) -> List[Document]:
        """Return docs most similar to embedding vector."""
        # This is a temporary workaround to make the similarity search
        # asynchronous. The proper solution is to make the similarity search
        # asynchronous in the vector store implementations.
        func = partial(self.similarity_search_by_vector, embedding, k=k, **kwargs)
        return await asyncio.get_event_loop().run_in_executor(None, func)
[docs]    def max_marginal_relevance_search(
        self,
        query: str,
        k: int = 4,
        fetch_k: int = 20,
        lambda_mult: float = 0.5,
        **kwargs: Any,
    ) -> List[Document]:
        """Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.
        Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity
        among selected documents.
        Args:
            query: Text to look up documents similar to.
            k: Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.
            fetch_k: Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm.
            lambda_mult: Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree
                        of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding
                        to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity.
                        Defaults to 0.5.
        Returns:
            List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.
        """
        raise NotImplementedError
[docs]    async def amax_marginal_relevance_search(
        self,
        query: str,
        k: int = 4,
        fetch_k: int = 20,
        lambda_mult: float = 0.5,
        **kwargs: Any,
    ) -> List[Document]:
        """Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance."""