# EmbeddingsFilter

> **Class** in `langchain_classic`

📖 [View in docs](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-classic/retrievers/document_compressors/embeddings_filter/EmbeddingsFilter)

Embeddings Filter.

Document compressor that uses embeddings to drop documents unrelated to the query.

## Signature

```python
EmbeddingsFilter()
```

## Extends

- `BaseDocumentCompressor`

## Properties

- `embeddings`
- `similarity_fn`
- `k`
- `similarity_threshold`
- `model_config`

## Methods

- [`validate_params()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-classic/retrievers/document_compressors/embeddings_filter/EmbeddingsFilter/validate_params)
- [`compress_documents()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-classic/retrievers/document_compressors/embeddings_filter/EmbeddingsFilter/compress_documents)
- [`acompress_documents()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-classic/retrievers/document_compressors/embeddings_filter/EmbeddingsFilter/acompress_documents)

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[View source on GitHub](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/9f232caa7a8fe1ca042a401942d5d90d54ceb1a6/libs/langchain/langchain_classic/retrievers/document_compressors/embeddings_filter.py#L23)