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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