HybridRegexSearch module
HybridRegexSearch
Bases: Module
Reciprocal-Rank-Fusion of vector similarity + regex matching.
LM-driven wrapper around
KnowledgeBase.hybrid_regex_search. The vector side's text
comes from the input's similarity_search field; the regex
side's patterns come from regex_patterns. When
regex_patterns is empty the adapter falls back to plain
vector similarity.
Vectors capture semantic similarity; regex captures exact textual shape. The two signals are orthogonal — give the same intent in both forms and the fused ranking surfaces rows that match on either axis. Regex uses RE2 (DuckDB's engine), so patterns are linear-time and not vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking.
Single-table only: to retrieve from multiple tables, compose
several HybridRegexSearch modules in the program DAG and
merge their outputs explicitly.
Example:
import synalinks
import asyncio
class LogLine(synalinks.DataModel):
id: str = synalinks.Field(description="Log id")
text: str = synalinks.Field(description="Log line")
class Query(synalinks.DataModel):
similarity_search: list[str] = synalinks.Field(
description="Natural-language queries",
)
regex_patterns: list[str] | None = synalinks.Field(
description="Regex patterns",
default=None,
)
async def main():
kb = synalinks.KnowledgeBase(
uri="duckdb://logs.db",
data_models=[LogLine],
)
inputs = synalinks.Input(data_model=Query)
outputs = await synalinks.HybridRegexSearch(
knowledge_base=kb,
data_model=LogLine,
k=5,
)(inputs)
program = synalinks.Program(inputs=inputs, outputs=outputs)
result = await program(Query(
similarity_search=["server crash"],
regex_patterns=[r"error \d+", r"panic:"],
))
print(result.get("result"))
asyncio.run(main())
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
knowledge_base
|
KnowledgeBase
|
The knowledge base to search. Required. |
None
|
schema
|
dict
|
JSON schema of the table's row. Used to infer
|
None
|
data_model
|
DataModel | SymbolicDataModel
|
Data model
providing |
None
|
table_name
|
str
|
Target table. Defaults to the schema's
|
None
|
k
|
int
|
Maximum number of results. Defaults to 10. |
10
|
k_rank
|
int
|
RRF smoothing constant. Lower values emphasize top ranks more strongly. Defaults to 60. |
60
|
similarity_threshold
|
float
|
Optional vector-distance threshold for the vector branch. |
None
|
ef_search
|
int
|
HNSW search-time candidate-list depth (forwarded to the vector branch). |
None
|
fields
|
list
|
Field names to match against in the regex branch. Defaults to every string field on the schema. |
None
|
case_sensitive
|
bool
|
When |
True
|
output_format
|
str
|
How the underlying adapter renders rows.
|
'json'
|
name
|
str
|
Module name. |
None
|
description
|
str
|
Module description. |
None
|
trainable
|
bool
|
Whether the module's variables should be trainable. |
True
|
Source code in synalinks/src/modules/retrievers/hybrid_regex_search.py
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HybridRegexSearchInput
Bases: DataModel
Input shape for HybridRegexSearch.
The regex_patterns list is optional — when omitted, the
adapter falls back to plain vector similarity over
similarity_search.