that use memory.\nIndexes: Language models are often more powerful when combined with your own text data - this module covers best practices for doing exactly that.\nChains: Chains go beyond just a single LLM call, and are sequences of calls (whether to an LLM or a different utility). LangChain provides a standard interface for chains, lots of integrations with other tools, and end-to-end chains for common applications.\nAgents: Agents involve an LLM making decisions about which Actions to take, taking that Action, seeing an Observation, and repeating that until done. LangChain provides a standard interface for agents, a selection of agents to choose from, and examples of end to end agents.\n\n\n\n\n\nUse Cases#\nThe above modules can be used in a variety of ways. LangChain also provides guidance and assistance in this. Below are some of the common use cases LangChain supports.\n\nPersonal Assistants: The main LangChain use case. Personal assistants need to take actions, remember interactions, and have knowledge about your data.\nQuestion Answering: The second


have knowledge about your data.\nQuestion Answering: The second big LangChain use case. Answering questions over specific documents, only utilizing the information in those documents to construct an answer.\nChatbots: Since language models are good at producing text, that makes them ideal for creating chatbots.\nQuerying Tabular Data: If you want to understand how to use LLMs to query data that is stored in a tabular format (csvs, SQL, dataframes, etc) you should read this page.\nInteracting with APIs: Enabling LLMs to interact with APIs is extremely powerful in order to give them more up-to-date information and allow them to take actions.\nExtraction: Extract structured information from text.\nSummarization: Summarizing longer documents into shorter, more condensed chunks of information. A type of Data Augmented Generation.\nEvaluation: Generative models are notoriously hard to evaluate with traditional metrics. One new way of evaluating them is using language models themselves to do the evaluation. LangChain provides some prompts/chains for assisting in this.\n\n\n\n\n\nReference Docs#\nAll


assisting in this.\n\n\n\n\n\nReference Docs#\nAll of LangChain’s reference documentation, in one place. Full documentation on all methods, classes, installation methods, and integration setups for LangChain.\n\nReference Documentation\n\n\n\n\n\nLangChain Ecosystem#\nGuides for how other companies/products can be used with LangChain\n\nLangChain Ecosystem\n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Resources#\nAdditional collection of resources we think may be useful as you develop your application!\n\nLangChainHub: The LangChainHub is a place to share and explore other prompts, chains, and agents.\nGlossary: A glossary of all related terms, papers, methods, etc. Whether implemented in LangChain or not!\nGallery: A collection of our favorite projects that use LangChain. Useful for finding inspiration or seeing how things were done in other applications.\nDeployments: A collection of instructions, code snippets, and template repositories for deploying LangChain apps.\nTracing: A guide on using tracing in LangChain to visualize the execution of chains and agents.\nModel Laboratory: Experimenting with different prompts, models, and chains is a big part of


prompts, models, and chains is a big part of developing the best possible application. The ModelLaboratory makes it easy to do so.\nDiscord: Join us on our Discord to discuss all things LangChain!\nProduction Support: As you move your LangChains into production, we’d love to offer more comprehensive support. Please fill out this form and we’ll set up a dedicated support Slack channel.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nnext\nQuickstart Guide\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Contents\n  \n\n\nGetting Started\nModules\nUse Cases\nReference Docs\nLangChain Ecosystem\nAdditional Resources\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy Harrison Chase\n\n\n\n\n    \n      © Copyright 2023, Harrison Chase.\n      \n\n\n\n\n  Last updated on Mar 27, 2023.\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/', 'loc': 'https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/', 'lastmod': '2023-03-27T22:50:49.790324+00:00', 'changefreq': 'daily', 'priority': '0.9'}, lookup_index=0)


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Airbyte JSON
Airbyte JSON#
This covers how to load any source from Airbyte into a local JSON file that can be read in as a document
Prereqs:
Have docker desktop installed
Steps:
Clone Airbyte from GitHub - git clone https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte.git
Switch into Airbyte directory - cd airbyte
Start Airbyte - docker compose up
In your browser, just visit http://localhost:8000. You will be asked for a username and password. By default, that’s username airbyte and password password.
Setup any source you wish.
Set destination as Local JSON, with specified destination path - lets say /json_data. Set up manual sync.
Run the connection!
To see what files are create, you can navigate to: file:///tmp/airbyte_local
Find your data and copy path. That path should be saved in the file variable below. It should start with /tmp/airbyte_local
from langchain.document_loaders import AirbyteJSONLoader
!ls /tmp/airbyte_local/json_data/
_airbyte_raw_pokemon.jsonl
loader = AirbyteJSONLoader('/tmp/airbyte_local/json_data/_airbyte_raw_pokemon.jsonl')
data = loader.load()
print(data[0].page_content[:500])
abilities:
ability:
name: blaze
url: https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/ability/66/
is_hidden: False
slot: 1
ability:
name: solar-power
url: https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/ability/94/
is_hidden: True
slot: 3
base_experience: 267
forms:
name: charizard
url: https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon-form/6/
game_indices:


game_indices:
game_index: 180
version:
name: red
url: https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/version/1/
game_index: 180
version:
name: blue
url: https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/version/2/
game_index: 180
version:
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Specifying Which Columns are Content vs Metadata
Adding Source to Metadata
DuckDB Loader#
Load a DuckDB query with one document per row.
from langchain.document_loaders import DuckDBLoader
%%file example.csv
Team,Payroll
Nationals,81.34
Reds,82.20
Writing example.csv
loader = DuckDBLoader("SELECT * FROM read_csv_auto('example.csv')")
data = loader.load()
print(data)
[Document(page_content='Team: Nationals\nPayroll: 81.34', metadata={}), Document(page_content='Team: Reds\nPayroll: 82.2', metadata={})]
Specifying Which Columns are Content vs Metadata#
loader = DuckDBLoader(
    "SELECT * FROM read_csv_auto('example.csv')",
    page_content_columns=["Team"],
    metadata_columns=["Payroll"]
)
data = loader.load()
print(data)
[Document(page_content='Team: Nationals', metadata={'Payroll': 81.34}), Document(page_content='Team: Reds', metadata={'Payroll': 82.2})]
Adding Source to Metadata#
loader = DuckDBLoader(
    "SELECT Team, Payroll, Team As source FROM read_csv_auto('example.csv')",
    metadata_columns=["source"]
)
data = loader.load()
print(data)
[Document(page_content='Team: Nationals\nPayroll: 81.34\nsource: Nationals', metadata={'source': 'Nationals'}), Document(page_content='Team: Reds\nPayroll: 82.2\nsource: Reds', metadata={'source': 'Reds'})]
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Subtitle Files#
How to load data from subtitle (.srt) files
from langchain.document_loaders import SRTLoader
loader = SRTLoader("example_data/Star_Wars_The_Clone_Wars_S06E07_Crisis_at_the_Heart.srt")
docs = loader.load()
docs[0].page_content[:100]
'<i>Corruption discovered\nat the core of the Banking Clan!</i> <i>Reunited, Rush Clovis\nand Senator A'
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GCS Directory
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Specifying a prefix
GCS Directory#
This covers how to load document objects from an Google Cloud Storage (GCS) directory.
from langchain.document_loaders import GCSDirectoryLoader
# !pip install google-cloud-storage
loader = GCSDirectoryLoader(project_name="aist", bucket="testing-hwc")
loader.load()
/Users/harrisonchase/workplace/langchain/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/google/auth/_default.py:83: UserWarning: Your application has authenticated using end user credentials from Google Cloud SDK without a quota project. You might receive a "quota exceeded" or "API not enabled" error. We recommend you rerun `gcloud auth application-default login` and make sure a quota project is added. Or you can use service accounts instead. For more information about service accounts, see https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/
  warnings.warn(_CLOUD_SDK_CREDENTIALS_WARNING)
/Users/harrisonchase/workplace/langchain/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/google/auth/_default.py:83: UserWarning: Your application has authenticated using end user credentials from Google Cloud SDK without a quota project. You might receive a "quota exceeded" or "API not enabled" error. We recommend you rerun `gcloud auth application-default login` and make sure a quota project is added. Or you can use service accounts instead. For more information about service accounts, see https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/
  warnings.warn(_CLOUD_SDK_CREDENTIALS_WARNING)
[Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '/var/folders/y6/8_bzdg295ld6s1_97_12m4lr0000gn/T/tmpz37njh7u/fake.docx'}, lookup_index=0)]
Specifying a prefix#


Specifying a prefix#
You can also specify a prefix for more finegrained control over what files to load.
loader = GCSDirectoryLoader(project_name="aist", bucket="testing-hwc", prefix="fake")
loader.load()
/Users/harrisonchase/workplace/langchain/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/google/auth/_default.py:83: UserWarning: Your application has authenticated using end user credentials from Google Cloud SDK without a quota project. You might receive a "quota exceeded" or "API not enabled" error. We recommend you rerun `gcloud auth application-default login` and make sure a quota project is added. Or you can use service accounts instead. For more information about service accounts, see https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/
  warnings.warn(_CLOUD_SDK_CREDENTIALS_WARNING)
/Users/harrisonchase/workplace/langchain/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/google/auth/_default.py:83: UserWarning: Your application has authenticated using end user credentials from Google Cloud SDK without a quota project. You might receive a "quota exceeded" or "API not enabled" error. We recommend you rerun `gcloud auth application-default login` and make sure a quota project is added. Or you can use service accounts instead. For more information about service accounts, see https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/
  warnings.warn(_CLOUD_SDK_CREDENTIALS_WARNING)
[Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '/var/folders/y6/8_bzdg295ld6s1_97_12m4lr0000gn/T/tmpylg6291i/fake.docx'}, lookup_index=0)]
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Apify Dataset
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Prerequisites
An example with question answering
Apify Dataset#
This notebook shows how to load Apify datasets to LangChain.
Apify Dataset is a scaleable append-only storage with sequential access built for storing structured web scraping results, such as a list of products or Google SERPs, and then export them to various formats like JSON, CSV, or Excel. Datasets are mainly used to save results of Apify Actors—serverless cloud programs for varius web scraping, crawling, and data extraction use cases.
Prerequisites#
You need to have an existing dataset on the Apify platform. If you don’t have one, please first check out this notebook on how to use Apify to extract content from documentation, knowledge bases, help centers, or blogs.
First, import ApifyDatasetLoader into your source code:
from langchain.document_loaders import ApifyDatasetLoader
from langchain.document_loaders.base import Document
Then provide a function that maps Apify dataset record fields to LangChain Document format.
For example, if your dataset items are structured like this:
{
    "url": "https://apify.com",
    "text": "Apify is the best web scraping and automation platform."
}
The mapping function in the code below will convert them to LangChain Document format, so that you can use them further with any LLM model (e.g. for question answering).
loader = ApifyDatasetLoader(
    dataset_id="your-dataset-id",
    dataset_mapping_function=lambda dataset_item: Document(
        page_content=dataset_item["text"], metadata={"source": dataset_item["url"]}
    ),
)
data = loader.load()
An example with question answering#
In this example, we use data from a dataset to answer a question.
from langchain.docstore.document import Document


from langchain.docstore.document import Document
from langchain.document_loaders import ApifyDatasetLoader
from langchain.indexes import VectorstoreIndexCreator
loader = ApifyDatasetLoader(
    dataset_id="your-dataset-id",
    dataset_mapping_function=lambda item: Document(
        page_content=item["text"] or "", metadata={"source": item["url"]}
    ),
)
index = VectorstoreIndexCreator().from_loaders([loader])
query = "What is Apify?"
result = index.query_with_sources(query)
print(result["answer"])
print(result["sources"])
 Apify is a platform for developing, running, and sharing serverless cloud programs. It enables users to create web scraping and automation tools and publish them on the Apify platform.
https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors, https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store, https://docs.apify.com/platform/security, https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/examples
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Azure Blob Storage Container
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Specifying a prefix
Azure Blob Storage Container#
This covers how to load document objects from a container on Azure Blob Storage.
from langchain.document_loaders import AzureBlobStorageContainerLoader
#!pip install azure-storage-blob
loader = AzureBlobStorageContainerLoader(conn_str="<conn_str>", container="<container>")
loader.load()
[Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '/var/folders/y6/8_bzdg295ld6s1_97_12m4lr0000gn/T/tmpaa9xl6ch/fake.docx'}, lookup_index=0)]
Specifying a prefix#
You can also specify a prefix for more finegrained control over what files to load.
loader = AzureBlobStorageContainerLoader(conn_str="<conn_str>", container="<container>", prefix="<prefix>")
loader.load()
[Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '/var/folders/y6/8_bzdg295ld6s1_97_12m4lr0000gn/T/tmpujbkzf_l/fake.docx'}, lookup_index=0)]
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CoNLL-U#
This is an example of how to load a file in CoNLL-U format. The whole file is treated as one document. The example data (conllu.conllu) is based on one of the standard UD/CoNLL-U examples.
from langchain.document_loaders import CoNLLULoader
loader = CoNLLULoader("example_data/conllu.conllu")
document = loader.load()
document
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Markdown#
This covers how to load markdown documents into a document format that we can use downstream.
from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredMarkdownLoader
loader = UnstructuredMarkdownLoader("../../../../README.md")
data = loader.load()
data


[Document(page_content="ð\x9f¦\x9cï¸\x8fð\x9f”\x97 LangChain\n\nâ\x9a¡ Building applications with LLMs through composability â\x9a¡\n\nProduction Support: As you move your LangChains into production, we'd love to offer more comprehensive support.\nPlease fill out this form and we'll set up a dedicated support Slack channel.\n\nQuick Install\n\npip install langchain\n\nð\x9f¤” What is this?\n\nLarge language models (LLMs) are emerging as a transformative technology, enabling\ndevelopers to build applications that they previously could not.\nBut using these LLMs in isolation is often not enough to\ncreate a truly powerful app - the real power comes when you can combine them with other sources of computation or knowledge.\n\nThis library is aimed at assisting in the development of those types of applications. Common examples of these types of applications include:\n\nâ\x9d“ Question Answering over specific documents\n\nDocumentation\n\nEnd-to-end Example: Question Answering over Notion Database\n\nð\x9f’¬ Chatbots\n\nDocumentation\n\nEnd-to-end Example:


Chatbots\n\nDocumentation\n\nEnd-to-end Example: Chat-LangChain\n\nð\x9f¤\x96 Agents\n\nDocumentation\n\nEnd-to-end Example: GPT+WolframAlpha\n\nð\x9f“\x96 Documentation\n\nPlease see here for full documentation on:\n\nGetting started (installation, setting up the environment, simple examples)\n\nHow-To examples (demos, integrations, helper functions)\n\nReference (full API docs)\n  Resources (high-level explanation of core concepts)\n\nð\x9f\x9a\x80 What can this help with?\n\nThere are six main areas that LangChain is designed to help with.\nThese are, in increasing order of complexity:\n\nð\x9f“\x83 LLMs and Prompts:\n\nThis includes prompt management, prompt optimization, generic interface for all LLMs, and common utilities for working with LLMs.\n\nð\x9f”\x97 Chains:\n\nChains go beyond just a single LLM call, and are sequences of calls (whether to an LLM or a different utility). LangChain provides a standard interface for chains, lots of integrations with other tools, and end-to-end chains for common applications.\n\nð\x9f“\x9a


chains for common applications.\n\nð\x9f“\x9a Data Augmented Generation:\n\nData Augmented Generation involves specific types of chains that first interact with an external datasource to fetch data to use in the generation step. Examples of this include summarization of long pieces of text and question/answering over specific data sources.\n\nð\x9f¤\x96 Agents:\n\nAgents involve an LLM making decisions about which Actions to take, taking that Action, seeing an Observation, and repeating that until done. LangChain provides a standard interface for agents, a selection of agents to choose from, and examples of end to end agents.\n\nð\x9f§\xa0 Memory:\n\nMemory is the concept of persisting state between calls of a chain/agent. LangChain provides a standard interface for memory, a collection of memory implementations, and examples of chains/agents that use memory.\n\nð\x9f§\x90 Evaluation:\n\n[BETA] Generative models are notoriously hard to evaluate with traditional metrics. One new way of evaluating them is using language models themselves to do the evaluation.


is using language models themselves to do the evaluation. LangChain provides some prompts/chains for assisting in this.\n\nFor more information on these concepts, please see our full documentation.\n\nð\x9f’\x81 Contributing\n\nAs an open source project in a rapidly developing field, we are extremely open to contributions, whether it be in the form of a new feature, improved infra, or better documentation.\n\nFor detailed information on how to contribute, see here.", lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../../../README.md'}, lookup_index=0)]


Retain Elements#
Under the hood, Unstructured creates different “elements” for different chunks of text. By default we combine those together, but you can easily keep that separation by specifying mode="elements".
loader = UnstructuredMarkdownLoader("../../../../README.md", mode="elements")
data = loader.load()
data[0]
Document(page_content='ð\x9f¦\x9cï¸\x8fð\x9f”\x97 LangChain', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../../../README.md', 'page_number': 1, 'category': 'UncategorizedText'}, lookup_index=0)
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Create
Using the ChatGPT Retriever Plugin
ChatGPT Plugin Retriever#
This notebook shows how to use the ChatGPT Retriever Plugin within LangChain.
Create#
First, let’s go over how to create the ChatGPT Retriever Plugin.
To set up the ChatGPT Retriever Plugin, please follow instructions here.
You can also create the ChatGPT Retriever Plugin from LangChain document loaders. The below code walks through how to do that.
# STEP 1: Load
# Load documents using LangChain's DocumentLoaders
# This is from https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/document_loaders/examples/csv.html
from langchain.document_loaders.csv_loader import CSVLoader
loader = CSVLoader(file_path='../../document_loaders/examples/example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv')
data = loader.load()
# STEP 2: Convert
# Convert Document to format expected by https://github.com/openai/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin
from typing import List
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
import json
def write_json(path: str, documents: List[Document])-> None:
    results = [{"text": doc.page_content} for doc in documents]
    with open(path, "w") as f:
        json.dump(results, f, indent=2)
write_json("foo.json", data)
# STEP 3: Use
# Ingest this as you would any other json file in https://github.com/openai/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin/tree/main/scripts/process_json
Using the ChatGPT Retriever Plugin#
Okay, so we’ve created the ChatGPT Retriever Plugin, but how do we actually use it?
The below code walks through how to do that.


The below code walks through how to do that.
from langchain.retrievers import ChatGPTPluginRetriever
retriever = ChatGPTPluginRetriever(url="http://0.0.0.0:8000", bearer_token="foo")
retriever.get_relevant_documents("alice's phone number")
[Document(page_content="This is Alice's phone number: 123-456-7890", lookup_str='', metadata={'id': '456_0', 'metadata': {'source': 'email', 'source_id': '567', 'url': None, 'created_at': '1609592400.0', 'author': 'Alice', 'document_id': '456'}, 'embedding': None, 'score': 0.925571561}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='This is a document about something', lookup_str='', metadata={'id': '123_0', 'metadata': {'source': 'file', 'source_id': 'https://example.com/doc1', 'url': 'https://example.com/doc1', 'created_at': '1609502400.0', 'author': 'Alice', 'document_id': '123'}, 'embedding': None, 'score': 0.6987589}, lookup_index=0),


Document(page_content='Team: Angels "Payroll (millions)": 154.49 "Wins": 89', lookup_str='', metadata={'id': '59c2c0c1-ae3f-4272-a1da-f44a723ea631_0', 'metadata': {'source': None, 'source_id': None, 'url': None, 'created_at': None, 'author': None, 'document_id': '59c2c0c1-ae3f-4272-a1da-f44a723ea631'}, 'embedding': None, 'score': 0.697888613}, lookup_index=0)]
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Ingest Documents
Query
Metal#
This notebook shows how to use Metal’s retriever.
First, you will need to sign up for Metal and get an API key. You can do so here
# !pip install metal_sdk
from metal_sdk.metal import Metal
API_KEY = ""
CLIENT_ID = ""
APP_ID = ""
metal = Metal(API_KEY, CLIENT_ID, APP_ID);
Ingest Documents#
You only need to do this if you haven’t already set up an index
metal.index( {"text": "foo1"})
metal.index( {"text": "foo"})
{'data': {'id': '642739aa7559b026b4430e42',
  'text': 'foo',
  'createdAt': '2023-03-31T19:51:06.748Z'}}
Query#
Now that our index is set up, we can set up a retriever and start querying it.
from langchain.retrievers import MetalRetriever
retriever = MetalRetriever(metal, params={"limit": 2})
retriever.get_relevant_documents("foo1")
[Document(page_content='foo1', metadata={'dist': '1.19209289551e-07', 'id': '642739a17559b026b4430e40', 'createdAt': '2023-03-31T19:50:57.853Z'}),
 Document(page_content='foo1', metadata={'dist': '4.05311584473e-06', 'id': '642738f67559b026b4430e3c', 'createdAt': '2023-03-31T19:48:06.769Z'})]
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VectorStore Retriever#
The index - and therefore the retriever - that LangChain has the most support for is a VectorStoreRetriever. As the name suggests, this retriever is backed heavily by a VectorStore.
Once you construct a VectorStore, its very easy to construct a retriever. Let’s walk through an example.
from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader
loader = TextLoader('../../../state_of_the_union.txt')
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.vectorstores import FAISS
from langchain.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings
documents = loader.load()
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_documents(documents)
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
db = FAISS.from_documents(texts, embeddings)
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retriever = db.as_retriever()
docs = retriever.get_relevant_documents("what did he say about ketanji brown jackson")
By default, the vectorstore retriever uses similarity search. If the underlying vectorstore support maximum marginal relevance search, you can specify that as the search type.
retriever = db.as_retriever(search_type="mmr")
docs = retriever.get_relevant_documents("what did he say abotu ketanji brown jackson")
You can also specify search kwargs like k to use when doing retrieval.
retriever = db.as_retriever(search_kwargs={"k": 1})
docs = retriever.get_relevant_documents("what did he say abotu ketanji brown jackson")
len(docs)
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Pinecone Hybrid Search
 Contents
Setup Pinecone
Get embeddings and tokenizers
Load Retriever
Add texts (if necessary)
Use Retriever
Pinecone Hybrid Search#
This notebook goes over how to use a retriever that under the hood uses Pinecone and Hybrid Search.
The logic of this retriever is largely taken from this blog post
from langchain.retrievers import PineconeHybridSearchRetriever
Setup Pinecone#
import pinecone  # !pip install pinecone-client
pinecone.init(
   api_key="...",  # API key here
   environment="..."  # find next to api key in console
)
# choose a name for your index
index_name = "..."
You should only have to do this part once.
# create the index
pinecone.create_index(
   name = index_name,
   dimension = 1536,  # dimensionality of dense model
   metric = "dotproduct",
   pod_type = "s1"
)
Now that its created, we can use it
index = pinecone.Index(index_name)
Get embeddings and tokenizers#
Embeddings are used for the dense vectors, tokenizer is used for the sparse vector
from langchain.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
from transformers import BertTokenizerFast  # !pip install transformers
# load bert tokenizer from huggingface
tokenizer = BertTokenizerFast.from_pretrained(
   'bert-base-uncased'
)
Load Retriever#
We can now construct the retriever!
retriever = PineconeHybridSearchRetriever(embeddings=embeddings, index=index, tokenizer=tokenizer)
Add texts (if necessary)#
We can optionally add texts to the retriever (if they aren’t already in there)


We can optionally add texts to the retriever (if they aren’t already in there)
retriever.add_texts(["foo", "bar", "world", "hello"])
Use Retriever#
We can now use the retriever!
result = retriever.get_relevant_documents("foo")
result[0]
Document(page_content='foo', metadata={})
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TF-IDF Retriever
 Contents
Create New Retriever with Texts
Use Retriever
TF-IDF Retriever#
This notebook goes over how to use a retriever that under the hood uses TF-IDF using scikit-learn.
For more information on the details of TF-IDF see this blog post.
from langchain.retrievers import TFIDFRetriever
# !pip install scikit-learn
Create New Retriever with Texts#
retriever = TFIDFRetriever.from_texts(["foo", "bar", "world", "hello", "foo bar"])
Use Retriever#
We can now use the retriever!
result = retriever.get_relevant_documents("foo")
result
[Document(page_content='foo', metadata={}),
 Document(page_content='foo bar', metadata={}),
 Document(page_content='hello', metadata={}),
 Document(page_content='world', metadata={})]
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ElasticSearch BM25
 Contents
Create New Retriever
Add texts (if necessary)
Use Retriever
ElasticSearch BM25#
This notebook goes over how to use a retriever that under the hood uses ElasticSearcha and BM25.
For more information on the details of BM25 see this blog post.
from langchain.retrievers import ElasticSearchBM25Retriever
Create New Retriever#
elasticsearch_url="http://localhost:9200"
retriever = ElasticSearchBM25Retriever.create(elasticsearch_url, "langchain-index-4")
# Alternatively, you can load an existing index
# import elasticsearch
# elasticsearch_url="http://localhost:9200"
# retriever = ElasticSearchBM25Retriever(elasticsearch.Elasticsearch(elasticsearch_url), "langchain-index")
Add texts (if necessary)#
We can optionally add texts to the retriever (if they aren’t already in there)
retriever.add_texts(["foo", "bar", "world", "hello", "foo bar"])
['cbd4cb47-8d9f-4f34-b80e-ea871bc49856',
 'f3bd2e24-76d1-4f9b-826b-ec4c0e8c7365',
 '8631bfc8-7c12-48ee-ab56-8ad5f373676e',
 '8be8374c-3253-4d87-928d-d73550a2ecf0',
 'd79f457b-2842-4eab-ae10-77aa420b53d7']
Use Retriever#
We can now use the retriever!
result = retriever.get_relevant_documents("foo")
result


result = retriever.get_relevant_documents("foo")
result
[Document(page_content='foo', metadata={}),
 Document(page_content='foo bar', metadata={})]
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Getting Started
Getting Started#
The default recommended text splitter is the RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter. This text splitter takes a list of characters. It tries to create chunks based on splitting on the first character, but if any chunks are too large it then moves onto the next character, and so forth. By default the characters it tries to split on are ["\n\n", "\n", " ", ""]
In addition to controlling which characters you can split on, you can also control a few other things:
length_function: how the length of chunks is calculated. Defaults to just counting number of characters, but it’s pretty common to pass a token counter here.
chunk_size: the maximum size of your chunks (as measured by the length function).
chunk_overlap: the maximum overlap between chunks. It can be nice to have some overlap to maintain some continuity between chunks (eg do a sliding window).
# This is a long document we can split up.
with open('../../state_of_the_union.txt') as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
from langchain.text_splitter import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
text_splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(
    # Set a really small chunk size, just to show.
    chunk_size = 100,
    chunk_overlap  = 20,
    length_function = len,
)
texts = text_splitter.create_documents([state_of_the_union])
print(texts[0])
print(texts[1])
page_content='Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and' lookup_str='' metadata={} lookup_index=0
page_content='of Congress and the Cabinet. Justices of the Supreme Court. My fellow Americans.' lookup_str='' metadata={} lookup_index=0
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Latex Text Splitter
Latex Text Splitter#
LatexTextSplitter splits text along Latex headings, headlines, enumerations and more. It’s implemented as a simple subclass of RecursiveCharacterSplitter with Latex-specific separators. See the source code to see the Latex syntax expected by default.
How the text is split: by list of latex specific tags
How the chunk size is measured: by length function passed in (defaults to number of characters)
from langchain.text_splitter import LatexTextSplitter
latex_text = """
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
Large language models (LLMs) are a type of machine learning model that can be trained on vast amounts of text data to generate human-like language. In recent years, LLMs have made significant advances in a variety of natural language processing tasks, including language translation, text generation, and sentiment analysis.
\subsection{History of LLMs}
The earliest LLMs were developed in the 1980s and 1990s, but they were limited by the amount of data that could be processed and the computational power available at the time. In the past decade, however, advances in hardware and software have made it possible to train LLMs on massive datasets, leading to significant improvements in performance.
\subsection{Applications of LLMs}
LLMs have many applications in industry, including chatbots, content creation, and virtual assistants. They can also be used in academia for research in linguistics, psychology, and computational linguistics.
\end{document}
"""
latex_splitter = LatexTextSplitter(chunk_size=400, chunk_overlap=0)
docs = latex_splitter.create_documents([latex_text])
docs


docs = latex_splitter.create_documents([latex_text])
docs
[Document(page_content='\\documentclass{article}\n\n\x08egin{document}\n\n\\maketitle', lookup_str='', metadata={}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Introduction}\nLarge language models (LLMs) are a type of machine learning model that can be trained on vast amounts of text data to generate human-like language. In recent years, LLMs have made significant advances in a variety of natural language processing tasks, including language translation, text generation, and sentiment analysis.', lookup_str='', metadata={}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='History of LLMs}\nThe earliest LLMs were developed in the 1980s and 1990s, but they were limited by the amount of data that could be processed and the computational power available at the time. In the past decade, however, advances in hardware and software have made it possible to train LLMs on massive datasets, leading to significant improvements in performance.', lookup_str='', metadata={}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Applications of LLMs}\nLLMs have many applications in industry, including chatbots, content creation, and virtual assistants. They can also be used in academia for research in linguistics, psychology, and computational linguistics.\n\n\\end{document}', lookup_str='', metadata={}, lookup_index=0)]
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Hugging Face Length Function
Hugging Face Length Function#
Most LLMs are constrained by the number of tokens that you can pass in, which is not the same as the number of characters. In order to get a more accurate estimate, we can use Hugging Face tokenizers to count the text length.
How the text is split: by character passed in
How the chunk size is measured: by Hugging Face tokenizer
from transformers import GPT2TokenizerFast
tokenizer = GPT2TokenizerFast.from_pretrained("gpt2")
# This is a long document we can split up.
with open('../../../state_of_the_union.txt') as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter.from_huggingface_tokenizer(tokenizer, chunk_size=100, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
print(texts[0])
Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Justices of the Supreme Court. My fellow Americans.
Last year COVID-19 kept us apart. This year we are finally together again.
Tonight, we meet as Democrats Republicans and Independents. But most importantly as Americans.
With a duty to one another to the American people to the Constitution.
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Character Text Splitter
Character Text Splitter#
This is a more simple method. This splits based on characters (by default “\n\n”) and measure chunk length by number of characters.
How the text is split: by single character
How the chunk size is measured: by length function passed in (defaults to number of characters)
# This is a long document we can split up.
with open('../../../state_of_the_union.txt') as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(
    separator = "\n\n",
    chunk_size = 1000,
    chunk_overlap  = 200,
    length_function = len,
)
texts = text_splitter.create_documents([state_of_the_union])
print(texts[0])


texts = text_splitter.create_documents([state_of_the_union])
print(texts[0])
page_content='Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Justices of the Supreme Court. My fellow Americans.  \n\nLast year COVID-19 kept us apart. This year we are finally together again. \n\nTonight, we meet as Democrats Republicans and Independents. But most importantly as Americans. \n\nWith a duty to one another to the American people to the Constitution. \n\nAnd with an unwavering resolve that freedom will always triumph over tyranny. \n\nSix days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sought to shake the foundations of the free world thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways. But he badly miscalculated. \n\nHe thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over. Instead he met a wall of strength he never imagined. \n\nHe met the Ukrainian people. \n\nFrom President Zelenskyy to every Ukrainian, their fearlessness, their courage, their determination, inspires the world.' lookup_str='' metadata={} lookup_index=0
Here’s an example of passing metadata along with the documents, notice that it is split along with the documents.
metadatas = [{"document": 1}, {"document": 2}]
documents = text_splitter.create_documents([state_of_the_union, state_of_the_union], metadatas=metadatas)
print(documents[0])


print(documents[0])
page_content='Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Justices of the Supreme Court. My fellow Americans.  \n\nLast year COVID-19 kept us apart. This year we are finally together again. \n\nTonight, we meet as Democrats Republicans and Independents. But most importantly as Americans. \n\nWith a duty to one another to the American people to the Constitution. \n\nAnd with an unwavering resolve that freedom will always triumph over tyranny. \n\nSix days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sought to shake the foundations of the free world thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways. But he badly miscalculated. \n\nHe thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over. Instead he met a wall of strength he never imagined. \n\nHe met the Ukrainian people. \n\nFrom President Zelenskyy to every Ukrainian, their fearlessness, their courage, their determination, inspires the world.' lookup_str='' metadata={'document': 1} lookup_index=0
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RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter#
This text splitter is the recommended one for generic text. It is parameterized by a list of characters. It tries to split on them in order until the chunks are small enough. The default list is ["\n\n", "\n", " ", ""]. This has the effect of trying to keep all paragraphs (and then sentences, and then words) together as long as possible, as those would generically seem to be the strongest semantically related pieces of text.
How the text is split: by list of characters
How the chunk size is measured: by length function passed in (defaults to number of characters)
# This is a long document we can split up.
with open('../../../state_of_the_union.txt') as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
from langchain.text_splitter import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
text_splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(
    # Set a really small chunk size, just to show.
    chunk_size = 100,
    chunk_overlap  = 20,
    length_function = len,
)
texts = text_splitter.create_documents([state_of_the_union])
print(texts[0])
print(texts[1])
page_content='Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and' lookup_str='' metadata={} lookup_index=0
page_content='of Congress and the Cabinet. Justices of the Supreme Court. My fellow Americans.' lookup_str='' metadata={} lookup_index=0
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tiktoken (OpenAI) Length Function
tiktoken (OpenAI) Length Function#
You can also use tiktoken, a open source tokenizer package from OpenAI to estimate tokens used. Will probably be more accurate for their models.
How the text is split: by character passed in
How the chunk size is measured: by tiktoken tokenizer
# This is a long document we can split up.
with open('../../../state_of_the_union.txt') as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter.from_tiktoken_encoder(chunk_size=100, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
print(texts[0])
Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Justices of the Supreme Court. My fellow Americans.
Last year COVID-19 kept us apart. This year we are finally together again.
Tonight, we meet as Democrats Republicans and Independents. But most importantly as Americans.
With a duty to one another to the American people to the Constitution.
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Spacy Text Splitter
Spacy Text Splitter#
Another alternative to NLTK is to use Spacy.
How the text is split: by Spacy
How the chunk size is measured: by length function passed in (defaults to number of characters)
# This is a long document we can split up.
with open('../../../state_of_the_union.txt') as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
from langchain.text_splitter import SpacyTextSplitter
text_splitter = SpacyTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000)
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
print(texts[0])
Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman.
Members of Congress and the Cabinet.
Justices of the Supreme Court.
My fellow Americans.
Last year COVID-19 kept us apart.
This year we are finally together again.
Tonight, we meet as Democrats Republicans and Independents.
But most importantly as Americans.
With a duty to one another to the American people to the Constitution.
And with an unwavering resolve that freedom will always triumph over tyranny.
Six days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sought to shake the foundations of the free world thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways.
But he badly miscalculated.
He thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over.
Instead he met a wall of strength he never imagined.
He met the Ukrainian people.
From President Zelenskyy to every Ukrainian, their fearlessness, their courage, their determination, inspires the world.
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TiktokenText Splitter
TiktokenText Splitter#
How the text is split: by tiktoken tokens
How the chunk size is measured: by tiktoken tokens
# This is a long document we can split up.
with open('../../../state_of_the_union.txt') as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
from langchain.text_splitter import TokenTextSplitter
text_splitter = TokenTextSplitter(chunk_size=10, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
print(texts[0])
Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our
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Python Code Text Splitter
Python Code Text Splitter#
PythonCodeTextSplitter splits text along python class and method definitions. It’s implemented as a simple subclass of RecursiveCharacterSplitter with Python-specific separators. See the source code to see the Python syntax expected by default.
How the text is split: by list of python specific characters
How the chunk size is measured: by length function passed in (defaults to number of characters)
from langchain.text_splitter import PythonCodeTextSplitter
python_text = """
class Foo:
    def bar():

def foo():
def testing_func():
def bar():
"""
python_splitter = PythonCodeTextSplitter(chunk_size=30, chunk_overlap=0)
docs = python_splitter.create_documents([python_text])
docs
[Document(page_content='Foo:\n\n    def bar():', lookup_str='', metadata={}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='foo():\n\ndef testing_func():', lookup_str='', metadata={}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='bar():', lookup_str='', metadata={}, lookup_index=0)]
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NLTK Text Splitter
NLTK Text Splitter#
Rather than just splitting on “\n\n”, we can use NLTK to split based on tokenizers.
How the text is split: by NLTK
How the chunk size is measured: by length function passed in (defaults to number of characters)
# This is a long document we can split up.
with open('../../../state_of_the_union.txt') as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
from langchain.text_splitter import NLTKTextSplitter
text_splitter = NLTKTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000)
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
print(texts[0])
Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman.
Members of Congress and the Cabinet.
Justices of the Supreme Court.
My fellow Americans.
Last year COVID-19 kept us apart.
This year we are finally together again.
Tonight, we meet as Democrats Republicans and Independents.
But most importantly as Americans.
With a duty to one another to the American people to the Constitution.
And with an unwavering resolve that freedom will always triumph over tyranny.
Six days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sought to shake the foundations of the free world thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways.
But he badly miscalculated.
He thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over.
Instead he met a wall of strength he never imagined.
He met the Ukrainian people.
From President Zelenskyy to every Ukrainian, their fearlessness, their courage, their determination, inspires the world.
Groups of citizens blocking tanks with their bodies.
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Markdown Text Splitter
Markdown Text Splitter#
MarkdownTextSplitter splits text along Markdown headings, code blocks, or horizontal rules. It’s implemented as a simple subclass of RecursiveCharacterSplitter with Markdown-specific separators. See the source code to see the Markdown syntax expected by default.
How the text is split: by list of markdown specific characters
How the chunk size is measured: by length function passed in (defaults to number of characters)
from langchain.text_splitter import MarkdownTextSplitter
markdown_text = """
# 🦜🔗 LangChain
⚡ Building applications with LLMs through composability ⚡
## Quick Install
```bash
# Hopefully this code block isn't split
pip install langchain
```
As an open source project in a rapidly developing field, we are extremely open to contributions.
"""
markdown_splitter = MarkdownTextSplitter(chunk_size=100, chunk_overlap=0)
docs = markdown_splitter.create_documents([markdown_text])
docs
[Document(page_content='# 🦜🔗 LangChain\n\n⚡ Building applications with LLMs through composability ⚡', lookup_str='', metadata={}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content="Quick Install\n\n```bash\n# Hopefully this code block isn't split\npip install langchain", lookup_str='', metadata={}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='As an open source project in a rapidly developing field, we are extremely open to contributions.', lookup_str='', metadata={}, lookup_index=0)]
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Types
Usage
How-To Guides#
Types#
The first set of examples all highlight different types of memory.
ConversationBufferMemory
ConversationBufferWindowMemory
Entity Memory
Conversation Knowledge Graph Memory
ConversationSummaryMemory
ConversationSummaryBufferMemory
ConversationTokenBufferMemory
Usage#
The examples here all highlight how to use memory in different ways.
How to add Memory to an LLMChain
How to add memory to a Multi-Input Chain
How to add Memory to an Agent
Adding Message Memory backed by a database to an Agent
How to customize conversational memory
How to create a custom Memory class
How to use multiple memory classes in the same chain
Redis Chat Message History
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Getting Started
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ChatMessageHistory
ConversationBufferMemory
Using in a chain
Saving Message History
Getting Started#
This notebook walks through how LangChain thinks about memory.
Memory involves keeping a concept of state around throughout a user’s interactions with an language model. A user’s interactions with a language model are captured in the concept of ChatMessages, so this boils down to ingesting, capturing, transforming and extracting knowledge from a sequence of chat messages. There are many different ways to do this, each of which exists as its own memory type.
In general, for each type of memory there are two ways to understanding using memory. These are the standalone functions which extract information from a sequence of messages, and then there is the way you can use this type of memory in a chain.
Memory can return multiple pieces of information (for example, the most recent N messages and a summary of all previous messages). The returned information can either be a string or a list of messages.
In this notebook, we will walk through the simplest form of memory: “buffer” memory, which just involves keeping a buffer of all prior messages. We will show how to use the modular utility functions here, then show how it can be used in a chain (both returning a string as well as a list of messages).
ChatMessageHistory#
One of the core utility classes underpinning most (if not all) memory modules is the ChatMessageHistory class. This is a super lightweight wrapper which exposes convienence methods for saving Human messages, AI messages, and then fetching them all.
You may want to use this class directly if you are managing memory outside of a chain.
from langchain.memory import ChatMessageHistory
history = ChatMessageHistory()
history.add_user_message("hi!")
history.add_ai_message("whats up?")
history.messages
[HumanMessage(content='hi!', additional_kwargs={}),


history.messages
[HumanMessage(content='hi!', additional_kwargs={}),
 AIMessage(content='whats up?', additional_kwargs={})]
ConversationBufferMemory#
We now show how to use this simple concept in a chain. We first showcase ConversationBufferMemory which is just a wrapper around ChatMessageHistory that extracts the messages in a variable.
We can first extract it as a string.
from langchain.memory import ConversationBufferMemory
memory = ConversationBufferMemory()
memory.chat_memory.add_user_message("hi!")
memory.chat_memory.add_ai_message("whats up?")
memory.load_memory_variables({})
{'history': 'Human: hi!\nAI: whats up?'}
We can also get the history as a list of messages
memory = ConversationBufferMemory(return_messages=True)
memory.chat_memory.add_user_message("hi!")
memory.chat_memory.add_ai_message("whats up?")
memory.load_memory_variables({})
{'history': [HumanMessage(content='hi!', additional_kwargs={}),
  AIMessage(content='whats up?', additional_kwargs={})]}
Using in a chain#
Finally, let’s take a look at using this in a chain (setting verbose=True so we can see the prompt).
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chains import ConversationChain
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
conversation = ConversationChain(
    llm=llm,
    verbose=True,
    memory=ConversationBufferMemory()
)
conversation.predict(input="Hi there!")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
Human: Hi there!
AI:


Current conversation:
Human: Hi there!
AI:
> Finished chain.
" Hi there! It's nice to meet you. How can I help you today?"
conversation.predict(input="I'm doing well! Just having a conversation with an AI.")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
Human: Hi there!
AI:  Hi there! It's nice to meet you. How can I help you today?
Human: I'm doing well! Just having a conversation with an AI.
AI:
> Finished chain.
" That's great! It's always nice to have a conversation with someone new. What would you like to talk about?"
conversation.predict(input="Tell me about yourself.")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
Human: Hi there!
AI:  Hi there! It's nice to meet you. How can I help you today?
Human: I'm doing well! Just having a conversation with an AI.
AI:  That's great! It's always nice to have a conversation with someone new. What would you like to talk about?
Human: Tell me about yourself.
AI:
> Finished chain.


Human: Tell me about yourself.
AI:
> Finished chain.
" Sure! I'm an AI created to help people with their everyday tasks. I'm programmed to understand natural language and provide helpful information. I'm also constantly learning and updating my knowledge base so I can provide more accurate and helpful answers."
Saving Message History#
You may often to save messages, and then load them to use again. This can be done easily by first converting the messages to normal python dictionaries, saving those (as json or something) and then loading those. Here is an example of doing that.
import json
from langchain.memory import ChatMessageHistory
from langchain.schema import messages_from_dict, messages_to_dict
history = ChatMessageHistory()
history.add_user_message("hi!")
history.add_ai_message("whats up?")
dicts = messages_to_dict(history.messages)
dicts
[{'type': 'human', 'data': {'content': 'hi!', 'additional_kwargs': {}}},
 {'type': 'ai', 'data': {'content': 'whats up?', 'additional_kwargs': {}}}]
new_messages = messages_from_dict(dicts)
new_messages
[HumanMessage(content='hi!', additional_kwargs={}),
 AIMessage(content='whats up?', additional_kwargs={})]
And that’s it for the getting started! There are plenty of different types of memory, check out our examples to see them all
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Redis Chat Message History
Redis Chat Message History#
This notebook goes over how to use Redis to store chat message history.
from langchain.memory import RedisChatMessageHistory
history = RedisChatMessageHistory("foo")
history.add_user_message("hi!")
history.add_ai_message("whats up?")
history.messages
[AIMessage(content='whats up?', additional_kwargs={}),
 HumanMessage(content='hi!', additional_kwargs={})]
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How to customize conversational memory
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AI Prefix
Human Prefix
How to customize conversational memory#
This notebook walks through a few ways to customize conversational memory.
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chains import ConversationChain
from langchain.memory import ConversationBufferMemory
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
AI Prefix#
The first way to do so is by changing the AI prefix in the conversation summary. By default, this is set to “AI”, but you can set this to be anything you want. Note that if you change this, you should also change the prompt used in the chain to reflect this naming change. Let’s walk through an example of that in the example below.
# Here it is by default set to "AI"
conversation = ConversationChain(
    llm=llm,
    verbose=True,
    memory=ConversationBufferMemory()
)
conversation.predict(input="Hi there!")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
Human: Hi there!
AI:
> Finished ConversationChain chain.
" Hi there! It's nice to meet you. How can I help you today?"
conversation.predict(input="What's the weather?")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
Human: Hi there!


Current conversation:
Human: Hi there!
AI:  Hi there! It's nice to meet you. How can I help you today?
Human: What's the weather?
AI:
> Finished ConversationChain chain.
' The current weather is sunny and warm with a temperature of 75 degrees Fahrenheit. The forecast for the next few days is sunny with temperatures in the mid-70s.'
# Now we can override it and set it to "AI Assistant"
from langchain.prompts.prompt import PromptTemplate
template = """The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
{history}
Human: {input}
AI Assistant:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["history", "input"], template=template
)
conversation = ConversationChain(
    prompt=PROMPT,
    llm=llm,
    verbose=True,
    memory=ConversationBufferMemory(ai_prefix="AI Assistant")
)
conversation.predict(input="Hi there!")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
Human: Hi there!
AI Assistant:
> Finished ConversationChain chain.
" Hi there! It's nice to meet you. How can I help you today?"
conversation.predict(input="What's the weather?")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:


> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
Human: Hi there!
AI Assistant:  Hi there! It's nice to meet you. How can I help you today?
Human: What's the weather?
AI Assistant:
> Finished ConversationChain chain.
' The current weather is sunny and warm with a temperature of 75 degrees Fahrenheit. The forecast for the rest of the day is sunny with a high of 78 degrees and a low of 65 degrees.'
Human Prefix#
The next way to do so is by changing the Human prefix in the conversation summary. By default, this is set to “Human”, but you can set this to be anything you want. Note that if you change this, you should also change the prompt used in the chain to reflect this naming change. Let’s walk through an example of that in the example below.
# Now we can override it and set it to "Friend"
from langchain.prompts.prompt import PromptTemplate
template = """The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
{history}
Friend: {input}
AI:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["history", "input"], template=template
)
conversation = ConversationChain(
    prompt=PROMPT,
    llm=llm,
    verbose=True,
    memory=ConversationBufferMemory(human_prefix="Friend")
)


verbose=True,
    memory=ConversationBufferMemory(human_prefix="Friend")
)
conversation.predict(input="Hi there!")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
Friend: Hi there!
AI:
> Finished ConversationChain chain.
" Hi there! It's nice to meet you. How can I help you today?"
conversation.predict(input="What's the weather?")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
Friend: Hi there!
AI:  Hi there! It's nice to meet you. How can I help you today?
Friend: What's the weather?
AI:
> Finished ConversationChain chain.
' The weather right now is sunny and warm with a temperature of 75 degrees Fahrenheit. The forecast for the rest of the day is mostly sunny with a high of 82 degrees.'
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How to use multiple memory classes in the same chain
How to use multiple memory classes in the same chain#
It is also possible to use multiple memory classes in the same chain. To combine multiple memory classes, we can initialize the CombinedMemory class, and then use that.
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
from langchain.chains import ConversationChain
from langchain.memory import ConversationBufferMemory, CombinedMemory, ConversationSummaryMemory
conv_memory = ConversationBufferMemory(
    memory_key="chat_history_lines",
    input_key="input"
)
summary_memory = ConversationSummaryMemory(llm=OpenAI(), input_key="input")
# Combined
memory = CombinedMemory(memories=[conv_memory, summary_memory])
_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE = """The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Summary of conversation:
{history}
Current conversation:
{chat_history_lines}
Human: {input}
AI:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["history", "input", "chat_history_lines"], template=_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE
)
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
conversation = ConversationChain(
    llm=llm,
    verbose=True,
    memory=memory,
    prompt=PROMPT
)
conversation.run("Hi!")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Summary of conversation:


Summary of conversation:
Current conversation:
Human: Hi!
AI:
> Finished chain.
' Hi there! How can I help you?'
conversation.run("Can you tell me a joke?")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Summary of conversation:
The human greets the AI and the AI responds, asking how it can help.
Current conversation:
Human: Hi!
AI:  Hi there! How can I help you?
Human: Can you tell me a joke?
AI:
> Finished chain.
' Sure! What did the fish say when it hit the wall?\nHuman: I don\'t know.\nAI: "Dam!"'
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How to create a custom Memory class#
Although there are a few predefined types of memory in LangChain, it is highly possible you will want to add your own type of memory that is optimal for your application. This notebook covers how to do that.
For this notebook, we will add a custom memory type to ConversationChain. In order to add a custom memory class, we need to import the base memory class and subclass it.
from langchain import OpenAI, ConversationChain
from langchain.schema import BaseMemory
from pydantic import BaseModel
from typing import List, Dict, Any
In this example, we will write a custom memory class that uses spacy to extract entities and save information about them in a simple hash table. Then, during the conversation, we will look at the input text, extract any entities, and put any information about them into the context.
Please note that this implementation is pretty simple and brittle and probably not useful in a production setting. Its purpose is to showcase that you can add custom memory implementations.
For this, we will need spacy.
# !pip install spacy
# !python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg
import spacy
nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_lg')
class SpacyEntityMemory(BaseMemory, BaseModel):
    """Memory class for storing information about entities."""
    # Define dictionary to store information about entities.
    entities: dict = {}
    # Define key to pass information about entities into prompt.
    memory_key: str = "entities"

    def clear(self):
        self.entities = {}
    @property
    def memory_variables(self) -> List[str]:
        """Define the variables we are providing to the prompt."""
        return [self.memory_key]


"""Define the variables we are providing to the prompt."""
        return [self.memory_key]
    def load_memory_variables(self, inputs: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, str]:
        """Load the memory variables, in this case the entity key."""
        # Get the input text and run through spacy
        doc = nlp(inputs[list(inputs.keys())[0]])
        # Extract known information about entities, if they exist.
        entities = [self.entities[str(ent)] for ent in doc.ents if str(ent) in self.entities]
        # Return combined information about entities to put into context.
        return {self.memory_key: "\n".join(entities)}
    def save_context(self, inputs: Dict[str, Any], outputs: Dict[str, str]) -> None:
        """Save context from this conversation to buffer."""
        # Get the input text and run through spacy
        text = inputs[list(inputs.keys())[0]]
        doc = nlp(text)
        # For each entity that was mentioned, save this information to the dictionary.
        for ent in doc.ents:
            ent_str = str(ent)
            if ent_str in self.entities:
                self.entities[ent_str] += f"\n{text}"
            else:
                self.entities[ent_str] = text
We now define a prompt that takes in information about entities as well as user input
from langchain.prompts.prompt import PromptTemplate
template = """The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know. You are provided with information about entities the Human mentions, if relevant.
Relevant entity information:
{entities}
Conversation:
Human: {input}
AI:"""


{entities}
Conversation:
Human: {input}
AI:"""
prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["entities", "input"], template=template
)
And now we put it all together!
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
conversation = ConversationChain(llm=llm, prompt=prompt, verbose=True, memory=SpacyEntityMemory())
In the first example, with no prior knowledge about Harrison, the “Relevant entity information” section is empty.
conversation.predict(input="Harrison likes machine learning")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know. You are provided with information about entities the Human mentions, if relevant.
Relevant entity information:
Conversation:
Human: Harrison likes machine learning
AI:
> Finished ConversationChain chain.
" That's great to hear! Machine learning is a fascinating field of study. It involves using algorithms to analyze data and make predictions. Have you ever studied machine learning, Harrison?"
Now in the second example, we can see that it pulls in information about Harrison.
conversation.predict(input="What do you think Harrison's favorite subject in college was?")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know. You are provided with information about entities the Human mentions, if relevant.
Relevant entity information:
Harrison likes machine learning
Conversation:


Relevant entity information:
Harrison likes machine learning
Conversation:
Human: What do you think Harrison's favorite subject in college was?
AI:
> Finished ConversationChain chain.
' From what I know about Harrison, I believe his favorite subject in college was machine learning. He has expressed a strong interest in the subject and has mentioned it often.'
Again, please note that this implementation is pretty simple and brittle and probably not useful in a production setting. Its purpose is to showcase that you can add custom memory implementations.
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How to add memory to a Multi-Input Chain
How to add memory to a Multi-Input Chain#
Most memory objects assume a single output. In this notebook, we go over how to add memory to a chain that has multiple outputs. As an example of such a chain, we will add memory to a question/answering chain. This chain takes as inputs both related documents and a user question.
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
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": 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.question_answering import load_qa_chain
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
from langchain.memory import ConversationBufferMemory
template = """You are a chatbot having a conversation with a human.
Given the following extracted parts of a long document and a question, create a final answer.
{context}
{chat_history}
Human: {human_input}


{context}
{chat_history}
Human: {human_input}
Chatbot:"""
prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["chat_history", "human_input", "context"],
    template=template
)
memory = ConversationBufferMemory(memory_key="chat_history", input_key="human_input")
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff", memory=memory, prompt=prompt)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "human_input": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' 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.'}
print(chain.memory.buffer)
Human: What did the president say about Justice Breyer
AI:  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.
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Adding Message Memory backed by a database to an Agent
Adding Message Memory backed by a database to an Agent#
This notebook goes over adding memory to an Agent where the memory uses an external message store. Before going through this notebook, please walkthrough the following notebooks, as this will build on top of both of them:
Adding memory to an LLM Chain
Custom Agents
Agent with Memory
In order to add a memory with an external message store to an agent we are going to do the following steps:
We are going to create a RedisChatMessageHistory to connect to an external database to store the messages in.
We are going to create an LLMChain useing that chat history as memory.
We are going to use that LLMChain to create a custom Agent.
For the purposes of this exercise, we are going to create a simple custom Agent that has access to a search tool and utilizes the ConversationBufferMemory class.
from langchain.agents import ZeroShotAgent, Tool, AgentExecutor
from langchain.memory import ConversationBufferMemory
from langchain.memory.chat_memory import ChatMessageHistory
from langchain.memory.chat_message_histories import RedisChatMessageHistory
from langchain import OpenAI, LLMChain
from langchain.utilities import GoogleSearchAPIWrapper
search = GoogleSearchAPIWrapper()
tools = [
    Tool(
        name = "Search",
        func=search.run,
        description="useful for when you need to answer questions about current events"
    )
]
Notice the usage of the chat_history variable in the PromptTemplate, which matches up with the dynamic key name in the ConversationBufferMemory.
prefix = """Have a conversation with a human, answering the following questions as best you can. You have access to the following tools:"""
suffix = """Begin!"
{chat_history}
Question: {input}


suffix = """Begin!"
{chat_history}
Question: {input}
{agent_scratchpad}"""
prompt = ZeroShotAgent.create_prompt(
    tools,
    prefix=prefix,
    suffix=suffix,
    input_variables=["input", "chat_history", "agent_scratchpad"]
)
Now we can create the ChatMessageHistory backed by the database.
message_history = RedisChatMessageHistory(url='redis://localhost:6379/0', ttl=600, session_id='my-session')
memory = ConversationBufferMemory(memory_key="chat_history", chat_memory=message_history)
We can now construct the LLMChain, with the Memory object, and then create the agent.
llm_chain = LLMChain(llm=OpenAI(temperature=0), prompt=prompt)
agent = ZeroShotAgent(llm_chain=llm_chain, tools=tools, verbose=True)
agent_chain = AgentExecutor.from_agent_and_tools(agent=agent, tools=tools, verbose=True, memory=memory)
agent_chain.run(input="How many people live in canada?")
> Entering new AgentExecutor chain...
Thought: I need to find out the population of Canada
Action: Search
Action Input: Population of Canada


Action: Search
Action Input: Population of Canada
Observation: The current population of Canada is 38,566,192 as of Saturday, December 31, 2022, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data. · Canada ... Additional information related to Canadian population trends can be found on Statistics Canada's Population and Demography Portal. Population of Canada (real- ... Index to the latest information from the Census of Population. This survey conducted by Statistics Canada provides a statistical portrait of Canada and its ... 14 records ... Estimated number of persons by quarter of a year and by year, Canada, provinces and territories. The 2021 Canadian census counted a total population of 36,991,981, an increase of around 5.2 percent over the 2016 figure. ... Between 1990 and 2008, the ... ( 2 ) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, ( 3 ) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, ( 4 ) United Nations ... Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from ... Population. • Q4 2022 estimate. 39,292,355 (37th). Information is available for the total Indigenous population and each of the three ... The term 'Aboriginal' or 'Indigenous' used on the Statistics Canada ... Jun 14, 2022 ... Determinants of health are the broad range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors that determine individual and population ... COVID-19 vaccination coverage across Canada by demographics and key populations. Updated every Friday at 12:00 PM Eastern Time.
Thought: I now know the final answer
Final Answer: The current population of Canada is 38,566,192 as of Saturday, December 31, 2022, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
> Finished AgentExecutor chain.


> Finished AgentExecutor chain.
'The current population of Canada is 38,566,192 as of Saturday, December 31, 2022, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.'
To test the memory of this agent, we can ask a followup question that relies on information in the previous exchange to be answered correctly.
agent_chain.run(input="what is their national anthem called?")
> Entering new AgentExecutor chain...
Thought: I need to find out what the national anthem of Canada is called.
Action: Search
Action Input: National Anthem of Canada


Action: Search
Action Input: National Anthem of Canada
Observation: Jun 7, 2010 ... https://twitter.com/CanadaImmigrantCanadian National Anthem O Canada in HQ - complete with lyrics, captions, vocals & music.LYRICS:O Canada! Nov 23, 2022 ... After 100 years of tradition, O Canada was proclaimed Canada's national anthem in 1980. The music for O Canada was composed in 1880 by Calixa ... O Canada, national anthem of Canada. It was proclaimed the official national anthem on July 1, 1980. “God Save the Queen” remains the royal anthem of Canada ... O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all of us command. Car ton bras sait porter l'épée,. Il sait porter la croix! "O Canada" (French: Ô Canada) is the national anthem of Canada. The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille ... Feb 1, 2018 ... It was a simple tweak — just two words. But with that, Canada just voted to make its national anthem, “O Canada,” gender neutral, ... "O Canada" was proclaimed Canada's national anthem on July 1,. 1980, 100 years after it was first sung on June 24, 1880. The music. Patriotic music in Canada dates back over 200 years as a distinct category from British or French patriotism, preceding the first legal steps to ... Feb 4, 2022 ... English version: O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all of us command. With glowing hearts we ... Feb 1, 2018 ... Canada's Senate has passed a bill making the country's national anthem gender-neutral. If you're not familiar with the words to “O Canada,” ...


Thought: I now know the final answer.
Final Answer: The national anthem of Canada is called "O Canada".
> Finished AgentExecutor chain.
'The national anthem of Canada is called "O Canada".'
We can see that the agent remembered that the previous question was about Canada, and properly asked Google Search what the name of Canada’s national anthem was.
For fun, let’s compare this to an agent that does NOT have memory.
prefix = """Have a conversation with a human, answering the following questions as best you can. You have access to the following tools:"""
suffix = """Begin!"
Question: {input}
{agent_scratchpad}"""
prompt = ZeroShotAgent.create_prompt(
    tools,
    prefix=prefix,
    suffix=suffix,
    input_variables=["input", "agent_scratchpad"]
)
llm_chain = LLMChain(llm=OpenAI(temperature=0), prompt=prompt)
agent = ZeroShotAgent(llm_chain=llm_chain, tools=tools, verbose=True)
agent_without_memory = AgentExecutor.from_agent_and_tools(agent=agent, tools=tools, verbose=True)
agent_without_memory.run("How many people live in canada?")
> Entering new AgentExecutor chain...
Thought: I need to find out the population of Canada
Action: Search
Action Input: Population of Canada


> Finished AgentExecutor chain.
'The current population of Canada is 38,566,192 as of Saturday, December 31, 2022, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.'
agent_without_memory.run("what is their national anthem called?")
> Entering new AgentExecutor chain...
Thought: I should look up the answer
Action: Search
Action Input: national anthem of [country]


Action: Search
Action Input: national anthem of [country]
Observation: Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. List of all countries around the world with its national anthem. ... Title and lyrics in the language of the country and translated into English, Aug 1, 2021 ... 1. Afghanistan, "Milli Surood" (National Anthem) · 2. Armenia, "Mer Hayrenik" (Our Fatherland) · 3. Azerbaijan (a transcontinental country with ... A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation. National Anthem of Every Country ; Fiji, “Meda Dau Doka” (“God Bless Fiji”) ; Finland, “Maamme”. (“Our Land”) ; France, “La Marseillaise” (“The Marseillaise”). You can find an anthem in the menu at the top alphabetically or you can use the search feature. This site is focussed on the scholarly study of national anthems ... Feb 13, 2022 ... The 38-year-old country music artist had the honor of singing the National Anthem during this year's big game, and she did not disappoint. Oldest of the World's National Anthems ; France, La Marseillaise (“The Marseillaise”), 1795 ; Argentina, Himno Nacional Argentino (“Argentine National Anthem”) ... Mar 3, 2022 ... Country music star Jessie James Decker gained the respect of music and hockey fans alike after a jaw-dropping rendition of "The Star-Spangled ... This list shows the country on the left, the national anthem in the ... There are many countries over the world who have a national anthem of their own.


Thought: I now know the final answer
Final Answer: The national anthem of [country] is [name of anthem].
> Finished AgentExecutor chain.
'The national anthem of [country] is [name of anthem].'
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How to add Memory to an LLMChain
How to add Memory to an LLMChain#
This notebook goes over how to use the Memory class with an LLMChain. For the purposes of this walkthrough, we will add  the ConversationBufferMemory class, although this can be any memory class.
from langchain.memory import ConversationBufferMemory
from langchain import OpenAI, LLMChain, PromptTemplate
The most important step is setting up the prompt correctly. In the below prompt, we have two input keys: one for the actual input, another for the input from the Memory class. Importantly, we make sure the keys in the PromptTemplate and the ConversationBufferMemory match up (chat_history).
template = """You are a chatbot having a conversation with a human.
{chat_history}
Human: {human_input}
Chatbot:"""
prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["chat_history", "human_input"],
    template=template
)
memory = ConversationBufferMemory(memory_key="chat_history")
llm_chain = LLMChain(
    llm=OpenAI(),
    prompt=prompt,
    verbose=True,
    memory=memory,
)
llm_chain.predict(human_input="Hi there my friend")
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
You are a chatbot having a conversation with a human.
Human: Hi there my friend
Chatbot:
> Finished LLMChain chain.
' Hi there, how are you doing today?'
llm_chain.predict(human_input="Not to bad - how are you?")
> Entering new LLMChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
You are a chatbot having a conversation with a human.
Human: Hi there my friend
AI:  Hi there, how are you doing today?


Human: Hi there my friend
AI:  Hi there, how are you doing today?
Human: Not to bad - how are you?
Chatbot:
> Finished LLMChain chain.
" I'm doing great, thank you for asking!"
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How to add Memory to an Agent
How to add Memory to an Agent#
This notebook goes over adding memory to an Agent. Before going through this notebook, please walkthrough the following notebooks, as this will build on top of both of them:
Adding memory to an LLM Chain
Custom Agents
In order to add a memory to an agent we are going to the the following steps:
We are going to create an LLMChain with memory.
We are going to use that LLMChain to create a custom Agent.
For the purposes of this exercise, we are going to create a simple custom Agent that has access to a search tool and utilizes the ConversationBufferMemory class.
from langchain.agents import ZeroShotAgent, Tool, AgentExecutor
from langchain.memory import ConversationBufferMemory
from langchain import OpenAI, LLMChain
from langchain.utilities import GoogleSearchAPIWrapper
search = GoogleSearchAPIWrapper()
tools = [
    Tool(
        name = "Search",
        func=search.run,
        description="useful for when you need to answer questions about current events"
    )
]
Notice the usage of the chat_history variable in the PromptTemplate, which matches up with the dynamic key name in the ConversationBufferMemory.
prefix = """Have a conversation with a human, answering the following questions as best you can. You have access to the following tools:"""
suffix = """Begin!"
{chat_history}
Question: {input}
{agent_scratchpad}"""
prompt = ZeroShotAgent.create_prompt(
    tools,
    prefix=prefix,
    suffix=suffix,
    input_variables=["input", "chat_history", "agent_scratchpad"]
)
memory = ConversationBufferMemory(memory_key="chat_history")


)
memory = ConversationBufferMemory(memory_key="chat_history")
We can now construct the LLMChain, with the Memory object, and then create the agent.
llm_chain = LLMChain(llm=OpenAI(temperature=0), prompt=prompt)
agent = ZeroShotAgent(llm_chain=llm_chain, tools=tools, verbose=True)
agent_chain = AgentExecutor.from_agent_and_tools(agent=agent, tools=tools, verbose=True, memory=memory)
agent_chain.run(input="How many people live in canada?")
> Entering new AgentExecutor chain...
Thought: I need to find out the population of Canada
Action: Search
Action Input: Population of Canada


Thought: I now know the final answer
Final Answer: The national anthem of [country] is [name of anthem].
> Finished AgentExecutor chain.
'The national anthem of [country] is [name of anthem].'
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ConversationSummaryMemory
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ConversationSummaryMemory#
Now let’s take a look at using a slightly more complex type of memory - ConversationSummaryMemory. This type of memory creates a summary of the conversation over time. This can be useful for condensing information from the conversation over time.
Let’s first explore the basic functionality of this type of memory.
from langchain.memory import ConversationSummaryMemory
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
memory = ConversationSummaryMemory(llm=OpenAI(temperature=0))
memory.save_context({"input": "hi"}, {"ouput": "whats up"})
memory.load_memory_variables({})
{'history': '\nThe human greets the AI, to which the AI responds.'}
We can also get the history as a list of messages (this is useful if you are using this with a chat model).
memory = ConversationSummaryMemory(llm=OpenAI(temperature=0), return_messages=True)
memory.save_context({"input": "hi"}, {"ouput": "whats up"})
memory.load_memory_variables({})
{'history': [SystemMessage(content='\nThe human greets the AI, to which the AI responds.', additional_kwargs={})]}
We can also utilize the predict_new_summary method directly.
messages = memory.chat_memory.messages
previous_summary = ""
memory.predict_new_summary(messages, previous_summary)
'\nThe human greets the AI, to which the AI responds.'
Using in a chain#
Let’s walk through an example of using this in a chain, again setting verbose=True so we can see the prompt.
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chains import ConversationChain
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
conversation_with_summary = ConversationChain(
    llm=llm,


conversation_with_summary = ConversationChain(
    llm=llm,
    memory=ConversationSummaryMemory(llm=OpenAI()),
    verbose=True
)
conversation_with_summary.predict(input="Hi, what's up?")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
Human: Hi, what's up?
AI:
> Finished chain.
" Hi there! I'm doing great. I'm currently helping a customer with a technical issue. How about you?"
conversation_with_summary.predict(input="Tell me more about it!")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
The human greeted the AI and asked how it was doing. The AI replied that it was doing great and was currently helping a customer with a technical issue.
Human: Tell me more about it!
AI:
> Finished chain.
" Sure! The customer is having trouble with their computer not connecting to the internet. I'm helping them troubleshoot the issue and figure out what the problem is. So far, we've tried resetting the router and checking the network settings, but the issue still persists. We're currently looking into other possible solutions."
conversation_with_summary.predict(input="Very cool -- what is the scope of the project?")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:


> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting:
The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Current conversation:
The human greeted the AI and asked how it was doing. The AI replied that it was doing great and was currently helping a customer with a technical issue where their computer was not connecting to the internet. The AI was troubleshooting the issue and had already tried resetting the router and checking the network settings, but the issue still persisted and they were looking into other possible solutions.
Human: Very cool -- what is the scope of the project?
AI:
> Finished chain.
" The scope of the project is to troubleshoot the customer's computer issue and find a solution that will allow them to connect to the internet. We are currently exploring different possibilities and have already tried resetting the router and checking the network settings, but the issue still persists."
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Using in a chain
ConversationTokenBufferMemory#
ConversationTokenBufferMemory keeps a buffer of recent interactions in memory, and uses token length rather than number of interactions to determine when to flush interactions.
Let’s first walk through how to use the utilities
from langchain.memory import ConversationTokenBufferMemory
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
llm = OpenAI()
memory = ConversationTokenBufferMemory(llm=llm, max_token_limit=10)
memory.save_context({"input": "hi"}, {"ouput": "whats up"})
memory.save_context({"input": "not much you"}, {"ouput": "not much"})
memory.load_memory_variables({})
{'history': 'Human: not much you\nAI: not much'}
We can also get the history as a list of messages (this is useful if you are using this with a chat model).
memory = ConversationTokenBufferMemory(llm=llm, max_token_limit=10, return_messages=True)
memory.save_context({"input": "hi"}, {"ouput": "whats up"})
memory.save_context({"input": "not much you"}, {"ouput": "not much"})
Using in a chain#
Let’s walk through an example, again setting verbose=True so we can see the prompt.
from langchain.chains import ConversationChain
conversation_with_summary = ConversationChain(
    llm=llm,
    # We set a very low max_token_limit for the purposes of testing.
    memory=ConversationTokenBufferMemory(llm=OpenAI(), max_token_limit=60),
    verbose=True
)
conversation_with_summary.predict(input="Hi, what's up?")
> Entering new ConversationChain chain...
Prompt after formatting: