What problem does it solve?
This Skill unit addresses the challenge of building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for AI applications, enabling knowledge-grounded AI and accurate document Q&A systems.
Core Features & Use Cases
- RAG Implementation: Build LLM applications with vector databases and semantic search for grounded responses.
- Vector Databases: Utilize vector databases like Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, and pgvector for efficient retrieval.
- Embeddings: Employ embeddings from models like voyage-3-large, voyage-code-3, text-embedding-3-large, and bge-large-en-v1.5.
- Retrieval Strategies: Implement dense, sparse, hybrid search, multi-query, and HyDE for optimal retrieval.
- Reranking: Enhance retrieval quality with cross-encoders, Cohere Rerank, MMR, and LLM-based reranking.
- Document Chunking: Split documents using Recursive Character Text Splitter, Token Text Splitter, Semantic Chunker, and Markdown Header Splitter.
- Vector Store Configurations: Set up vector stores for Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, and pgvector.
- Retrieval Optimization: Apply metadata filtering, MMR, cross-encoder reranking, Cohere Rerank, and contextual compression.
- Prompt Engineering: Design contextual prompts with citations and structured output for RAG.
- Evaluation Metrics: Assess retrieval precision, recall, answer relevance, faithfulness, and context relevance.
Quick Start
Execute the following Python code to start using the RAG implementation:
from langgraph.graph import StateGraph, START, END
from langchain_anthropic import ChatAnthropic
from langchain_voyageai import VoyageAIEmbeddings
from langchain_pinecone import PineconeVectorStore
from langchain_core.documents import Document
from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate
from langchain_text_splitters import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
from typing import TypedDict, Annotated
class RAGState(TypedDict):
question: str
context: list[Document]
answer: str
# Initialize components and build RAG graph
# ...
# Use
result = await rag_chain.ainvoke({"question": "What are the main features?"})
print(result["answer"])