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.
---------
Co-authored-by: Weston Pace <weston.pace@gmail.com>
Building with Node 16 produced this error:
```
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall chmod
npm ERR! path /io/nodejs/node_modules/apache-arrow-15/bin/arrow2csv.cjs
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, chmod '/io/nodejs/node_modules/apache-arrow-15/bin/arrow2csv.cjs'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent
```
[CI
Failure](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/actions/runs/10117131772/job/27981475770).
This looks like it is https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43341
Upgrading to Node 18 makes this goes away. Since Node 18 requires glibc
>= 2_28, we had to upgrade the manylinux version we are using. This is
fine since we already state a minimum Node version of 18.
This also upgrades the openssl version we bundle, as well as
consolidates the build files.
### Fix markdown table rendering issue
This PR adds a missing whitespace before a markdown table in the
documentation. This issue causes the table to not render properly in
mkdocs, while it does render properly in GitHub's markdown viewer.
#### Change Details:
- Added a single line of whitespace before the markdown table to ensure
proper rendering in mkdocs.
#### Note:
- I wasn't able to test this fix in the mkdocs environment, but it
should be safe as it only involves adding whitespace which won't break
anything.
---
Cohere supports following input types:
| Input Type | Description |
|-------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| "`search_document`" | Used for embeddings stored in a vector|
| | database for search use-cases. |
| "`search_query`" | Used for embeddings of search queries |
| | run against a vector DB |
| "`semantic_similarity`" | Specifies the given text will be used |
| | for Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) |
| "`classification`" | Used for embeddings passed through a |
| | text classifier. |
| "`clustering`" | Used for the embeddings run through a |
| | clustering algorithm |
Usage Example:
Correct the timeout argument to `connect` in @lancedb/lancedb node SDK.
`RemoteConnectionOptions` specified two fields `connectionTimeout` and
`readTimeout`, probably to be consistent with the python SDK, but only
`connectionTimeout` was being used and it was passed to axios in such a
way that this covered the enture remote request (connect + read). This
change adds a single parameter `timeout` which makes the args to
`connect` consistent with the legacy vectordb sdk.
BREAKING CHANGE: This is a breaking change b/c users who would have
previously been passing `connectionTimeout` will now be expected to pass
`timeout`.
I noticed that setting up a simple project with
[Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/) failed because unlike others [npm, pnpm,
bun], yarn does not automatically resolve peer dependencies, so i added
a quick note about it in the installation guide.
previously if you tried to install both vectordb and @lancedb/lancedb,
you would get a peer dependency issue due to `vectordb` requiring
`14.0.2` and `@lancedb/lancedb` requiring `15.0.0`. now
`@lancedb/lancedb` should just work with any arrow version 13-17
* Labelled jobs `vectordb` and `lancedb` so it's clear which package
they are for
* Fix permission issue in aarch64 Linux `vectordb` build that has been
blocking release for two months.
* Added Slack notifications for failure of these publish jobs.
