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  • retrievers
  • SearchType

SearchType#

class langchain_community.retrievers.docarray.SearchType(value)[source]#

Enumerator of the types of search to perform.

similarity = 'similarity'#
mmr = 'mmr'#

Examples using SearchType

  • Docugami

  • How to retrieve using multiple vectors per document

  • Zep Open Source

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  • SearchType
    • similarity
    • mmr

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