> Entering new SequentialChain chain...
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
Given some text, extract a list of facts from the text.
Format your output as a bulleted list.
Text:
"""
The Greenland Sea is an outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean located between Iceland, Norway, the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland. It has an area of 465,000 square miles and is an arm of the Arctic Ocean. It is covered almost entirely by water, some of which is frozen in the form of glaciers and icebergs. The sea is named after the island of Greenland, and is the Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic. It is often frozen over so navigation is limited, and is considered the northern branch of the Norwegian Sea.
"""
Facts:
> Finished chain.
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
You are an expert fact checker. You have been hired by a major news organization to fact check a very important story.
Here is a bullet point list of facts:
"""
- The Greenland Sea is an outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean located between Iceland, Norway, the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland.
- It has an area of 465,000 square miles.
- It is an arm of the Arctic Ocean.
- It is covered almost entirely by water, some of which is frozen in the form of glaciers and icebergs.
- It is named after the island of Greenland.
- It is the Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic.
- It is often frozen over so navigation is limited.
- It is considered the northern branch of the Norwegian Sea.
"""
For each fact, determine whether it is true or false about the subject. If you are unable to determine whether the fact is true or false, output "Undetermined".
If the fact is false, explain why.
> Finished chain.
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
Below are some assertions that have been fact checked and are labeled as true of false.  If the answer is false, a suggestion is given for a correction.
Checked Assertions:
"""
- The Greenland Sea is an outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean located between Iceland, Norway, the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland. True
- It has an area of 465,000 square miles. True
- It is an arm of the Arctic Ocean. True
- It is covered almost entirely by water, some of which is frozen in the form of glaciers and icebergs. True
- It is named after the island of Greenland. False - It is named after the country of Greenland.
- It is the Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic. True
- It is often frozen over so navigation is limited. True
- It is considered the northern branch of the Norwegian Sea. False - It is considered the northern branch of the Atlantic Ocean.
"""
Original Summary:
"""
The Greenland Sea is an outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean located between Iceland, Norway, the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland. It has an area of 465,000 square miles and is an arm of the Arctic Ocean. It is covered almost entirely by water, some of which is frozen in the form of glaciers and icebergs. The sea is named after the island of Greenland, and is the Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic. It is often frozen over so navigation is limited, and is considered the northern branch of the Norwegian Sea.
"""
Using these checked assertions, rewrite the original summary to be completely true.
The output should have the same structure and formatting as the original summary.
Summary:
> Finished chain.
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
Below are some assertions that have been fact checked and are labeled as true or false.
If all of the assertions are true, return "True". If any of the assertions are false, return "False".
Here are some examples:
===
Checked Assertions: """
- The sky is red: False
- Water is made of lava: False
- The sun is a star: True
"""
Result: False
===
Checked Assertions: """
- The sky is blue: True
- Water is wet: True
- The sun is a star: True
"""
Result: True
===
Checked Assertions: """
- The sky is blue - True
- Water is made of lava- False
- The sun is a star - True
"""
Result: False
===
Checked Assertions:"""


"""
Result: False
===
Checked Assertions:"""
- The Greenland Sea is an outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean located between Iceland, Norway, the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland. True
- It has an area of 465,000 square miles. True
- It is an arm of the Arctic Ocean. True
- It is covered almost entirely by water, some of which is frozen in the form of glaciers and icebergs. True
- It is named after the island of Greenland. False - It is named after the country of Greenland.
- It is the Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic. True
- It is often frozen over so navigation is limited. True
- It is considered the northern branch of the Norwegian Sea. False - It is considered the northern branch of the Atlantic Ocean.
"""
Result:
> Finished chain.
> Finished chain.
The Greenland Sea is an outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean located between Iceland, Norway, the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland. It has an area of 465,000 square miles and is an arm of the Arctic Ocean. It is covered almost entirely by water, some of which is frozen in the form of glaciers and icebergs. The sea is named after the country of Greenland, and is the Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic. It is often frozen over so navigation is limited, and is considered the northern branch of the Atlantic Ocean.
> Entering new SequentialChain chain...
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
Given some text, extract a list of facts from the text.
Format your output as a bulleted list.
Text:
"""
The Greenland Sea is an outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean located between Iceland, Norway, the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland. It has an area of 465,000 square miles and is an arm of the Arctic Ocean. It is covered almost entirely by water, some of which is frozen in the form of glaciers and icebergs. The sea is named after the country of Greenland, and is the Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic. It is often frozen over so navigation is limited, and is considered the northern branch of the Atlantic Ocean.
"""
Facts:
> Finished chain.
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
You are an expert fact checker. You have been hired by a major news organization to fact check a very important story.
Here is a bullet point list of facts:
"""
- The Greenland Sea is an outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean located between Iceland, Norway, the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland.
- It has an area of 465,000 square miles.
- It is covered almost entirely by water, some of which is frozen in the form of glaciers and icebergs.
- The sea is named after the country of Greenland.
- It is the Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic.
- It is often frozen over so navigation is limited.
- It is considered the northern branch of the Atlantic Ocean.
"""
For each fact, determine whether it is true or false about the subject. If you are unable to determine whether the fact is true or false, output "Undetermined".
If the fact is false, explain why.
> Finished chain.
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
Below are some assertions that have been fact checked and are labeled as true of false.  If the answer is false, a suggestion is given for a correction.
Checked Assertions:
"""
- The Greenland Sea is an outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean located between Iceland, Norway, the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland. True
- It has an area of 465,000 square miles. True
- It is covered almost entirely by water, some of which is frozen in the form of glaciers and icebergs. True
- The sea is named after the country of Greenland. True
- It is the Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic. False - The Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic is the Barents Sea.
- It is often frozen over so navigation is limited. True
- It is considered the northern branch of the Atlantic Ocean. False - The Greenland Sea is considered part of the Arctic Ocean, not the Atlantic Ocean.
"""
Original Summary:
"""


"""
Original Summary:
"""
The Greenland Sea is an outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean located between Iceland, Norway, the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland. It has an area of 465,000 square miles and is an arm of the Arctic Ocean. It is covered almost entirely by water, some of which is frozen in the form of glaciers and icebergs. The sea is named after the country of Greenland, and is the Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic. It is often frozen over so navigation is limited, and is considered the northern branch of the Atlantic Ocean.
"""
Using these checked assertions, rewrite the original summary to be completely true.
The output should have the same structure and formatting as the original summary.
Summary:
> Finished chain.
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
Below are some assertions that have been fact checked and are labeled as true or false.
If all of the assertions are true, return "True". If any of the assertions are false, return "False".
Here are some examples:
===
Checked Assertions: """
- The sky is red: False
- Water is made of lava: False
- The sun is a star: True
"""
Result: False
===
Checked Assertions: """
- The sky is blue: True
- Water is wet: True
- The sun is a star: True
"""
Result: True
===
Checked Assertions: """
- The sky is blue - True
- Water is made of lava- False
- The sun is a star - True
"""
Result: False
===
Checked Assertions:"""
- The Greenland Sea is an outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean located between Iceland, Norway, the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland. True
- It has an area of 465,000 square miles. True
- It is covered almost entirely by water, some of which is frozen in the form of glaciers and icebergs. True
- The sea is named after the country of Greenland. True
- It is the Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic. False - The Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic is the Barents Sea.
- It is often frozen over so navigation is limited. True
- It is considered the northern branch of the Atlantic Ocean. False - The Greenland Sea is considered part of the Arctic Ocean, not the Atlantic Ocean.
"""
Result:
> Finished chain.
> Finished chain.
The Greenland Sea is an outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean located between Iceland, Norway, the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland. It has an area of 465,000 square miles and is covered almost entirely by water, some of which is frozen in the form of glaciers and icebergs. The sea is named after the country of Greenland, and is the Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Barents Sea. It is often frozen over so navigation is limited, and is considered part of the Arctic Ocean.
> Finished chain.
"The Greenland Sea is an outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean located between Iceland, Norway, the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland. It has an area of 465,000 square miles and is covered almost entirely by water, some of which is frozen in the form of glaciers and icebergs. The sea is named after the country of Greenland, and is the Arctic Ocean's main outlet to the Barents Sea. It is often frozen over so navigation is limited, and is considered part of the Arctic Ocean."
from langchain.chains import LLMSummarizationCheckerChain
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
checker_chain = LLMSummarizationCheckerChain.from_llm(llm, max_checks=3, verbose=True)
text = "Mammals can lay eggs, birds can lay eggs, therefore birds are mammals."
checker_chain.run(text)
> Entering new LLMSummarizationCheckerChain chain...
> Entering new SequentialChain chain...
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
Given some text, extract a list of facts from the text.
Format your output as a bulleted list.
Text:
"""
Mammals can lay eggs, birds can lay eggs, therefore birds are mammals.
"""
Facts:
> Finished chain.
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
You are an expert fact checker. You have been hired by a major news organization to fact check a very important story.
Here is a bullet point list of facts:
"""
- Mammals can lay eggs
- Birds can lay eggs
- Birds are mammals
"""


- Birds can lay eggs
- Birds are mammals
"""
For each fact, determine whether it is true or false about the subject. If you are unable to determine whether the fact is true or false, output "Undetermined".
If the fact is false, explain why.
> Finished chain.
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
Below are some assertions that have been fact checked and are labeled as true of false.  If the answer is false, a suggestion is given for a correction.
Checked Assertions:
"""
- Mammals can lay eggs: False. Mammals are not capable of laying eggs, as they give birth to live young.
- Birds can lay eggs: True. Birds are capable of laying eggs.
- Birds are mammals: False. Birds are not mammals, they are a class of their own.
"""
Original Summary:
"""
Mammals can lay eggs, birds can lay eggs, therefore birds are mammals.
"""
Using these checked assertions, rewrite the original summary to be completely true.
The output should have the same structure and formatting as the original summary.
Summary:
> Finished chain.
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
Below are some assertions that have been fact checked and are labeled as true or false.
If all of the assertions are true, return "True". If any of the assertions are false, return "False".
Here are some examples:
===
Checked Assertions: """
- The sky is red: False
- Water is made of lava: False
- The sun is a star: True
"""
Result: False
===
Checked Assertions: """
- The sky is blue: True
- Water is wet: True
- The sun is a star: True
"""
Result: True
===
Checked Assertions: """
- The sky is blue - True
- Water is made of lava- False
- The sun is a star - True
"""
Result: False
===
Checked Assertions:"""
- Mammals can lay eggs: False. Mammals are not capable of laying eggs, as they give birth to live young.
- Birds can lay eggs: True. Birds are capable of laying eggs.
- Birds are mammals: False. Birds are not mammals, they are a class of their own.
"""
Result:
> Finished chain.
> Finished chain.
 Birds and mammals are both capable of laying eggs, however birds are not mammals, they are a class of their own.
> Entering new SequentialChain chain...
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
Given some text, extract a list of facts from the text.
Format your output as a bulleted list.
Text:
"""
 Birds and mammals are both capable of laying eggs, however birds are not mammals, they are a class of their own.
"""
Facts:
> Finished chain.
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
You are an expert fact checker. You have been hired by a major news organization to fact check a very important story.
Here is a bullet point list of facts:
"""
- Birds and mammals are both capable of laying eggs.
- Birds are not mammals.
- Birds are a class of their own.
"""
For each fact, determine whether it is true or false about the subject. If you are unable to determine whether the fact is true or false, output "Undetermined".
If the fact is false, explain why.
> Finished chain.
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
Below are some assertions that have been fact checked and are labeled as true of false.  If the answer is false, a suggestion is given for a correction.
Checked Assertions:
"""
- Birds and mammals are both capable of laying eggs: False. Mammals give birth to live young, while birds lay eggs.
- Birds are not mammals: True. Birds are a class of their own, separate from mammals.
- Birds are a class of their own: True. Birds are a class of their own, separate from mammals.
"""
Original Summary:
"""
 Birds and mammals are both capable of laying eggs, however birds are not mammals, they are a class of their own.
"""
Using these checked assertions, rewrite the original summary to be completely true.
The output should have the same structure and formatting as the original summary.
Summary:
> Finished chain.
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
Below are some assertions that have been fact checked and are labeled as true or false.


Below are some assertions that have been fact checked and are labeled as true or false.
If all of the assertions are true, return "True". If any of the assertions are false, return "False".
Here are some examples:
===
Checked Assertions: """
- The sky is red: False
- Water is made of lava: False
- The sun is a star: True
"""
Result: False
===
Checked Assertions: """
- The sky is blue: True
- Water is wet: True
- The sun is a star: True
"""
Result: True
===
Checked Assertions: """
- The sky is blue - True
- Water is made of lava- False
- The sun is a star - True
"""
Result: False
===
Checked Assertions:"""
- Birds and mammals are both capable of laying eggs: False. Mammals give birth to live young, while birds lay eggs.
- Birds are not mammals: True. Birds are a class of their own, separate from mammals.
- Birds are a class of their own: True. Birds are a class of their own, separate from mammals.
"""
Result:
> Finished chain.
> Finished chain.
> Finished chain.
'Birds are not mammals, but they are a class of their own. They lay eggs, unlike mammals which give birth to live young.'
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By Harrison Chase

      © Copyright 2023, Harrison Chase.

  Last updated on Jun 08, 2023.


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Moderation
 Contents
How to use the moderation chain
How to append a Moderation chain to an LLMChain
Moderation#
This notebook walks through examples of how to use a moderation chain, and several common ways for doing so. Moderation chains are useful for detecting text that could be hateful, violent, etc. This can be useful to apply on both user input, but also on the output of a Language Model. Some API providers, like OpenAI, specifically prohibit you, or your end users, from generating some types of harmful content. To comply with this (and to just generally prevent your application from being harmful) you may often want to append a moderation chain to any LLMChains, in order to make sure any output the LLM generates is not harmful.
If the content passed into the moderation chain is harmful, there is not one best way to handle it, it probably depends on your application. Sometimes you may want to throw an error in the Chain (and have your application handle that). Other times, you may want to return something to the user explaining that the text was harmful. There could even be other ways to handle it! We will cover all these ways in this notebook.
In this notebook, we will show:
How to run any piece of text through a moderation chain.
How to append a Moderation chain to an LLMChain.
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chains import OpenAIModerationChain, SequentialChain, LLMChain, SimpleSequentialChain
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
How to use the moderation chain#
Here’s an example of using the moderation chain with default settings (will return a string explaining stuff was flagged).
moderation_chain = OpenAIModerationChain()
moderation_chain.run("This is okay")
'This is okay'
moderation_chain.run("I will kill you")
"Text was found that violates OpenAI's content policy."
Here’s an example of using the moderation chain to throw an error.
moderation_chain_error = OpenAIModerationChain(error=True)
moderation_chain_error.run("This is okay")
'This is okay'
moderation_chain_error.run("I will kill you")
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[7], line 1
----> 1 moderation_chain_error.run("I will kill you")
File ~/workplace/langchain/langchain/chains/base.py:138, in Chain.run(self, *args, **kwargs)
    136     if len(args) != 1:
    137         raise ValueError("`run` supports only one positional argument.")
--> 138     return self(args[0])[self.output_keys[0]]
    140 if kwargs and not args:
    141     return self(kwargs)[self.output_keys[0]]
File ~/workplace/langchain/langchain/chains/base.py:112, in Chain.__call__(self, inputs, return_only_outputs)
    108 if self.verbose:
    109     print(
    110         f"\n\n\033[1m> Entering new {self.__class__.__name__} chain...\033[0m"
    111     )
--> 112 outputs = self._call(inputs)
    113 if self.verbose:
    114     print(f"\n\033[1m> Finished {self.__class__.__name__} chain.\033[0m")
File ~/workplace/langchain/langchain/chains/moderation.py:81, in OpenAIModerationChain._call(self, inputs)
     79 text = inputs[self.input_key]
     80 results = self.client.create(text)
---> 81 output = self._moderate(text, results["results"][0])
     82 return {self.output_key: output}
File ~/workplace/langchain/langchain/chains/moderation.py:73, in OpenAIModerationChain._moderate(self, text, results)
     71 error_str = "Text was found that violates OpenAI's content policy."
     72 if self.error:
---> 73     raise ValueError(error_str)
     74 else:
     75     return error_str
ValueError: Text was found that violates OpenAI's content policy.
Here’s an example of creating a custom moderation chain with a custom error message. It requires some knowledge of OpenAI’s moderation endpoint results (see docs here).
class CustomModeration(OpenAIModerationChain):

    def _moderate(self, text: str, results: dict) -> str:
        if results["flagged"]:


if results["flagged"]:
            error_str = f"The following text was found that violates OpenAI's content policy: {text}"
            return error_str
        return text

custom_moderation = CustomModeration()
custom_moderation.run("This is okay")
'This is okay'
custom_moderation.run("I will kill you")
"The following text was found that violates OpenAI's content policy: I will kill you"
How to append a Moderation chain to an LLMChain#
To easily combine a moderation chain with an LLMChain, you can use the SequentialChain abstraction.
Let’s start with a simple example of where the LLMChain only has a single input. For this purpose, we will prompt the model so it says something harmful.
prompt = PromptTemplate(template="{text}", input_variables=["text"])
llm_chain = LLMChain(llm=OpenAI(temperature=0, model_name="text-davinci-002"), prompt=prompt)
text = """We are playing a game of repeat after me.
Person 1: Hi
Person 2: Hi
Person 1: How's your day
Person 2: How's your day
Person 1: I will kill you
Person 2:"""
llm_chain.run(text)
' I will kill you'
chain = SimpleSequentialChain(chains=[llm_chain, moderation_chain])
chain.run(text)
"Text was found that violates OpenAI's content policy."
Now let’s walk through an example of using it with an LLMChain which has multiple inputs (a bit more tricky because we can’t use the SimpleSequentialChain)
prompt = PromptTemplate(template="{setup}{new_input}Person2:", input_variables=["setup", "new_input"])
llm_chain = LLMChain(llm=OpenAI(temperature=0, model_name="text-davinci-002"), prompt=prompt)
setup = """We are playing a game of repeat after me.
Person 1: Hi
Person 2: Hi
Person 1: How's your day
Person 2: How's your day
Person 1:"""
new_input = "I will kill you"
inputs = {"setup": setup, "new_input": new_input}
llm_chain(inputs, return_only_outputs=True)
{'text': ' I will kill you'}
# Setting the input/output keys so it lines up
moderation_chain.input_key = "text"
moderation_chain.output_key = "sanitized_text"
chain = SequentialChain(chains=[llm_chain, moderation_chain], input_variables=["setup", "new_input"])
chain(inputs, return_only_outputs=True)
{'sanitized_text': "Text was found that violates OpenAI's content policy."}
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How to use the moderation chain
How to append a Moderation chain to an LLMChain
By Harrison Chase

      © Copyright 2023, Harrison Chase.

  Last updated on Jun 08, 2023.


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Summarization
 Contents
Prepare Data
Quickstart
The stuff Chain
The map_reduce Chain
The custom MapReduceChain
The refine Chain
Summarization#
This notebook walks through how to use LangChain for summarization over a list of documents. It covers three different chain types: stuff, map_reduce, and refine. For a more in depth explanation of what these chain types are, see here.
Prepare Data#
First we prepare the data. For this example we create multiple documents from one long one, but these documents could be fetched in any manner (the point of this notebook to highlight what to do AFTER you fetch the documents).
from langchain import OpenAI, PromptTemplate, LLMChain
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.chains.mapreduce import MapReduceChain
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter()
with open("../../state_of_the_union.txt") as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
docs = [Document(page_content=t) for t in texts[:3]]
Quickstart#
If you just want to get started as quickly as possible, this is the recommended way to do it:
from langchain.chains.summarize import load_summarize_chain
chain = load_summarize_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")
chain.run(docs)
' In response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, the United States and its allies are taking action to hold Putin accountable, including economic sanctions, asset seizures, and military assistance. The US is also providing economic and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, and has passed the American Rescue Plan and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help struggling families and create jobs. The US remains unified and determined to protect Ukraine and the free world.'
If you want more control and understanding over what is happening, please see the information below.
The stuff Chain#
This sections shows results of using the stuff Chain to do summarization.
chain = load_summarize_chain(llm, chain_type="stuff")
chain.run(docs)
' In his speech, President Biden addressed the crisis in Ukraine, the American Rescue Plan, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. He discussed the need to invest in America, educate Americans, and build the economy from the bottom up. He also announced the release of 60 million barrels of oil from reserves around the world, and the creation of a dedicated task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs. He concluded by emphasizing the need to Buy American and use taxpayer dollars to rebuild America.'
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
prompt_template = """Write a concise summary of the following:
{text}
CONCISE SUMMARY IN ITALIAN:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(template=prompt_template, input_variables=["text"])
chain = load_summarize_chain(llm, chain_type="stuff", prompt=PROMPT)
chain.run(docs)
"\n\nIn questa serata, il Presidente degli Stati Uniti ha annunciato una serie di misure per affrontare la crisi in Ucraina, causata dall'aggressione di Putin. Ha anche annunciato l'invio di aiuti economici, militari e umanitari all'Ucraina. Ha anche annunciato che gli Stati Uniti e i loro alleati stanno imponendo sanzioni economiche a Putin e stanno rilasciando 60 milioni di barili di petrolio dalle riserve di tutto il mondo. Inoltre, ha annunciato che il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti sta creando una task force dedicata ai crimini degli oligarchi russi. Il Presidente ha anche annunciato l'approvazione della legge bipartitica sull'infrastruttura, che prevede investimenti per la ricostruzione dell'America. Questo porterà a creare posti"
The map_reduce Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map_reduce Chain to do summarization.
chain = load_summarize_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")
chain.run(docs)


chain.run(docs)
" In response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States and its allies have imposed economic sanctions and are taking other measures to hold Putin accountable. The US is also providing economic and military assistance to Ukraine, protecting NATO countries, and releasing oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve. President Biden and Vice President Harris have passed legislation to help struggling families and rebuild America's infrastructure."
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for map_reduce chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_map_steps variable.
chain = load_summarize_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_intermediate_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'map_steps': [" In response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States has united with other freedom-loving nations to impose economic sanctions and hold Putin accountable. The U.S. Department of Justice is also assembling a task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs and seize their ill-gotten gains.",
  ' The United States and its European allies are taking action to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, including seizing assets, closing off airspace, and providing economic and military assistance to Ukraine. The US is also mobilizing forces to protect NATO countries and has released 30 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help blunt gas prices. The world is uniting in support of Ukraine and democracy, and the US stands with its Ukrainian-American citizens.',
  " President Biden and Vice President Harris ran for office with a new economic vision for America, and have since passed the American Rescue Plan and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help struggling families and rebuild America's infrastructure. This includes creating jobs, modernizing roads, airports, ports, and waterways, replacing lead pipes, providing affordable high-speed internet, and investing in American products to support American jobs."],
 'output_text': " In response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States and its allies have imposed economic sanctions and are taking other measures to hold Putin accountable. The US is also providing economic and military assistance to Ukraine, protecting NATO countries, and passing legislation to help struggling families and rebuild America's infrastructure. The world is uniting in support of Ukraine and democracy, and the US stands with its Ukrainian-American citizens."}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
prompt_template = """Write a concise summary of the following:
{text}
CONCISE SUMMARY IN ITALIAN:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(template=prompt_template, input_variables=["text"])
chain = load_summarize_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_intermediate_steps=True, map_prompt=PROMPT, combine_prompt=PROMPT)
chain({"input_documents": docs}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ["\n\nQuesta sera, ci incontriamo come democratici, repubblicani e indipendenti, ma soprattutto come americani. La Russia di Putin ha cercato di scuotere le fondamenta del mondo libero, ma ha sottovalutato la forza della gente ucraina. Gli Stati Uniti e i loro alleati stanno ora imponendo sanzioni economiche a Putin e stanno tagliando l'accesso della Russia alla tecnologia. Il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti sta anche creando una task force dedicata per andare dopo i crimini degli oligarchi russi.",
  "\n\nStiamo unendo le nostre forze con quelle dei nostri alleati europei per sequestrare yacht, appartamenti di lusso e jet privati di Putin. Abbiamo chiuso lo spazio aereo americano ai voli russi e stiamo fornendo più di un miliardo di dollari in assistenza all'Ucraina. Abbiamo anche mobilitato le nostre forze terrestri, aeree e navali per proteggere i paesi della NATO. Abbiamo anche rilasciato 60 milioni di barili di petrolio dalle riserve di tutto il mondo, di cui 30 milioni dalla nostra riserva strategica di petrolio. Stiamo affrontando una prova reale e ci vorrà del tempo, ma alla fine Putin non riuscirà a spegnere l'amore dei popoli per la libertà.",


"\n\nIl Presidente Biden ha lottato per passare l'American Rescue Plan per aiutare le persone che soffrivano a causa della pandemia. Il piano ha fornito sollievo economico immediato a milioni di americani, ha aiutato a mettere cibo sulla loro tavola, a mantenere un tetto sopra le loro teste e a ridurre il costo dell'assicurazione sanitaria. Il piano ha anche creato più di 6,5 milioni di nuovi posti di lavoro, il più alto numero di posti di lavoro creati in un anno nella storia degli Stati Uniti. Il Presidente Biden ha anche firmato la legge bipartitica sull'infrastruttura, la più ampia iniziativa di ricostruzione della storia degli Stati Uniti. Il piano prevede di modernizzare le strade, gli aeroporti, i porti e le vie navigabili in"],
 'output_text': "\n\nIl Presidente Biden sta lavorando per aiutare le persone che soffrono a causa della pandemia attraverso l'American Rescue Plan e la legge bipartitica sull'infrastruttura. Gli Stati Uniti e i loro alleati stanno anche imponendo sanzioni economiche a Putin e tagliando l'accesso della Russia alla tecnologia. Stanno anche sequestrando yacht, appartamenti di lusso e jet privati di Putin e fornendo più di un miliardo di dollari in assistenza all'Ucraina. Alla fine, Putin non riuscirà a spegnere l'amore dei popoli per la libertà."}
The custom MapReduceChain#
Multi input prompt
You can also use prompt with multi input. In this example, we will use a MapReduce chain to answer specifc question about our code.
from langchain.chains.combine_documents.map_reduce import MapReduceDocumentsChain
from langchain.chains.combine_documents.stuff import StuffDocumentsChain
map_template_string = """Give the following python code information, generate a description that explains what the code does and also mention the time complexity.
Code:
{code}
Return the the description in the following format:
name of the function: description of the function
"""
reduce_template_string = """Give the following following python fuctions name and their descritpion, answer the following question
{code_description}
Question: {question}
Answer:
"""
MAP_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(input_variables=["code"], template=map_template_string)
REDUCE_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(input_variables=["code_description", "question"], template=reduce_template_string)
llm = OpenAI()
map_llm_chain = LLMChain(llm=llm, prompt=MAP_PROMPT)
reduce_llm_chain = LLMChain(llm=llm, prompt=REDUCE_PROMPT)
generative_result_reduce_chain = StuffDocumentsChain(
    llm_chain=reduce_llm_chain,
    document_variable_name="code_description",
)
combine_documents = MapReduceDocumentsChain(
    llm_chain=map_llm_chain,
    combine_document_chain=generative_result_reduce_chain,
    document_variable_name="code",
)
map_reduce = MapReduceChain(
    combine_documents_chain=combine_documents,
    text_splitter=CharacterTextSplitter(separator="\n##\n", chunk_size=100, chunk_overlap=0),
)
code = """
def bubblesort(list):
   for iter_num in range(len(list)-1,0,-1):
      for idx in range(iter_num):
         if list[idx]>list[idx+1]:
            temp = list[idx]
            list[idx] = list[idx+1]
            list[idx+1] = temp
    return list
##
def insertion_sort(InputList):
   for i in range(1, len(InputList)):
      j = i-1
      nxt_element = InputList[i]
   while (InputList[j] > nxt_element) and (j >= 0):
      InputList[j+1] = InputList[j]
      j=j-1
   InputList[j+1] = nxt_element
   return InputList
##
def shellSort(input_list):
   gap = len(input_list) // 2
   while gap > 0:
      for i in range(gap, len(input_list)):
         temp = input_list[i]
         j = i
   while j >= gap and input_list[j - gap] > temp:


while j >= gap and input_list[j - gap] > temp:
      input_list[j] = input_list[j - gap]
      j = j-gap
      input_list[j] = temp
   gap = gap//2
   return input_list
"""
map_reduce.run(input_text=code, question="Which function has a better time complexity?")
Created a chunk of size 247, which is longer than the specified 100
Created a chunk of size 267, which is longer than the specified 100
'shellSort has a better time complexity than both bubblesort and insertion_sort, as it has a time complexity of O(n^2), while the other two have a time complexity of O(n^2).'
The refine Chain#
This sections shows results of using the refine Chain to do summarization.
chain = load_summarize_chain(llm, chain_type="refine")
chain.run(docs)
"\n\nIn response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States has united with other freedom-loving nations to impose economic sanctions and hold Putin accountable. The U.S. Department of Justice is also assembling a task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs and seize their ill-gotten gains. We are joining with our European allies to find and seize the assets of Russian oligarchs, including yachts, luxury apartments, and private jets. The U.S. is also closing off American airspace to all Russian flights, further isolating Russia and adding an additional squeeze on their economy. The U.S. and its allies are providing support to the Ukrainians in their fight for freedom, including military, economic, and humanitarian assistance. The U.S. is also mobilizing ground forces, air squadrons, and ship deployments to protect NATO countries. The U.S. and its allies are also releasing 60 million barrels of oil from reserves around the world, with the U.S. contributing 30 million barrels from its own Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In addition, the U.S. has passed the American Rescue Plan to provide immediate economic relief for tens of millions of Americans, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to rebuild America and create jobs. This investment will"
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for refine chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_refine_steps variable.
chain = load_summarize_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_intermediate_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'refine_steps': [" In response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States has united with other freedom-loving nations to impose economic sanctions and hold Putin accountable. The U.S. Department of Justice is also assembling a task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs and seize their ill-gotten gains.",
  "\n\nIn response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States has united with other freedom-loving nations to impose economic sanctions and hold Putin accountable. The U.S. Department of Justice is also assembling a task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs and seize their ill-gotten gains. We are joining with our European allies to find and seize the assets of Russian oligarchs, including yachts, luxury apartments, and private jets. The U.S. is also closing off American airspace to all Russian flights, further isolating Russia and adding an additional squeeze on their economy. The U.S. and its allies are providing support to the Ukrainians in their fight for freedom, including military, economic, and humanitarian assistance. The U.S. is also mobilizing ground forces, air squadrons, and ship deployments to protect NATO countries. The U.S. and its allies are also releasing 60 million barrels of oil from reserves around the world, with the U.S. contributing 30 million barrels from its own Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Putin's war on Ukraine has left Russia weaker and the rest of the world stronger, with the world uniting in support of democracy and peace.",


"\n\nIn response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States has united with other freedom-loving nations to impose economic sanctions and hold Putin accountable. The U.S. Department of Justice is also assembling a task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs and seize their ill-gotten gains. We are joining with our European allies to find and seize the assets of Russian oligarchs, including yachts, luxury apartments, and private jets. The U.S. is also closing off American airspace to all Russian flights, further isolating Russia and adding an additional squeeze on their economy. The U.S. and its allies are providing support to the Ukrainians in their fight for freedom, including military, economic, and humanitarian assistance. The U.S. is also mobilizing ground forces, air squadrons, and ship deployments to protect NATO countries. The U.S. and its allies are also releasing 60 million barrels of oil from reserves around the world, with the U.S. contributing 30 million barrels from its own Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In addition, the U.S. has passed the American Rescue Plan to provide immediate economic relief for tens of millions of Americans, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to rebuild America and create jobs. This includes investing"],
 'output_text': "\n\nIn response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States has united with other freedom-loving nations to impose economic sanctions and hold Putin accountable. The U.S. Department of Justice is also assembling a task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs and seize their ill-gotten gains. We are joining with our European allies to find and seize the assets of Russian oligarchs, including yachts, luxury apartments, and private jets. The U.S. is also closing off American airspace to all Russian flights, further isolating Russia and adding an additional squeeze on their economy. The U.S. and its allies are providing support to the Ukrainians in their fight for freedom, including military, economic, and humanitarian assistance. The U.S. is also mobilizing ground forces, air squadrons, and ship deployments to protect NATO countries. The U.S. and its allies are also releasing 60 million barrels of oil from reserves around the world, with the U.S. contributing 30 million barrels from its own Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In addition, the U.S. has passed the American Rescue Plan to provide immediate economic relief for tens of millions of Americans, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to rebuild America and create jobs. This includes investing"}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
prompt_template = """Write a concise summary of the following:
{text}
CONCISE SUMMARY IN ITALIAN:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(template=prompt_template, input_variables=["text"])
refine_template = (
    "Your job is to produce a final summary\n"
    "We have provided an existing summary up to a certain point: {existing_answer}\n"
    "We have the opportunity to refine the existing summary"
    "(only if needed) with some more context below.\n"
    "------------\n"
    "{text}\n"
    "------------\n"
    "Given the new context, refine the original summary in Italian"
    "If the context isn't useful, return the original summary."
)
refine_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["existing_answer", "text"],
    template=refine_template,
)
chain = load_summarize_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_intermediate_steps=True, question_prompt=PROMPT, refine_prompt=refine_prompt)
chain({"input_documents": docs}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ["\n\nQuesta sera, ci incontriamo come democratici, repubblicani e indipendenti, ma soprattutto come americani. La Russia di Putin ha cercato di scuotere le fondamenta del mondo libero, ma ha sottovalutato la forza della gente ucraina. Insieme ai nostri alleati, stiamo imponendo sanzioni economiche, tagliando l'accesso della Russia alla tecnologia e bloccando i suoi più grandi istituti bancari dal sistema finanziario internazionale. Il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti sta anche assemblando una task force dedicata per andare dopo i crimini degli oligarchi russi.",


"\n\nQuesta sera, ci incontriamo come democratici, repubblicani e indipendenti, ma soprattutto come americani. La Russia di Putin ha cercato di scuotere le fondamenta del mondo libero, ma ha sottovalutato la forza della gente ucraina. Insieme ai nostri alleati, stiamo imponendo sanzioni economiche, tagliando l'accesso della Russia alla tecnologia, bloccando i suoi più grandi istituti bancari dal sistema finanziario internazionale e chiudendo lo spazio aereo americano a tutti i voli russi. Il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti sta anche assemblando una task force dedicata per andare dopo i crimini degli oligarchi russi. Stiamo fornendo più di un miliardo di dollari in assistenza diretta all'Ucraina e fornendo assistenza militare,",
  "\n\nQuesta sera, ci incontriamo come democratici, repubblicani e indipendenti, ma soprattutto come americani. La Russia di Putin ha cercato di scuotere le fondamenta del mondo libero, ma ha sottovalutato la forza della gente ucraina. Insieme ai nostri alleati, stiamo imponendo sanzioni economiche, tagliando l'accesso della Russia alla tecnologia, bloccando i suoi più grandi istituti bancari dal sistema finanziario internazionale e chiudendo lo spazio aereo americano a tutti i voli russi. Il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti sta anche assemblando una task force dedicata per andare dopo i crimini degli oligarchi russi. Stiamo fornendo più di un miliardo di dollari in assistenza diretta all'Ucraina e fornendo assistenza militare."],
 'output_text': "\n\nQuesta sera, ci incontriamo come democratici, repubblicani e indipendenti, ma soprattutto come americani. La Russia di Putin ha cercato di scuotere le fondamenta del mondo libero, ma ha sottovalutato la forza della gente ucraina. Insieme ai nostri alleati, stiamo imponendo sanzioni economiche, tagliando l'accesso della Russia alla tecnologia, bloccando i suoi più grandi istituti bancari dal sistema finanziario internazionale e chiudendo lo spazio aereo americano a tutti i voli russi. Il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti sta anche assemblando una task force dedicata per andare dopo i crimini degli oligarchi russi. Stiamo fornendo più di un miliardo di dollari in assistenza diretta all'Ucraina e fornendo assistenza militare."}
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Prepare Data
Quickstart
The stuff Chain
The map_reduce Chain
The custom MapReduceChain
The refine Chain
By Harrison Chase

      © Copyright 2023, Harrison Chase.

  Last updated on Jun 08, 2023.


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Question Answering with Sources
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Prepare Data
Quickstart
The stuff Chain
The map_reduce Chain
The refine Chain
The map-rerank Chain
Question Answering with Sources#
This notebook walks through how to use LangChain for question answering with sources over a list of documents. It covers four different chain types: stuff, map_reduce, refine,map-rerank. For a more in depth explanation of what these chain types are, see here.
Prepare Data#
First we prepare the data. For this example we do similarity search over a vector database, but these documents could be fetched in any manner (the point of this notebook to highlight what to do AFTER you fetch the documents).
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.embeddings.cohere import CohereEmbeddings
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.vectorstores.elastic_vector_search import ElasticVectorSearch
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
with open("../../state_of_the_union.txt") as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
docsearch = Chroma.from_texts(texts, embeddings, metadatas=[{"source": str(i)} for i in range(len(texts))])
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
docs = docsearch.similarity_search(query)
from langchain.chains.qa_with_sources import load_qa_with_sources_chain
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
Quickstart#
If you just want to get started as quickly as possible, this is the recommended way to do it:
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.\nSOURCES: 30-pl'}
If you want more control and understanding over what is happening, please see the information below.
The stuff Chain#
This sections shows results of using the stuff Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.\nSOURCES: 30-pl'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
template = """Given the following extracted parts of a long document and a question, create a final answer with references ("SOURCES").
If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know. Don't try to make up an answer.
ALWAYS return a "SOURCES" part in your answer.
Respond in Italian.
QUESTION: {question}
=========
{summaries}
=========
FINAL ANSWER IN ITALIAN:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(template=template, input_variables=["summaries", "question"])
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff", prompt=PROMPT)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': '\nNon so cosa abbia detto il presidente riguardo a Justice Breyer.\nSOURCES: 30, 31, 33'}
The map_reduce Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map_reduce Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.\nSOURCES: 30-pl'}
Intermediate Steps


Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for map_reduce chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_intermediate_steps variable.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_intermediate_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': [' "Tonight, I’d like to honor someone who has dedicated his life to serve this country: Justice Stephen Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service."',
  ' None',
  ' None',
  ' None'],
 'output_text': ' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.\nSOURCES: 30-pl'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
question_prompt_template = """Use the following portion of a long document to see if any of the text is relevant to answer the question.
Return any relevant text in Italian.
{context}
Question: {question}
Relevant text, if any, in Italian:"""
QUESTION_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=question_prompt_template, input_variables=["context", "question"]
)
combine_prompt_template = """Given the following extracted parts of a long document and a question, create a final answer with references ("SOURCES").
If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know. Don't try to make up an answer.
ALWAYS return a "SOURCES" part in your answer.
Respond in Italian.
QUESTION: {question}
=========
{summaries}
=========
FINAL ANSWER IN ITALIAN:"""
COMBINE_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=combine_prompt_template, input_variables=["summaries", "question"]
)
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_intermediate_steps=True, question_prompt=QUESTION_PROMPT, combine_prompt=COMBINE_PROMPT)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ["\nStasera vorrei onorare qualcuno che ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese: il giustizia Stephen Breyer - un veterano dell'esercito, uno studioso costituzionale e un giustizia in uscita della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti. Giustizia Breyer, grazie per il tuo servizio.",
  ' Non pertinente.',
  ' Non rilevante.',
  " Non c'è testo pertinente."],
 'output_text': ' Non conosco la risposta. SOURCES: 30, 31, 33, 20.'}
Batch Size
When using the map_reduce chain, one thing to keep in mind is the batch size you are using during the map step. If this is too high, it could cause rate limiting errors. You can control this by setting the batch size on the LLM used. Note that this only applies for LLMs with this parameter. Below is an example of doing so:
llm = OpenAI(batch_size=5, temperature=0)
The refine Chain#
This sections shows results of using the refine Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)


chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': "\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked him for his service and praised his career as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He noted Justice Breyer's reputation as a consensus builder and the broad range of support he has received from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also highlighted the importance of securing the border and fixing the immigration system in order to advance liberty and justice, and mentioned the new technology, joint patrols, dedicated immigration judges, and commitments to support partners in South and Central America that have been put in place. He also expressed his commitment to the LGBTQ+ community, noting the need for the bipartisan Equality Act and the importance of protecting transgender Americans from state laws targeting them. He also highlighted his commitment to bipartisanship, noting the 80 bipartisan bills he signed into law last year, and his plans to strengthen the Violence Against Women Act. Additionally, he announced that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud and his plan to lower the deficit by more than one trillion dollars in a"}
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for refine chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_intermediate_steps variable.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_intermediate_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ['\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service.',
  '\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service, noting his background as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He praised Justice Breyer for being a consensus builder and for receiving a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also noted that in order to advance liberty and justice, it was necessary to secure the border and fix the immigration system, and that the government was taking steps to do both. \n\nSource: 31',
  '\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service, noting his background as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He praised Justice Breyer for being a consensus builder and for receiving a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also noted that in order to advance liberty and justice, it was necessary to secure the border and fix the immigration system, and that the government was taking steps to do both. He also mentioned the need to pass the bipartisan Equality Act to protect LGBTQ+ Americans, and to strengthen the Violence Against Women Act that he had written three decades ago. \n\nSource: 31, 33',


'\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service, noting his background as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He praised Justice Breyer for being a consensus builder and for receiving a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also noted that in order to advance liberty and justice, it was necessary to secure the border and fix the immigration system, and that the government was taking steps to do both. He also mentioned the need to pass the bipartisan Equality Act to protect LGBTQ+ Americans, and to strengthen the Violence Against Women Act that he had written three decades ago. Additionally, he mentioned his plan to lower costs to give families a fair shot, lower the deficit, and go after criminals who stole billions in relief money meant for small businesses and millions of Americans. He also announced that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud. \n\nSource: 20, 31, 33'],
 'output_text': '\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service, noting his background as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He praised Justice Breyer for being a consensus builder and for receiving a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also noted that in order to advance liberty and justice, it was necessary to secure the border and fix the immigration system, and that the government was taking steps to do both. He also mentioned the need to pass the bipartisan Equality Act to protect LGBTQ+ Americans, and to strengthen the Violence Against Women Act that he had written three decades ago. Additionally, he mentioned his plan to lower costs to give families a fair shot, lower the deficit, and go after criminals who stole billions in relief money meant for small businesses and millions of Americans. He also announced that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud. \n\nSource: 20, 31, 33'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
refine_template = (
    "The original question is as follows: {question}\n"
    "We have provided an existing answer, including sources: {existing_answer}\n"
    "We have the opportunity to refine the existing answer"
    "(only if needed) with some more context below.\n"
    "------------\n"
    "{context_str}\n"
    "------------\n"
    "Given the new context, refine the original answer to better "
    "answer the question (in Italian)"
    "If you do update it, please update the sources as well. "
    "If the context isn't useful, return the original answer."
)
refine_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["question", "existing_answer", "context_str"],
    template=refine_template,
)
question_template = (
    "Context information is below. \n"
    "---------------------\n"
    "{context_str}"
    "\n---------------------\n"
    "Given the context information and not prior knowledge, "
    "answer the question in Italian: {question}\n"
)
question_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["context_str", "question"], template=question_template
)
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_intermediate_steps=True, question_prompt=question_prompt, refine_prompt=refine_prompt)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ['\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera.',


"\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha onorato la sua carriera e ha contribuito a costruire un consenso. Ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani. Inoltre, ha sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere e la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione. Ha anche menzionato le nuove tecnologie come scanner all'avanguardia per rilevare meglio il traffico di droga, le pattuglie congiunte con Messico e Guatemala per catturare più trafficanti di esseri umani, l'istituzione di giudici di immigrazione dedicati per far sì che le famiglie che fuggono da per",
  "\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha onorato la sua carriera e ha contribuito a costruire un consenso. Ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani. Inoltre, ha sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere e la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione. Ha anche menzionato le nuove tecnologie come scanner all'avanguardia per rilevare meglio il traffico di droga, le pattuglie congiunte con Messico e Guatemala per catturare più trafficanti di esseri umani, l'istituzione di giudici di immigrazione dedicati per far sì che le famiglie che fuggono da per",
  "\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha onorato la sua carriera e ha contribuito a costruire un consenso. Ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani. Inoltre, ha sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere e la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione. Ha anche menzionato le nuove tecnologie come scanner all'avanguardia per rilevare meglio il traffico di droga, le pattuglie congiunte con Messico e Guatemala per catturare più trafficanti di esseri umani, l'istituzione di giudici di immigrazione dedicati per far sì che le famiglie che fuggono da per"],
 'output_text': "\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha onorato la sua carriera e ha contribuito a costruire un consenso. Ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani. Inoltre, ha sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere e la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione. Ha anche menzionato le nuove tecnologie come scanner all'avanguardia per rilevare meglio il traffico di droga, le pattuglie congiunte con Messico e Guatemala per catturare più trafficanti di esseri umani, l'istituzione di giudici di immigrazione dedicati per far sì che le famiglie che fuggono da per"}
The map-rerank Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map-rerank Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_rerank", metadata_keys=['source'], return_intermediate_steps=True)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
result = chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
result["output_text"]


result["output_text"]
' The President thanked Justice Breyer for his service and honored him for dedicating his life to serve the country.'
result["intermediate_steps"]
[{'answer': ' The President thanked Justice Breyer for his service and honored him for dedicating his life to serve the country.',
  'score': '100'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'}]
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
from langchain.output_parsers import RegexParser
output_parser = RegexParser(
    regex=r"(.*?)\nScore: (.*)",
    output_keys=["answer", "score"],
)
prompt_template = """Use the following pieces of context to answer the question at the end. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer.
In addition to giving an answer, also return a score of how fully it answered the user's question. This should be in the following format:
Question: [question here]
Helpful Answer In Italian: [answer here]
Score: [score between 0 and 100]
Begin!
Context:
---------
{context}
---------
Question: {question}
Helpful Answer In Italian:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=prompt_template,
    input_variables=["context", "question"],
    output_parser=output_parser,
)
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_rerank", metadata_keys=['source'], return_intermediate_steps=True, prompt=PROMPT)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
result = chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
result
{'source': 30,
 'intermediate_steps': [{'answer': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera.',
   'score': '100'},
  {'answer': ' Il presidente non ha detto nulla sulla Giustizia Breyer.',
   'score': '100'},
  {'answer': ' Non so.', 'score': '0'},
  {'answer': ' Il presidente non ha detto nulla sulla giustizia Breyer.',
   'score': '100'}],
 'output_text': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera.'}
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Question Answering
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Prepare Data
Quickstart
The stuff Chain
The map_reduce Chain
The refine Chain
The map-rerank Chain
Question Answering#
This notebook walks through how to use LangChain for question answering over a list of documents. It covers four different types of chains: stuff, map_reduce, refine, map_rerank. For a more in depth explanation of what these chain types are, see here.
Prepare Data#
First we prepare the data. For this example we do similarity search over a vector database, but these documents could be fetched in any manner (the point of this notebook to highlight what to do AFTER you fetch the documents).
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
from langchain.indexes.vectorstore import VectorstoreIndexCreator
with open("../../state_of_the_union.txt") as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
docsearch = Chroma.from_texts(texts, embeddings, metadatas=[{"source": str(i)} for i in range(len(texts))]).as_retriever()
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
docs = docsearch.get_relevant_documents(query)
from langchain.chains.question_answering import load_qa_chain
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
Quickstart#
If you just want to get started as quickly as possible, this is the recommended way to do it:
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain.run(input_documents=docs, question=query)
' The president said that Justice Breyer has dedicated his life to serve the country and thanked him for his service.'
If you want more control and understanding over what is happening, please see the information below.
The stuff Chain#
This sections shows results of using the stuff Chain to do question answering.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president said that Justice Breyer has dedicated his life to serve the country and thanked him for his service.'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
prompt_template = """Use the following pieces of context to answer the question at the end. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer.
{context}
Question: {question}
Answer in Italian:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=prompt_template, input_variables=["context", "question"]
)
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff", prompt=PROMPT)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese e ha ricevuto una vasta gamma di supporto.'}
The map_reduce Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map_reduce Chain to do question answering.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president said that Justice Breyer is an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and thanked him for his service.'}
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for map_reduce chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_map_steps variable.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_map_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)


chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': [' "Tonight, I’d like to honor someone who has dedicated his life to serve this country: Justice Stephen Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service."',
  ' A former top litigator in private practice. A former federal public defender. And from a family of public school educators and police officers. A consensus builder. Since she’s been nominated, she’s received a broad range of support—from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans.',
  ' None',
  ' None'],
 'output_text': ' The president said that Justice Breyer is an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and thanked him for his service.'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
question_prompt_template = """Use the following portion of a long document to see if any of the text is relevant to answer the question.
Return any relevant text translated into italian.
{context}
Question: {question}
Relevant text, if any, in Italian:"""
QUESTION_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=question_prompt_template, input_variables=["context", "question"]
)
combine_prompt_template = """Given the following extracted parts of a long document and a question, create a final answer italian.
If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know. Don't try to make up an answer.
QUESTION: {question}
=========
{summaries}
=========
Answer in Italian:"""
COMBINE_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=combine_prompt_template, input_variables=["summaries", "question"]
)
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_map_steps=True, question_prompt=QUESTION_PROMPT, combine_prompt=COMBINE_PROMPT)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ["\nStasera vorrei onorare qualcuno che ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese: il giustizia Stephen Breyer - un veterano dell'esercito, uno studioso costituzionale e un giustizia in uscita della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti. Giustizia Breyer, grazie per il tuo servizio.",
  '\nNessun testo pertinente.',
  ' Non ha detto nulla riguardo a Justice Breyer.',
  " Non c'è testo pertinente."],
 'output_text': ' Non ha detto nulla riguardo a Justice Breyer.'}
Batch Size
When using the map_reduce chain, one thing to keep in mind is the batch size you are using during the map step. If this is too high, it could cause rate limiting errors. You can control this by setting the batch size on the LLM used. Note that this only applies for LLMs with this parameter. Below is an example of doing so:
llm = OpenAI(batch_size=5, temperature=0)
The refine Chain#
This sections shows results of using the refine Chain to do question answering.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': '\n\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice, as well as for his support of the Equality Act and his commitment to protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans. He also praised Justice Breyer for his role in helping to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which he said would be the most sweeping investment to rebuild America in history and would help the country compete for the jobs of the 21st Century.'}
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for refine chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_refine_steps variable.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_refine_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)


chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ['\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and his legacy of excellence.',
  '\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice.',
  '\n\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice, as well as for his support of the Equality Act and his commitment to protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans.',
  '\n\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice, as well as for his support of the Equality Act and his commitment to protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans. He also praised Justice Breyer for his role in helping to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is the most sweeping investment to rebuild America in history.'],
 'output_text': '\n\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice, as well as for his support of the Equality Act and his commitment to protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans. He also praised Justice Breyer for his role in helping to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is the most sweeping investment to rebuild America in history.'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
refine_prompt_template = (
    "The original question is as follows: {question}\n"
    "We have provided an existing answer: {existing_answer}\n"
    "We have the opportunity to refine the existing answer"
    "(only if needed) with some more context below.\n"
    "------------\n"
    "{context_str}\n"
    "------------\n"
    "Given the new context, refine the original answer to better "
    "answer the question. "
    "If the context isn't useful, return the original answer. Reply in Italian."
)
refine_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["question", "existing_answer", "context_str"],
    template=refine_prompt_template,
)
initial_qa_template = (
    "Context information is below. \n"
    "---------------------\n"
    "{context_str}"
    "\n---------------------\n"
    "Given the context information and not prior knowledge, "
    "answer the question: {question}\nYour answer should be in Italian.\n"
)
initial_qa_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["context_str", "question"], template=initial_qa_template
)
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_refine_steps=True,
                     question_prompt=initial_qa_prompt, refine_prompt=refine_prompt)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ['\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese e ha reso omaggio al suo servizio.',
  "\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha reso omaggio al suo servizio e ha sostenuto la nomina di una top litigatrice in pratica privata, un ex difensore pubblico federale e una famiglia di insegnanti e agenti di polizia delle scuole pubbliche. Ha anche sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere e la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione.",


"\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha reso omaggio al suo servizio e ha sostenuto la nomina di una top litigatrice in pratica privata, un ex difensore pubblico federale e una famiglia di insegnanti e agenti di polizia delle scuole pubbliche. Ha anche sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere, la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione, la protezione degli americani LGBTQ+ e l'approvazione dell'Equality Act. Ha inoltre sottolineato l'importanza di lavorare insieme per sconfiggere l'epidemia di oppiacei.",
  "\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha reso omaggio al suo servizio e ha sostenuto la nomina di una top litigatrice in pratica privata, un ex difensore pubblico federale e una famiglia di insegnanti e agenti di polizia delle scuole pubbliche. Ha anche sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere, la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione, la protezione degli americani LGBTQ+ e l'approvazione dell'Equality Act. Ha inoltre sottolineato l'importanza di lavorare insieme per sconfiggere l'epidemia di oppiacei e per investire in America, educare gli americani, far crescere la forza lavoro e costruire l'economia dal"],
 'output_text': "\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha reso omaggio al suo servizio e ha sostenuto la nomina di una top litigatrice in pratica privata, un ex difensore pubblico federale e una famiglia di insegnanti e agenti di polizia delle scuole pubbliche. Ha anche sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere, la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione, la protezione degli americani LGBTQ+ e l'approvazione dell'Equality Act. Ha inoltre sottolineato l'importanza di lavorare insieme per sconfiggere l'epidemia di oppiacei e per investire in America, educare gli americani, far crescere la forza lavoro e costruire l'economia dal"}
The map-rerank Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map-rerank Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_rerank", return_intermediate_steps=True)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
results = chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
results["output_text"]
' The President thanked Justice Breyer for his service and honored him for dedicating his life to serve the country.'
results["intermediate_steps"]
[{'answer': ' The President thanked Justice Breyer for his service and honored him for dedicating his life to serve the country.',
  'score': '100'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'}]
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
from langchain.output_parsers import RegexParser
output_parser = RegexParser(
    regex=r"(.*?)\nScore: (.*)",
    output_keys=["answer", "score"],
)
prompt_template = """Use the following pieces of context to answer the question at the end. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer.
In addition to giving an answer, also return a score of how fully it answered the user's question. This should be in the following format:
Question: [question here]
Helpful Answer In Italian: [answer here]
Score: [score between 0 and 100]


Score: [score between 0 and 100]
Begin!
Context:
---------
{context}
---------
Question: {question}
Helpful Answer In Italian:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=prompt_template,
    input_variables=["context", "question"],
    output_parser=output_parser,
)
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_rerank", return_intermediate_steps=True, prompt=PROMPT)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': [{'answer': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese.',
   'score': '100'},
  {'answer': ' Il presidente non ha detto nulla sulla Giustizia Breyer.',
   'score': '100'},
  {'answer': ' Non so.', 'score': '0'},
  {'answer': ' Non so.', 'score': '0'}],
 'output_text': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese.'}
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Hypothetical Document Embeddings
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Multiple generations
Using our own prompts
Using HyDE
Hypothetical Document Embeddings#
This notebook goes over how to use Hypothetical Document Embeddings (HyDE), as described in this paper.
At a high level, HyDE is an embedding technique that takes queries, generates a hypothetical answer, and then embeds that generated document and uses that as the final example.
In order to use HyDE, we therefore need to provide a base embedding model, as well as an LLMChain that can be used to generate those documents. By default, the HyDE class comes with some default prompts to use (see the paper for more details on them), but we can also create our own.
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.chains import LLMChain, HypotheticalDocumentEmbedder
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
base_embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
llm = OpenAI()
# Load with `web_search` prompt
embeddings = HypotheticalDocumentEmbedder.from_llm(llm, base_embeddings, "web_search")
# Now we can use it as any embedding class!
result = embeddings.embed_query("Where is the Taj Mahal?")
Multiple generations#
We can also generate multiple documents and then combine the embeddings for those. By default, we combine those by taking the average. We can do this by changing the LLM we use to generate documents to return multiple things.
multi_llm = OpenAI(n=4, best_of=4)
embeddings = HypotheticalDocumentEmbedder.from_llm(multi_llm, base_embeddings, "web_search")
result = embeddings.embed_query("Where is the Taj Mahal?")
Using our own prompts#
Besides using preconfigured prompts, we can also easily construct our own prompts and use those in the LLMChain that is generating the documents. This can be useful if we know the domain our queries will be in, as we can condition the prompt to generate text more similar to that.
In the example below, let’s condition it to generate text about a state of the union address (because we will use that in the next example).
prompt_template = """Please answer the user's question about the most recent state of the union address
Question: {question}
Answer:"""
prompt = PromptTemplate(input_variables=["question"], template=prompt_template)
llm_chain = LLMChain(llm=llm, prompt=prompt)
embeddings = HypotheticalDocumentEmbedder(llm_chain=llm_chain, base_embeddings=base_embeddings)
result = embeddings.embed_query("What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson")
Using HyDE#
Now that we have HyDE, we can use it as we would any other embedding class! Here is using it to find similar passages in the state of the union example.
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
with open("../../state_of_the_union.txt") as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
docsearch = Chroma.from_texts(texts, embeddings)
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
docs = docsearch.similarity_search(query)
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
print(docs[0].page_content)
In state after state, new laws have been passed, not only to suppress the vote, but to subvert entire elections.
We cannot let this happen.
Tonight. I call on the Senate to: Pass the Freedom to Vote Act. Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. And while you’re at it, pass the Disclose Act so Americans can know who is funding our elections.
Tonight, I’d like to honor someone who has dedicated his life to serve this country: Justice Stephen Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service.
One of the most serious constitutional responsibilities a President has is nominating someone to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
And I did that 4 days ago, when I nominated Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. One of our nation’s top legal minds, who will continue Justice Breyer’s legacy of excellence.
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By Harrison Chase

      © Copyright 2023, Harrison Chase.

  Last updated on Jun 08, 2023.


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Chat Over Documents with Chat History
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Pass in chat history
Using a different model for condensing the question
Return Source Documents
ConversationalRetrievalChain with search_distance
ConversationalRetrievalChain with map_reduce
ConversationalRetrievalChain with Question Answering with sources
ConversationalRetrievalChain with streaming to stdout
get_chat_history Function
Chat Over Documents with Chat History#
This notebook goes over how to set up a chain to chat over documents with chat history using a ConversationalRetrievalChain. The only difference between this chain and the RetrievalQAChain is that this allows for passing in of a chat history which can be used to allow for follow up questions.
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chains import ConversationalRetrievalChain
Load in documents. You can replace this with a loader for whatever type of data you want
from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader
loader = TextLoader("../../state_of_the_union.txt")
documents = loader.load()
If you had multiple loaders that you wanted to combine, you do something like:
# loaders = [....]
# docs = []
# for loader in loaders:
#     docs.extend(loader.load())
We now split the documents, create embeddings for them, and put them in a vectorstore. This allows us to do semantic search over them.
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
documents = text_splitter.split_documents(documents)
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
vectorstore = Chroma.from_documents(documents, embeddings)
Using embedded DuckDB without persistence: data will be transient
We can now create a memory object, which is neccessary to track the inputs/outputs and hold a conversation.
from langchain.memory import ConversationBufferMemory
memory = ConversationBufferMemory(memory_key="chat_history", return_messages=True)
We now initialize the ConversationalRetrievalChain
qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), vectorstore.as_retriever(), memory=memory)
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = qa({"question": query})
result["answer"]
" The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He also said that she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans."
query = "Did he mention who she suceeded"
result = qa({"question": query})
result['answer']
' Ketanji Brown Jackson succeeded Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court.'
Pass in chat history#
In the above example, we used a Memory object to track chat history. We can also just pass it in explicitly. In order to do this, we need to initialize a chain without any memory object.
qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), vectorstore.as_retriever())
Here’s an example of asking a question with no chat history
chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
result["answer"]
" The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He also said that she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans."
Here’s an example of asking a question with some chat history
chat_history = [(query, result["answer"])]
query = "Did he mention who she suceeded"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
result['answer']
' Ketanji Brown Jackson succeeded Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court.'
Using a different model for condensing the question#


Using a different model for condensing the question#
This chain has two steps. First, it condenses the current question and the chat history into a standalone question. This is neccessary to create a standanlone vector to use for retrieval. After that, it does retrieval and then answers the question using retrieval augmented generation with a separate model. Part of the power of the declarative nature of LangChain is that you can easily use a separate language model for each call. This can be useful to use a cheaper and faster model for the simpler task of condensing the question, and then a more expensive model for answering the question. Here is an example of doing so.
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(
    ChatOpenAI(temperature=0, model="gpt-4"),
    vectorstore.as_retriever(),
    condense_question_llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature=0, model='gpt-3.5-turbo'),
)
chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
chat_history = [(query, result["answer"])]
query = "Did he mention who she suceeded"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
Return Source Documents#
You can also easily return source documents from the ConversationalRetrievalChain. This is useful for when you want to inspect what documents were returned.
qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), vectorstore.as_retriever(), return_source_documents=True)
chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
result['source_documents'][0]
Document(page_content='Tonight. I call on the Senate to: Pass the Freedom to Vote Act. Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. And while you’re at it, pass the Disclose Act so Americans can know who is funding our elections. \n\nTonight, I’d like to honor someone who has dedicated his life to serve this country: Justice Stephen Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service. \n\nOne of the most serious constitutional responsibilities a President has is nominating someone to serve on the United States Supreme Court. \n\nAnd I did that 4 days ago, when I nominated Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. One of our nation’s top legal minds, who will continue Justice Breyer’s legacy of excellence.', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'})
ConversationalRetrievalChain with search_distance#
If you are using a vector store that supports filtering by search distance, you can add a threshold value parameter.
vectordbkwargs = {"search_distance": 0.9}
qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), vectorstore.as_retriever(), return_source_documents=True)
chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history, "vectordbkwargs": vectordbkwargs})
ConversationalRetrievalChain with map_reduce#
We can also use different types of combine document chains with the ConversationalRetrievalChain chain.
from langchain.chains import LLMChain
from langchain.chains.question_answering import load_qa_chain
from langchain.chains.conversational_retrieval.prompts import CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
question_generator = LLMChain(llm=llm, prompt=CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT)
doc_chain = load_qa_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")
chain = ConversationalRetrievalChain(
    retriever=vectorstore.as_retriever(),
    question_generator=question_generator,
    combine_docs_chain=doc_chain,
)
chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = chain({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
result['answer']