Add a method that exposes a similarity search with corresponding
normalized similarity scores. Implement only for FAISS now.
### Motivation:
Some memory definitions combine `relevance` with other scores, like
recency , importance, etc.
While many (but not all) of the `VectorStore`'s expose a
`similarity_search_with_score` method, they don't all interpret the
units of that score (depends on the distance metric and whether or not
the the embeddings are normalized).
This PR proposes a `similarity_search_with_normalized_similarities`
method that lets consumers of the vector store not have to worry about
the metric and embedding scale.
*Most providers default to euclidean distance, with Pinecone being one
exception (defaults to cosine _similarity_).*
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Co-authored-by: Harrison Chase <hw.chase.17@gmail.com>
Same as similarity_search, allows child classes to add vector
store-specific args (this was technically already happening in couple
places but now typing is correct).
Avoid using placeholder methods that only perform a `cast()`
operation because the typing would otherwise be inferred to be the
parent `VectorStore` class. This is unnecessary with TypeVar's.
Alternate implementation to PR #960 Again - only FAISS is implemented.
If accepted can add this to other vectorstores or leave as
NotImplemented? Suggestions welcome...
Also updated docs, and noticed an issue with the add_texts method on
VectorStores that I had missed before -- the metadatas arg should be
required to match the classmethod which initializes the VectorStores
(the add_example methods break otherwise in the ExampleSelectors)
this will break atm but wanted to get thoughts on implementation.
1. should add() be on docstore interface?
2. should InMemoryDocstore change to take a list of documents as init?
(makes this slightly easier to implement in FAISS -- if we think it is
less clean then could expose a method to get the number of documents
currently in the dict, and perform the logic of creating the necessary
dictionary in the FAISS.add_texts method.
Co-authored-by: Harrison Chase <hw.chase.17@gmail.com>
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