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Recommend point groups

Look for the points which are closer to stored positive examples and at the same time further to negative examples, grouped by a given payload field.

post/collections/{collection_name}/points/recommend/groups

Path parameters

collection_namestring required

Name of the collection to search in

Query parameters

integer
OR
'majority' | 'quorum' | 'all'
  • majority - send N/2+1 random request and return points, which present on all of them

  • quorum - send requests to all nodes and return points which present on majority of nodes

  • all - send requests to all nodes and return points which present on all nodes

Define read consistency guarantees for the operation

timeoutinteger

If set, overrides global timeout for this request. Unit is seconds.

Request body

score_thresholdnumber float nullable

Define a minimal score threshold for the result. If defined, less similar results will not be returned. Score of the returned result might be higher or smaller than the threshold depending on the Distance function used. E.g. for cosine similarity only higher scores will be returned.

group_bystring required

Payload field to group by, must be a string or number field. If the field contains more than 1 value, all values will be used for grouping. One point can be in multiple groups.

group_sizeinteger required

Maximum amount of points to return per group

limitinteger required

Maximum amount of groups to return

Response

successful operation

timenumber float

Time spent to process this request

statusstring

Example response

{
  "time": 0.002,
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {
    "groups": [
      {
        "hits": [
          {
            "id": 42,
            "version": 3,
            "score": 0.75,
            "payload": {
              "city": "London",
              "color": "green"
            },
            "vector": [
              0.875,
              0.140625,
              0.897599995136261
            ],
            "shard_key": "region_1",
            "order_value": 42
          }
        ],
        "lookup": {
          "id": 42,
          "payload": {
            "city": "London",
            "color": "green"
          },
          "vector": [
            0.875,
            0.140625,
            0.897599995136261
          ],
          "shard_key": "region_1",
          "order_value": 42
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}