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

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