Retriever

A retriever in LlamaIndex is what is used to fetch Nodes from an index using a query string.

• LlamaCloudRetriever to retrieve nodes from a managed index
• VectorIndexRetriever will fetch the top-k most similar nodes. Ideal for dense retrieval to find most relevant nodes.
• SummaryIndexRetriever will fetch all nodes no matter the query. Ideal when complete context is necessary, e.g. analyzing large datasets.
• SummaryIndexLLMRetriever utilizes an LLM to score and filter nodes based on relevancy to the query.
• KeywordTableLLMRetriever uses an LLM to extract keywords from the query and retrieve relevant nodes based on keyword matches.
• KeywordTableSimpleRetriever uses a basic frequency-based approach to extract keywords and retrieve nodes.
• KeywordTableRAKERetriever uses the RAKE (Rapid Automatic Keyword Extraction) algorithm to extract keywords from the query, focusing on co-occurrence and context for keyword-based retrieval.

const retriever = vectorIndex.asRetriever({
  similarityTopK: 3,
});
 
// Fetch nodes!
const nodesWithScore = await retriever.retrieve({ query: "query string" });