Ollama Embeddings With Langchain
Author: Gwangwon Jung
Peer Review : Teddy Lee, ro__o_jun, BokyungisaGod, Youngjun cho
Proofread : Youngjun cho
This is a part of LangChain Open Tutorial
Overview
This tutorial covers how to perform Text Embedding
using Ollama
and Langchain
.
Ollama
is an open-source project that allows you to easily serve models locally.
In this tutorial, we will create a simple example to measure the similarity between Documents
and an input Query
using Ollama
and Langchain
.

Table of Contents
References
Environment Setup
Set up the environment. You may refer to Environment Setup for more details.
[Note]
langchain-opentutorial
is a package that provides a set of easy-to-use environment setup, useful functions and utilities for tutorials.You can checkout the
langchain-opentutorial
for more details.
%%capture --no-stderr
%pip install langchain-opentutorial
# Install required packages
from langchain_opentutorial import package
package.install(
[
"langchain_community",
"langchain-ollama",
"scikit-learn",
],
verbose=False,
upgrade=False,
)
Ollama Install and Model Serving
Ollama is an open-source project that makes it easy to run large language models(LLM) in a local environment. This tool allows users to download and run various LLMs with simple commands, enabling developers to experiment with and use AI models directly on their computers. Ollama is a tool with a user-friendly interface and fast performance, making AI development and experimentation more accessible and efficient.
Ollama User Guide
1. Install Ollama
2. Verify Ollama Installation
Identify Supported Embedding Models and Serving Model
👇 You can find the model in the hyperlink below.
Ollama Model Pull Guide
1. Search Models

2. Pull a Model

3. Verify the Model

Model Load and Embedding
Now that you have downloaded the model, let's load the model you downloaded and proceed with the embedding.
First, define Query
and Documents
# Query
q = "Please tell me more about LangChain."
# Documents for Text Embedding
docs = [
"Hi, nice to meet you.",
"LangChain simplifies the process of building applications with large language models.",
"The LangChain English tutorial is structured based on LangChain's official documentation, cookbook, and various practical examples to help users utilize LangChain more easily and effectively.",
"LangChain simplifies the process of building applications with large-scale language models.",
"Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is an effective technique for improving AI responses.",
]
Next, let's load the embedding model downloaded with Ollama
using Langchain
.
The OllamaEmbeddings
class in langchain_community/embeddings.py
will be removed in langchain-community
version 1.0.0.
# Load Embedding Model : Legacy
from langchain_community.embeddings import OllamaEmbeddings
# Serving and load the desired embedding model.
ollama_embeddings = OllamaEmbeddings(
model="nomic-embed-text", # model=<model-name>
)
So, in this tutorial, we used the OllamaEmbeddings
class from langchain-ollama
.
# Load Embedding Model : Latest
from langchain_ollama import OllamaEmbeddings
# Serving and load the desired embedding model.
ollama_embeddings = OllamaEmbeddings(
model="nomic-embed-text", # model=<model-name>
)
Let's use the loaded model to embed the Query
and Documents
.
# Embedding Query
embedded_query = ollama_embeddings.embed_query(q)
# Embedding Documents
embedded_docs = ollama_embeddings.embed_documents(docs)
print(f"Embedding Dimension Output: {len(embedded_query)}")
Embedding Dimension Output: 768
The similarity calculation results
Let's use the vector values of the query and documents obtained earlier to calculate the similarity.
In this tutorial, we will use cosine similarity to calculate the similarity between the Query
and the Documents
.
Using the Sklearn
library in Python, you can easily calculate cosine similarity.
from sklearn.metrics.pairwise import cosine_similarity
# Calculate Cosine Similarity
similarity = cosine_similarity([embedded_query], embedded_docs)
# Sorting by Similarity in descending order
sorted_idx = similarity.argsort()[0][::-1]
# Output Result
print("[Query] Tell me about LangChain.\n====================================")
for i, idx in enumerate(sorted_idx):
print(f"[{i}] similarity: {similarity[0][idx]:.3f} | {docs[idx]}")
print()
[Query] Tell me about LangChain.
====================================
[0] similarity: 0.775 | The LangChain English tutorial is structured based on LangChain's official documentation, cookbook, and various practical examples to help users utilize LangChain more easily and effectively.
[1] similarity: 0.748 | LangChain simplifies the process of building applications with large language models.
[2] similarity: 0.745 | LangChain simplifies the process of building applications with large-scale language models.
[3] similarity: 0.399 | Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is an effective technique for improving AI responses.
[4] similarity: 0.398 | Hi, nice to meet you.
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