Milvus is a database that stores, indexes, and manages massive embedding vectors generated by deep neural networks and other machine learning (ML) models.
In the walkthrough, we’ll demo the SelfQueryRetriever with a Milvus vector store.

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Creating a Milvus vectorstore

First we’ll want to create a Milvus VectorStore and seed it with some data. We’ve created a small demo set of documents that contain summaries of movies. I have used the cloud version of Milvus, thus I need uri and token as well. NOTE: The self-query retriever requires you to have lark installed (pip install lark). We also need the langchain_milvus package. 
%pip install -qU lark langchain_milvus
We want to use OpenAIEmbeddings so we have to get the OpenAI API Key. 
import os

OPENAI_API_KEY = "Use your OpenAI key:)"

os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = OPENAI_API_KEY

from langchain_core.documents import Document
from langchain_milvus.vectorstores import Milvus
from langchain_openai import OpenAIEmbeddings

embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()

docs = [
    Document(
        page_content="A bunch of scientists bring back dinosaurs and mayhem breaks loose",
        metadata={"year": 1993, "rating": 7.7, "genre": "action"},
    ),
    Document(
        page_content="Leo DiCaprio gets lost in a dream within a dream within a dream within a ...",
        metadata={"year": 2010, "genre": "thriller", "rating": 8.2},
    ),
    Document(
        page_content="A bunch of normal-sized women are supremely wholesome and some men pine after them",
        metadata={"year": 2019, "rating": 8.3, "genre": "drama"},
    ),
    Document(
        page_content="Three men walk into the Zone, three men walk out of the Zone",
        metadata={"year": 1979, "rating": 9.9, "genre": "science fiction"},
    ),
    Document(
        page_content="A psychologist / detective gets lost in a series of dreams within dreams within dreams and Inception reused the idea",
        metadata={"year": 2006, "genre": "thriller", "rating": 9.0},
    ),
    Document(
        page_content="Toys come alive and have a blast doing so",
        metadata={"year": 1995, "genre": "animated", "rating": 9.3},
    ),
]

vector_store = Milvus.from_documents(
    docs,
    embedding=embeddings,
    connection_args={"uri": "Use your uri:)", "token": "Use your token:)"},
)

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Creating our self-querying retriever

Now we can instantiate our retriever. To do this we’ll need to provide some information upfront about the metadata fields that our documents support and a short description of the document contents. 
from langchain.chains.query_constructor.schema import AttributeInfo
from langchain.retrievers.self_query.base import SelfQueryRetriever
from langchain_openai import OpenAI

metadata_field_info = [
    AttributeInfo(
        name="genre",
        description="The genre of the movie",
        type="string",
    ),
    AttributeInfo(
        name="year",
        description="The year the movie was released",
        type="integer",
    ),
    AttributeInfo(
        name="rating", description="A 1-10 rating for the movie", type="float"
    ),
]
document_content_description = "Brief summary of a movie"
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
retriever = SelfQueryRetriever.from_llm(
    llm, vector_store, document_content_description, metadata_field_info, verbose=True
)

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Testing it out

And now we can try actually using our retriever! 
# This example only specifies a relevant query
retriever.invoke("What are some movies about dinosaurs")

query='dinosaur' filter=None limit=None

[Document(page_content='A bunch of scientists bring back dinosaurs and mayhem breaks loose', metadata={'year': 1993, 'rating': 7.7, 'genre': 'action'}),
 Document(page_content='Toys come alive and have a blast doing so', metadata={'year': 1995, 'rating': 9.3, 'genre': 'animated'}),
 Document(page_content='Three men walk into the Zone, three men walk out of the Zone', metadata={'year': 1979, 'rating': 9.9, 'genre': 'science fiction'}),
 Document(page_content='A psychologist / detective gets lost in a series of dreams within dreams within dreams and Inception reused the idea', metadata={'year': 2006, 'rating': 9.0, 'genre': 'thriller'})]

# This example specifies a filter
retriever.invoke("What are some highly rated movies (above 9)?")

query=' ' filter=Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.GT: 'gt'>, attribute='rating', value=9) limit=None

[Document(page_content='Toys come alive and have a blast doing so', metadata={'year': 1995, 'rating': 9.3, 'genre': 'animated'}),
 Document(page_content='Three men walk into the Zone, three men walk out of the Zone', metadata={'year': 1979, 'rating': 9.9, 'genre': 'science fiction'})]

# This example only specifies a query and a filter
retriever.invoke("I want to watch a movie about toys rated higher than 9")

query='toys' filter=Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.GT: 'gt'>, attribute='rating', value=9) limit=None

[Document(page_content='Toys come alive and have a blast doing so', metadata={'year': 1995, 'rating': 9.3, 'genre': 'animated'}),
 Document(page_content='Three men walk into the Zone, three men walk out of the Zone', metadata={'year': 1979, 'rating': 9.9, 'genre': 'science fiction'})]

# This example specifies a composite filter
retriever.invoke("What's a highly rated (above or equal 9) thriller film?")

query=' ' filter=Operation(operator=<Operator.AND: 'and'>, arguments=[Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.EQ: 'eq'>, attribute='genre', value='thriller'), Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.GTE: 'gte'>, attribute='rating', value=9)]) limit=None

[Document(page_content='A psychologist / detective gets lost in a series of dreams within dreams within dreams and Inception reused the idea', metadata={'year': 2006, 'rating': 9.0, 'genre': 'thriller'})]

# This example specifies a query and composite filter
retriever.invoke(
    "What's a movie after 1990 but before 2005 that's all about dinosaurs, \
    and preferably has a lot of action"
)

query='dinosaur' filter=Operation(operator=<Operator.AND: 'and'>, arguments=[Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.GT: 'gt'>, attribute='year', value=1990), Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.LT: 'lt'>, attribute='year', value=2005), Comparison(comparator=<Comparator.EQ: 'eq'>, attribute='genre', value='action')]) limit=None

[Document(page_content='A bunch of scientists bring back dinosaurs and mayhem breaks loose', metadata={'year': 1993, 'rating': 7.7, 'genre': 'action'})]

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Filter k

We can also use the self query retriever to specify k: the number of documents to fetch. We can do this by passing enable_limit=True to the constructor. 
retriever = SelfQueryRetriever.from_llm(
    llm,
    vector_store,
    document_content_description,
    metadata_field_info,
    verbose=True,
    enable_limit=True,
)

# This example only specifies a relevant query
retriever.invoke("What are two movies about dinosaurs?")

query='dinosaur' filter=None limit=2

[Document(page_content='A bunch of scientists bring back dinosaurs and mayhem breaks loose', metadata={'year': 1993, 'rating': 7.7, 'genre': 'action'}),
 Document(page_content='Toys come alive and have a blast doing so', metadata={'year': 1995, 'rating': 9.3, 'genre': 'animated'})]