langchain_google_vertexai.vectorstores.vectorstores.VectorSearchVectorStore¶

class langchain_google_vertexai.vectorstores.vectorstores.VectorSearchVectorStore(searcher: Searcher, document_storage: DocumentStorage, embbedings: Optional[Embeddings] = None)[source]¶

VertexAI VectorStore that handles the search and indexing using Vector Search and stores the documents in Google Cloud Storage.

Constructor. :param searcher: Object in charge of searching and storing the index. :param document_storage: Object in charge of storing and retrieving documents. :param embbedings: Object in charge of transforming text to embbeddings.

Attributes

embbedings

Returns the embeddings object.

embeddings

Access the query embedding object if available.

Methods

__init__(searcher, document_storage[, ...])

Constructor.

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, ...])

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.

delete([ids])

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

from_components(project_id, region, ...[, ...])

Takes the object creation out of the constructor. :param project_id: The GCP project id. :param region: The default location making the API calls. It must have :param the same location as the GCS bucket and must be regional.: :param gcs_bucket_name: The location where the vectors will be stored in :param order for the index to be created.: :param index_id: The id of the created index. :param endpoint_id: The id of the created endpoint. :param credentials_path: (Optional) The path of the Google credentials on :param the local file system.: :param embedding: The Embeddings that will be used for :param embedding the texts.: :param stream_update: Whether to update with streaming or batching. VectorSearch index must be compatible with stream/batch updates. :param kwargs: Additional keyword arguments to pass to VertexAIVectorSearch.__init__().

from_documents(documents, embedding, **kwargs)

Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

from_texts(texts, embedding[, metadatas])

Use from components instead.

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, filter, ...])

Return docs most similar to query. :param query: The string that will be used to search for similar documents. :param k: The amount of neighbors that will be retrieved. :param filter: Optional. A list of Namespaces for filtering the matching results. For example: [Namespace("color", ["red"], []), Namespace("shape", [], ["squared"])] will match datapoints that satisfy "red color" but not include datapoints with "squared shape". Please refer to https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/matching-engine/filtering#json for more detail. :param numeric_filter: Optional. A list of NumericNamespaces for filterning the matching results. Please refer to https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/matching-engine/filtering#json for more detail.

similarity_search_by_vector(embedding[, k])

Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

similarity_search_by_vector_with_score(embedding)

Return docs most similar to the embedding and their cosine distance. :param embedding: Embedding to look up documents similar to. :param k: Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4. :param filter: Optional. A list of Namespaces for filtering the matching results. For example: [Namespace("color", ["red"], []), Namespace("shape", [], ["squared"])] will match datapoints that satisfy "red color" but not include datapoints with "squared shape". Please refer to https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/matching-engine/filtering#json for more detail. :param numeric_filter: Optional. A list of NumericNamespaces for filterning the matching results. Please refer to https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/matching-engine/filtering#json for more detail.

similarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query)

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

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

Return docs most similar to query and their cosine distance from the query. :param query: String query look up documents similar to. :param k: Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4. :param filter: Optional. A list of Namespaces for filtering the matching results. For example: [Namespace("color", ["red"], []), Namespace("shape", [], ["squared"])] will match datapoints that satisfy "red color" but not include datapoints with "squared shape". Please refer to https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/matching-engine/filtering#json for more detail. :param numeric_filter: Optional. A list of NumericNamespaces for filterning the matching results. Please refer to https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/matching-engine/filtering#json for more detail.
Parameters
__init__(searcher: Searcher, document_storage: DocumentStorage, embbedings: Optional[Embeddings] = None) → None¶

Constructor. :param searcher: Object in charge of searching and storing the index. :param document_storage: Object in charge of storing and retrieving documents. :param embbedings: Object in charge of transforming text to embbeddings.

Parameters
Return type

None

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.

  • documents (List[Document]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

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.

Parameters

  • texts (Iterable[str]) –

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[str]

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.

  • documents (List[Document]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of IDs of the added texts.

Return type

List[str]

add_texts(texts: Iterable[str], metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, is_complete_overwrite: bool = False, **kwargs: Any) → List[str]¶

Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore. :param texts: Iterable of strings to add to the vectorstore. :param metadatas: Optional list of metadatas associated with the texts. :param kwargs: vectorstore specific parameters.

Returns

List of ids from adding the texts into the vectorstore.

Parameters

  • texts (Iterable[str]) –

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) –

  • is_complete_overwrite (bool) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[str]

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

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

Parameters

  • ids (Optional[List[str]]) – List of ids to delete.

  • **kwargs (Any) – 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.

Parameters

  • documents (List[Document]) –

  • embedding (Embeddings) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

VST

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

Return VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.

Parameters

  • texts (List[str]) –

  • embedding (Embeddings) –

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

VST

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

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

Parameters

  • query (str) – Text to look up documents similar to.

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

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

  • lambda_mult (float) – 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.

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type

List[Document]

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.

Parameters

  • embedding (List[float]) –

  • k (int) –

  • fetch_k (int) –

  • lambda_mult (float) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

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

  • kwargs (Any) –

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.

Parameters

  • query (str) –

  • search_type (str) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

Return docs most similar to query.

Parameters

  • query (str) –

  • k (int) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

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

Return docs most similar to embedding vector.

Parameters

  • embedding (List[float]) –

  • k (int) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

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 (str) – input text

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

  • **kwargs (Any) –

    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)

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

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

Run similarity search with distance asynchronously.

Parameters

  • args (Any) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

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

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

Parameters

  • ids (Optional[List[str]]) – List of ids to delete.

  • **kwargs (Any) – 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_components(project_id: str, region: str, gcs_bucket_name: str, index_id: str, endpoint_id: str, credentials_path: Optional[str] = None, embedding: Optional[Embeddings] = None, stream_update: bool = False, **kwargs: Any) → VectorSearchVectorStore[source]¶

Takes the object creation out of the constructor. :param project_id: The GCP project id. :param region: The default location making the API calls. It must have :param the same location as the GCS bucket and must be regional.: :param gcs_bucket_name: The location where the vectors will be stored in :param order for the index to be created.: :param index_id: The id of the created index. :param endpoint_id: The id of the created endpoint. :param credentials_path: (Optional) The path of the Google credentials on :param the local file system.: :param embedding: The Embeddings that will be used for :param embedding the texts.: :param stream_update: Whether to update with streaming or batching. VectorSearch

index must be compatible with stream/batch updates.

Parameters

  • kwargs (Any) – Additional keyword arguments to pass to VertexAIVectorSearch.__init__().

  • project_id (str) –

  • region (str) –

  • gcs_bucket_name (str) –

  • index_id (str) –

  • endpoint_id (str) –

  • credentials_path (Optional[str]) –

  • embedding (Optional[Embeddings]) –

  • stream_update (bool) –

Returns

A configured VertexAIVectorSearch with the texts added to the index.

Return type

VectorSearchVectorStore

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

Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

Parameters

  • documents (List[Document]) –

  • embedding (Embeddings) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

VST

classmethod from_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Embeddings, metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, **kwargs: Any) → _BaseVertexAIVectorStore¶

Use from components instead.

Parameters

  • texts (List[str]) –

  • embedding (Embeddings) –

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

_BaseVertexAIVectorStore

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

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

Parameters

  • query (str) – Text to look up documents similar to.

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

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

  • lambda_mult (float) – 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.

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type

List[Document]

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 (List[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.

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

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

  • lambda_mult (float) – 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.

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type

List[Document]

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

Return docs most similar to query using specified search type.

Parameters

  • query (str) –

  • search_type (str) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

List[Document]

Return docs most similar to query. :param query: The string that will be used to search for similar documents. :param k: The amount of neighbors that will be retrieved. :param filter: Optional. A list of Namespaces for filtering the matching results.

For example: [Namespace(“color”, [“red”], []), Namespace(“shape”, [], [“squared”])] will match datapoints that satisfy “red color” but not include datapoints with “squared shape”. Please refer to https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/matching-engine/filtering#json

for more detail.

Parameters
Returns

A list of k matching documents.

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 (List[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.

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

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents most similar to the query vector.

Return type

List[Document]

similarity_search_by_vector_with_score(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, filter: Optional[List[Namespace]] = None, numeric_filter: Optional[List[NumericNamespace]] = None) → List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Return docs most similar to the embedding and their cosine distance. :param embedding: Embedding to look up documents similar to. :param k: Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4. :param filter: Optional. A list of Namespaces for filtering

the matching results. For example: [Namespace(“color”, [“red”], []), Namespace(“shape”, [], [“squared”])] will match datapoints that satisfy “red color” but not include datapoints with “squared shape”. Please refer to https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/matching-engine/filtering#json for more detail.

Parameters
Returns

List of documents most similar to the query text and cosine distance in float for each. Lower score represents more similarity.

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

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 (str) – input text

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

  • **kwargs (Any) –

    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)

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

similarity_search_with_score(query: str, k: int = 4, filter: Optional[List[Namespace]] = None, numeric_filter: Optional[List[NumericNamespace]] = None) → List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Return docs most similar to query and their cosine distance from the query. :param query: String query look up documents similar to. :param k: Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4. :param filter: Optional. A list of Namespaces for filtering

the matching results. For example: [Namespace(“color”, [“red”], []), Namespace(“shape”, [], [“squared”])] will match datapoints that satisfy “red color” but not include datapoints with “squared shape”. Please refer to https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/matching-engine/filtering#json for more detail.

Parameters
Returns

List of documents most similar to the query text and cosine distance in float for each. Lower score represents more similarity.

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

Examples using VectorSearchVectorStore¶