Voyage AI Reranker in LanceDB

Voyage AI provides cutting-edge embedding and rerankers.

This reranker uses the VoyageAI API to rerank the search results. You can use this reranker by passing VoyageAIReranker() to the rerank() method. Note that you'll either need to set the VOYAGE_API_KEY environment variable or pass the api_key argument to use this reranker.

Note

Supported Query Types: Hybrid, Vector, FTS

import numpy
import lancedb
from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
from lancedb.rerankers import VoyageAIReranker

embedder = get_registry().get("sentence-transformers").create()
db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")

class Schema(LanceModel):
    text: str = embedder.SourceField()
    vector: Vector(embedder.ndims()) = embedder.VectorField()

data = [
    {"text": "hello world"},
    {"text": "goodbye world"}
    ]
tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=Schema, mode="overwrite")
tbl.add(data)
reranker = VoyageAIReranker(model_name="rerank-2")

# Run vector search with a reranker
result = tbl.search("hello").rerank(reranker=reranker).to_list() 

# Run FTS search with a reranker
result = tbl.search("hello", query_type="fts").rerank(reranker=reranker).to_list()

# Run hybrid search with a reranker
tbl.create_fts_index("text", replace=True)
result = tbl.search("hello", query_type="hybrid").rerank(reranker=reranker).to_list()

Accepted Arguments

Argument	Type	Default	Description
`model_name`	`str`	`None`	The name of the reranker model to use. Available models are: rerank-2, rerank-2-lite
`column`	`str`	`"text"`	The name of the column to use as input to the cross encoder model.
`top_n`	`str`	`None`	The number of results to return. If None, will return all results.
`api_key`	`str`	`None`	The API key for the Voyage AI API. If not provided, the `VOYAGE_API_KEY` environment variable is used.
`return_score`	str	`"relevance"`	Options are "relevance" or "all". The type of score to return. If "relevance", will return only the `_relevance_score. If "all" is supported, will return relevance score along with the vector and/or fts scores depending on query type
`truncation`	`bool`	`None`	Whether to truncate the input to satisfy the "context length limit" on the query and the documents.

Supported Scores for each query type

You can specify the type of scores you want the reranker to return. The following are the supported scores for each query type:

Hybrid Search

`return_score`	Status	Description
`relevance`	✅ Supported	Returns only have the `_relevance_score` column
`all`	❌ Not Supported	Returns have vector(`_distance`) and FTS(`score`) along with Hybrid Search score(`_relevance_score`)

Vector Search

`return_score`	Status	Description
`relevance`	✅ Supported	Returns only have the `_relevance_score` column
`all`	✅ Supported	Returns have vector(`_distance`) along with Hybrid Search score(`_relevance_score`)

FTS Search

`return_score`	Status	Description
`relevance`	✅ Supported	Returns only have the `_relevance_score` column
`all`	✅ Supported	Returns have FTS(`score`) along with Hybrid Search score(`_relevance_score`)