar to.
k – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
- Returns
List of Documents most similar to the query.
- similarity_search_by_text(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) List[Document] [source]¶
Return docs most similar to query.
- Parameters
query – Text to look up documents similar to.
k – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
- Returns
List of Documents most similar to the query.
- similarity_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) List[Document] [source]¶
Look up similar documents by embedding vector in Weaviate.
- 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)