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Troubleshooting Vector Search Setup in Typesense

TLDR Gio encountered issues setting up vector search using Typesense. Jason provided guidance and eventually offered to help via a call.

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Feb 27, 2023 (9 months ago)

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Gio

11:26 AM

Hey guys 👋 I’m glad to be joined here. I’ve spent couple days already and can’t figure out how to build vector search using Typesense… Details in the thread so please help me out.

1. I’ve embedded a plain text using OpenAI.
2. I’ve created a collection by pasting the embedded list of vectors inside FIELD parameter.
3. When I go to search tab it only searches inside document title.
Have in mind I’m a nocode developer (Bubble io to be specific). So I’m trying to set this up correctly to then integrate Typesense to my app.

Guys could you please point me to right direction? I’m really desperate. I need to make this work… Jason

Image 1 for Hey guys :wave: I’m glad to be joined here. I’ve spent couple days already and can’t figure out how to build vector search using Typesense… Details in the thread so please help me out.

1. I’ve embedded a plain text using OpenAI.
2. I’ve created a collection by pasting the embedded list of vectors inside FIELD parameter.
3. When I go to search tab it only searches inside document title.
Have in mind I’m a *nocode developer* (Bubble io to be specific). So I’m trying to set this up correctly to then integrate Typesense to my app.

Guys could you please point me to right direction? I’m really desperate. I need to make this work… <@4L6c7>

Image 2 for Hey guys :wave: I’m glad to be joined here. I’ve spent couple days already and can’t figure out how to build vector search using Typesense… Details in the thread so please help me out.

1. I’ve embedded a plain text using OpenAI.
2. I’ve created a collection by pasting the embedded list of vectors inside FIELD parameter.
3. When I go to search tab it only searches inside document title.
Have in mind I’m a *nocode developer* (Bubble io to be specific). So I’m trying to set this up correctly to then integrate Typesense to my app.

Guys could you please point me to right direction? I’m really desperate. I need to make this work… <@4L6c7>

04:54

Gio

04:54 PM

Kishore Nallan?🙏

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Jason

06:53 PM

For vector search, you also need to generate the vector query to send to Typesense: https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.0/api/vector-search.html#nearest-neighbor-vector-search

06:54

Jason

06:54 PM

So if you were doing semantic search for eg, you would have to first take the query that the user typed in, send it to OpenAI, get the embeddings from their API, then send that to Typesense using the vector_query parameter

Gio

07:06 PM

Jason that’s not an issue. The issue is when I type either a string or vector in Search Input it only searches in Title. Not in a vector.

Image 1 for <@4L6c7> that’s not an issue. The issue is when I type either a string or vector in Search Input it only searches in Title. Not in a vector.

07:07

Gio

07:07 PM

07:07

Gio

07:07 PM

Jason

07:07 PM

That’s because the “Query By” field under “Search Parameters” in your screenshot is set to “title” by default

07:08

Jason

07:08 PM

For regular keyword searches, it will use the fields specified in “query by”

Gio

07:08 PM

Yes. And it doesn’t allow me to switch to vec… I know I’m doing smth wrong…

07:08

Gio

07:08 PM

Jason

07:09 PM

For vector search, you want to use the “Additional Search Parameters” field right at the bottom, and then type this:

vector_query=vec:([0.96826, 0.94, 0.39557, 0.306488], k:100)

07:09

Jason

07:09 PM

(Replace the float array with your vectors)

Gio

07:11 PM

Jason

07:11 PM

Could you clear the search box and try again?

Gio

07:12 PM

It’s the same error.

07:13

Gio

07:13 PM

Jason any chance I could get on a call with you to help me figure this out? I’d even pay you to help me set this up…

Jason

07:16 PM

Sure, let me DM you

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