retrievers#
Retriever class returns Documents given a text query.
It is more general than a vector store. A retriever does not need to be able to store documents, only to return (or retrieve) it. Vector stores can be used as the backbone of a retriever, but there are other types of retrievers as well.
Class hierarchy:
BaseRetriever --> <name>Retriever # Examples: ArxivRetriever, MergerRetriever
Main helpers:
RetrieverInput, RetrieverOutput, RetrieverLike, RetrieverOutputLike,
Document, Serializable, Callbacks,
CallbackManagerForRetrieverRun, AsyncCallbackManagerForRetrieverRun
Classes
Abstract base class for a Document retrieval system. |