Closed nithinreddyyyyyy closed 4 months ago
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Hey @nithinreddyyyyyy! Great to see you diving into the depths of LangChain again. How's the coding journey treating you lately?
Based on your request, it seems you want to directly embed data from an Excel spreadsheet into a vector store, bypassing the retriever step in the RetrievalQAChain method. This approach aims to ensure that no information is overlooked, similar to the benefits of the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) model.
To achieve this, you would need to replace the CSVLoader with an ExcelLoader. However, the LangChain framework does not currently provide an ExcelLoader. You would need to create a custom ExcelLoader that can load data from an Excel spreadsheet.
Here is a simple example of how you might implement an ExcelLoader:
import pandas as pd
from langchain_community.document_loaders import DocumentLoader
class ExcelLoader(DocumentLoader):
def __init__(self, filepath):
self.filepath = filepath
def load(self):
df = pd.read_excel(self.filepath)
return df.to_dict('records')
Then, you can use this ExcelLoader in place of the CSVLoader:
from langchain.indexes import VectorstoreIndexCreator
from langchain_community.vectorstores import FAISS
from your_module import ExcelLoader # assuming you saved the ExcelLoader in a module named 'your_module'
loader = ExcelLoader("/path/to/your/excel/file.xlsx")
docs = loader.load()
index_creator = VectorstoreIndexCreator(vectorstore_cls=FAISS)
index = index_creator.from_documents(docs)
index.vectorstore.save_local("excel_data")
This will load the data from the Excel spreadsheet, convert it into a list of dictionaries (where each dictionary represents a row in the spreadsheet), and then create a vector store from these documents. The vector store is then saved locally.
Regarding your question about the LangChain framework supporting direct embedding of data into a vector store without using a retriever, the answer is yes. This is evident from the add_texts
method in the FAISS
class. This method allows you to directly add texts to the vector store, which are then embedded and stored. The method returns a list of IDs from adding the texts into the vector store.
Here is the relevant code:
def add_texts(
self,
texts: Iterable[str],
metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None,
ids: Optional[List[str]] = None,
**kwargs: Any,
) -> List[str]:
"""Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.
Args:
texts: Iterable of strings to add to the vectorstore.
metadatas: Optional list of metadatas associated with the texts.
ids: Optional list of unique IDs.
Returns:
List of ids from adding the texts into the vectorstore.
"""
texts = list(texts)
embeddings = self._embed_documents(texts)
return self.__add(texts, embeddings, metadatas=metadatas, ids=ids)
I hope this helps! If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.
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Issue with current documentation:
Let's say I have a spreadsheet with 30 rows and need to find specific answers for each one. Typically, the RetrievalQAChain method relies on a retriever to select the top-k results, which can overlook details in some rows. I'm looking to circumvent the retriever step by directly embedding the data, saving it into a vector store, and then extracting answers using the RetrievalQAChain. This approach aims to replicate the benefits of the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) model without missing out on any information due to the limitations of the retriever. How can this be achieved?
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Let's say I have a spreadsheet with 30 rows and need to find specific answers for each one. Typically, the RetrievalQAChain method relies on a retriever to select the top-k results, which can overlook details in some rows. I'm looking to circumvent the retriever step by directly embedding the data, saving it into a vector store, and then extracting answers using the RetrievalQAChain. This approach aims to replicate the benefits of the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) model without missing out on any information due to the limitations of the retriever. can you help me with the code?