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    Pythonlangchain-corevectorstoresbaseVectorStoreasimilarity_search_by_vector
    Methodā—Since v0.2

    asimilarity_search_by_vector

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    asimilarity_search_by_vector(
      self,
      embedding: list[float],
      k: int = 4,
      **kwargs
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    Any
    =
    {
    }
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    ->
    list
    [
    Document
    ]

    Parameters

    NameTypeDescription
    embedding*list[float]
    kint
    Default:4
    **kwargsAny
    Default:{}

    Async return docs most similar to embedding vector.

    Embedding to look up documents similar to.

    Number of Document objects to return.

    Arguments to pass to the search method.