Currently targeting the following usage:
```
from lancedb.rerankers import CrossEncoderReranker
reranker = CrossEncoderReranker()
query = "hello"
res1 = table.search(query, vector_column_name="vector").limit(3)
res2 = table.search(query, vector_column_name="text_vector").limit(3)
res3 = table.search(query, vector_column_name="meta_vector").limit(3)
reranked = reranker.rerank_multivector(
[res1, res2, res3],
deduplicate=True,
query=query # some reranker models need query
)
```
- This implements rerank_multivector function in the base reranker so
that all rerankers that implement rerank_vector will automatically have
multivector reranking support
- Special case for RRF reranker that just uses its existing
rerank_hybrid fcn to multi-vector reranking.
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Co-authored-by: Weston Pace <weston.pace@gmail.com>
It's useful to see the underlying query plan for debugging purposes.
This exposes LanceScanner's `explain_plan` function. Addresses #1288
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Co-authored-by: Will Jones <willjones127@gmail.com>
This allows users to specify URIs like:
```
s3+ddb://my_bucket/path?ddbTableName=myCommitTable
```
and it will support concurrent writes in S3.
* [x] Add dynamodb integration tests
* [x] Add modifications to get it working in Python sync API
* [x] Added section in documentation describing how to configure.
Closes#534
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Co-authored-by: universalmind303 <cory.grinstead@gmail.com>
Added the ability to specify tokenizer_name, when creating a full text
search index using tantivy. This enables the use of language specific
stemming.
Also updated the [guide on full text
search](https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/fts/) with a short section on
choosing tokenizer.
Fixes#1315
- Tried to address some onboarding feedbacks listed in
https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/1224
- Improve visibility of pydantic integration and embedding API. (Based
on onboarding feedback - Many ways of ingesting data, defining schema
but not sure what to use in a specific use-case)
- Add a guide that takes users through testing and improving retriever
performance using built-in utilities like hybrid-search and reranking
- Add some benchmarks for the above
- Add missing cohere docs
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Co-authored-by: Weston Pace <weston.pace@gmail.com>
- add `return` for `__enter__`
The buggy code didn't return the object, therefore it will always return
None within a context manager:
```python
with await lancedb.connect_async("./.lancedb") as db:
# db is always None
```
(BTW, why not to design an async context manager?)
- add a unit test for Async connection context manager
- update return type of `AsyncConnection.open_table` to `AsyncTable`
Although type annotation doesn't affect the functionality, it is helpful
for IDEs.