[Bug]: No 'batch_root' folder in tutorial notebook of vector search index

[BanJeoker]

File Name

generative-ai/blob/main/embeddings/intro-textemb-vectorsearch.ipynb

What happened?

In this sentence, Then, create a new Cloud Storage bucket and copy the file to it. BUCKET_URI = f"gs://{PROJECT_ID}-embvs-tutorial-{UID}" ! gsutil mb -l $LOCATION -p {PROJECT_ID} {BUCKET_URI} ! gsutil cp questions.json {BUCKET_URI}

You need to create a 'batch_root' folder in the bucket you just created, otherwise the index created will not use that json file, it will be an empty index.

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[kazunori279]

Hi @BanJeoker , did you actually ran the notebook and saw an empty index created? I've been creating index without the batch_root folder for many times, and haven't seen any issues..

[BanJeoker]

@kazunori279 yes I ran the notebook, the index can be created without the batch_root folder, however, in that case, the index will have no dense count, a query will return empty list back. Also, isn't creating the batch_root folder emphasized in the official documentation here

https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/vector-search/setup/format-st

Thanks

[kazunori279]

Hi @BanJeoker , I just went through the notebook from the start, and got a proper result:

So the use of the batch_root folder may not be the cause why you are getting an empty result. But agree, it's better to add the use of batch_root folder to this sample to be consistent with the document.

[BanJeoker]

thank you Kaz