Supercharge app intelligence using gen AI with Amazon DocumentDB (DAT320)

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Introduction and Overview

• Presentation is part of re:Invent 2024
• Focused on "Supercharging App Intelligence using Gen with Amazon DocumentDB"
• Covers vector search, access patterns, vector search on DocumentDB, and best practices

Vector Search Fundamentals

• Vector search is used for more intuitive, smart, and context-relevant searching
• Involves tokenizing data into elements (words, paragraphs, sentences, documents) and passing them through a large language model to create vector embeddings
• Vector embeddings represent the data in a multi-dimensional space where similar items are closer together
• Allows finding semantically similar results through mathematical distance calculations

Amazon DocumentDB for Vector Search

• DocumentDB supports two indexing methods for vector search: IVF (Inverted File) Flat and HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World)
• IVF Flat:
  • Splits documents into lists with centroids
  • Faster indexing but requires data before index creation
  • Performs better with static data
• HNSW:
  • Organizes vectors into a graph structure
  • Slower indexing but can index first, then add data
  • Better for dynamic data with updates and deletes

Best Practices

• Vector embeddings consume space, so consider the optimal number of dimensions
• For HNSW indexes:
  • Start with "balanced" default values for M and EF Construction
  • Adjust M and EF Search based on performance and recall needs
• For IVF Flat indexes:
  • Set the number of Lists based on the number of documents
  • Adjust the number of Probes to balance performance and recall

Demonstration and Resources

• Demonstrated a Python notebook implementing a DocumentDB chatbot using a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture
• Highlighted the many variables to consider when building generative AI solutions, such as language models, chunking, and index parameters
• Provided resources:
  • GitHub repository with sample notebooks
  • Data Modeling eBook
  • DocumentDB skill builder courses