get_chat_history Function#
You can also specify a get_chat_history function, which can be used to format the chat_history string.
def get_chat_history(inputs) -> str:
    res = []
    for human, ai in inputs:
        res.append(f"Human:{human}\nAI:{ai}")
    return "\n".join(res)
qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), vectorstore.as_retriever(), get_chat_history=get_chat_history)
chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
result['answer']
" The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He also said that she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans."
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Graph QA
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Create the graph
Querying the graph
Save the graph
Graph QA#
This notebook goes over how to do question answering over a graph data structure.
Create the graph#
In this section, we construct an example graph. At the moment, this works best for small pieces of text.
from langchain.indexes import GraphIndexCreator
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader
index_creator = GraphIndexCreator(llm=OpenAI(temperature=0))
with open("../../state_of_the_union.txt") as f:
    all_text = f.read()
We will use just a small snippet, because extracting the knowledge triplets is a bit intensive at the moment.
text = "\n".join(all_text.split("\n\n")[105:108])
text
'It won’t look like much, but if you stop and look closely, you’ll see a “Field of dreams,” the ground on which America’s future will be built. \nThis is where Intel, the American company that helped build Silicon Valley, is going to build its $20 billion semiconductor “mega site”. \nUp to eight state-of-the-art factories in one place. 10,000 new good-paying jobs. '
graph = index_creator.from_text(text)
We can inspect the created graph.
graph.get_triples()
[('Intel', '$20 billion semiconductor "mega site"', 'is going to build'),
 ('Intel', 'state-of-the-art factories', 'is building'),
 ('Intel', '10,000 new good-paying jobs', 'is creating'),
 ('Intel', 'Silicon Valley', 'is helping build'),
 ('Field of dreams',
  "America's future will be built",
  'is the ground on which')]
Querying the graph#


'is the ground on which')]
Querying the graph#
We can now use the graph QA chain to ask question of the graph
from langchain.chains import GraphQAChain
chain = GraphQAChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), graph=graph, verbose=True)
chain.run("what is Intel going to build?")
> Entering new GraphQAChain chain...
Entities Extracted:
 Intel
Full Context:
Intel is going to build $20 billion semiconductor "mega site"
Intel is building state-of-the-art factories
Intel is creating 10,000 new good-paying jobs
Intel is helping build Silicon Valley
> Finished chain.
' Intel is going to build a $20 billion semiconductor "mega site" with state-of-the-art factories, creating 10,000 new good-paying jobs and helping to build Silicon Valley.'
Save the graph#
We can also save and load the graph.
graph.write_to_gml("graph.gml")
from langchain.indexes.graph import NetworkxEntityGraph
loaded_graph = NetworkxEntityGraph.from_gml("graph.gml")
loaded_graph.get_triples()
[('Intel', '$20 billion semiconductor "mega site"', 'is going to build'),
 ('Intel', 'state-of-the-art factories', 'is building'),
 ('Intel', '10,000 new good-paying jobs', 'is creating'),
 ('Intel', 'Silicon Valley', 'is helping build'),
 ('Field of dreams',
  "America's future will be built",
  'is the ground on which')]
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Analyze Document
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Summarize
Question Answering
Analyze Document#
The AnalyzeDocumentChain is more of an end to chain. This chain takes in a single document, splits it up, and then runs it through a CombineDocumentsChain. This can be used as more of an end-to-end chain.
with open("../../state_of_the_union.txt") as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
Summarize#
Let’s take a look at it in action below, using it summarize a long document.
from langchain import OpenAI
from langchain.chains.summarize import load_summarize_chain
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
summary_chain = load_summarize_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")
from langchain.chains import AnalyzeDocumentChain
summarize_document_chain = AnalyzeDocumentChain(combine_docs_chain=summary_chain)
summarize_document_chain.run(state_of_the_union)
" In this speech, President Biden addresses the American people and the world, discussing the recent aggression of Russia's Vladimir Putin in Ukraine and the US response. He outlines economic sanctions and other measures taken to hold Putin accountable, and announces the US Department of Justice's task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs. He also announces plans to fight inflation and lower costs for families, invest in American manufacturing, and provide military, economic, and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. He calls for immigration reform, protecting the rights of women, and advancing the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans, and pays tribute to military families. He concludes with optimism for the future of America."
Question Answering#
Let’s take a look at this using a question answering chain.
from langchain.chains.question_answering import load_qa_chain
qa_chain = load_qa_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")


qa_chain = load_qa_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")
qa_document_chain = AnalyzeDocumentChain(combine_docs_chain=qa_chain)
qa_document_chain.run(input_document=state_of_the_union, question="what did the president say about justice breyer?")
' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.'
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Question Answering
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Prepare Data
Quickstart
The stuff Chain
The map_reduce Chain
The refine Chain
The map-rerank Chain
Question Answering#
This notebook walks through how to use LangChain for question answering over a list of documents. It covers four different types of chains: stuff, map_reduce, refine, map_rerank. For a more in depth explanation of what these chain types are, see here.
Prepare Data#
First we prepare the data. For this example we do similarity search over a vector database, but these documents could be fetched in any manner (the point of this notebook to highlight what to do AFTER you fetch the documents).
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
from langchain.indexes.vectorstore import VectorstoreIndexCreator
with open("../../state_of_the_union.txt") as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
docsearch = Chroma.from_texts(texts, embeddings, metadatas=[{"source": str(i)} for i in range(len(texts))]).as_retriever()
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
docs = docsearch.get_relevant_documents(query)
from langchain.chains.question_answering import load_qa_chain
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
Quickstart#


from langchain.llms import OpenAI
Quickstart#
If you just want to get started as quickly as possible, this is the recommended way to do it:
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain.run(input_documents=docs, question=query)
' The president said that Justice Breyer has dedicated his life to serve the country and thanked him for his service.'
If you want more control and understanding over what is happening, please see the information below.
The stuff Chain#
This sections shows results of using the stuff Chain to do question answering.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president said that Justice Breyer has dedicated his life to serve the country and thanked him for his service.'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
prompt_template = """Use the following pieces of context to answer the question at the end. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer.
{context}
Question: {question}
Answer in Italian:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=prompt_template, input_variables=["context", "question"]
)
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff", prompt=PROMPT)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)


chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese e ha ricevuto una vasta gamma di supporto.'}
The map_reduce Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map_reduce Chain to do question answering.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president said that Justice Breyer is an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and thanked him for his service.'}
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for map_reduce chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_map_steps variable.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_map_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': [' "Tonight, I’d like to honor someone who has dedicated his life to serve this country: Justice Stephen Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service."',
  ' A former top litigator in private practice. A former federal public defender. And from a family of public school educators and police officers. A consensus builder. Since she’s been nominated, she’s received a broad range of support—from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans.',
  ' None',
  ' None'],


' None',
  ' None'],
 'output_text': ' The president said that Justice Breyer is an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and thanked him for his service.'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
question_prompt_template = """Use the following portion of a long document to see if any of the text is relevant to answer the question.
Return any relevant text translated into italian.
{context}
Question: {question}
Relevant text, if any, in Italian:"""
QUESTION_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=question_prompt_template, input_variables=["context", "question"]
)
combine_prompt_template = """Given the following extracted parts of a long document and a question, create a final answer italian.
If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know. Don't try to make up an answer.
QUESTION: {question}
=========
{summaries}
=========
Answer in Italian:"""
COMBINE_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=combine_prompt_template, input_variables=["summaries", "question"]
)
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_map_steps=True, question_prompt=QUESTION_PROMPT, combine_prompt=COMBINE_PROMPT)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)


chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ["\nStasera vorrei onorare qualcuno che ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese: il giustizia Stephen Breyer - un veterano dell'esercito, uno studioso costituzionale e un giustizia in uscita della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti. Giustizia Breyer, grazie per il tuo servizio.",
  '\nNessun testo pertinente.',
  ' Non ha detto nulla riguardo a Justice Breyer.',
  " Non c'è testo pertinente."],
 'output_text': ' Non ha detto nulla riguardo a Justice Breyer.'}
Batch Size
When using the map_reduce chain, one thing to keep in mind is the batch size you are using during the map step. If this is too high, it could cause rate limiting errors. You can control this by setting the batch size on the LLM used. Note that this only applies for LLMs with this parameter. Below is an example of doing so:
llm = OpenAI(batch_size=5, temperature=0)
The refine Chain#
This sections shows results of using the refine Chain to do question answering.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)


chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': '\n\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice, as well as for his support of the Equality Act and his commitment to protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans. He also praised Justice Breyer for his role in helping to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which he said would be the most sweeping investment to rebuild America in history and would help the country compete for the jobs of the 21st Century.'}
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for refine chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_refine_steps variable.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_refine_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ['\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and his legacy of excellence.',
  '\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice.',
  '\n\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice, as well as for his support of the Equality Act and his commitment to protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans.',


'\n\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice, as well as for his support of the Equality Act and his commitment to protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans. He also praised Justice Breyer for his role in helping to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is the most sweeping investment to rebuild America in history.'],
 'output_text': '\n\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice, as well as for his support of the Equality Act and his commitment to protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans. He also praised Justice Breyer for his role in helping to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is the most sweeping investment to rebuild America in history.'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
refine_prompt_template = (
    "The original question is as follows: {question}\n"
    "We have provided an existing answer: {existing_answer}\n"
    "We have the opportunity to refine the existing answer"
    "(only if needed) with some more context below.\n"
    "------------\n"
    "{context_str}\n"
    "------------\n"
    "Given the new context, refine the original answer to better "
    "answer the question. "
    "If the context isn't useful, return the original answer. Reply in Italian."
)
refine_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["question", "existing_answer", "context_str"],
    template=refine_prompt_template,
)
initial_qa_template = (


template=refine_prompt_template,
)
initial_qa_template = (
    "Context information is below. \n"
    "---------------------\n"
    "{context_str}"
    "\n---------------------\n"
    "Given the context information and not prior knowledge, "
    "answer the question: {question}\nYour answer should be in Italian.\n"
)
initial_qa_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["context_str", "question"], template=initial_qa_template
)
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_refine_steps=True,
                     question_prompt=initial_qa_prompt, refine_prompt=refine_prompt)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ['\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese e ha reso omaggio al suo servizio.',
  "\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha reso omaggio al suo servizio e ha sostenuto la nomina di una top litigatrice in pratica privata, un ex difensore pubblico federale e una famiglia di insegnanti e agenti di polizia delle scuole pubbliche. Ha anche sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere e la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione.",


"\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha reso omaggio al suo servizio e ha sostenuto la nomina di una top litigatrice in pratica privata, un ex difensore pubblico federale e una famiglia di insegnanti e agenti di polizia delle scuole pubbliche. Ha anche sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere, la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione, la protezione degli americani LGBTQ+ e l'approvazione dell'Equality Act. Ha inoltre sottolineato l'importanza di lavorare insieme per sconfiggere l'epidemia di oppiacei.",
  "\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha reso omaggio al suo servizio e ha sostenuto la nomina di una top litigatrice in pratica privata, un ex difensore pubblico federale e una famiglia di insegnanti e agenti di polizia delle scuole pubbliche. Ha anche sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere, la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione, la protezione degli americani LGBTQ+ e l'approvazione dell'Equality Act. Ha inoltre sottolineato l'importanza di lavorare insieme per sconfiggere l'epidemia di oppiacei e per investire in America, educare gli americani, far crescere la forza lavoro e costruire l'economia dal"],


'output_text': "\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha reso omaggio al suo servizio e ha sostenuto la nomina di una top litigatrice in pratica privata, un ex difensore pubblico federale e una famiglia di insegnanti e agenti di polizia delle scuole pubbliche. Ha anche sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere, la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione, la protezione degli americani LGBTQ+ e l'approvazione dell'Equality Act. Ha inoltre sottolineato l'importanza di lavorare insieme per sconfiggere l'epidemia di oppiacei e per investire in America, educare gli americani, far crescere la forza lavoro e costruire l'economia dal"}
The map-rerank Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map-rerank Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_rerank", return_intermediate_steps=True)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
results = chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
results["output_text"]
' The President thanked Justice Breyer for his service and honored him for dedicating his life to serve the country.'
results["intermediate_steps"]
[{'answer': ' The President thanked Justice Breyer for his service and honored him for dedicating his life to serve the country.',
  'score': '100'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'},


{'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'}]
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
from langchain.output_parsers import RegexParser
output_parser = RegexParser(
    regex=r"(.*?)\nScore: (.*)",
    output_keys=["answer", "score"],
)
prompt_template = """Use the following pieces of context to answer the question at the end. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer.
In addition to giving an answer, also return a score of how fully it answered the user's question. This should be in the following format:
Question: [question here]
Helpful Answer In Italian: [answer here]
Score: [score between 0 and 100]
Begin!
Context:
---------
{context}
---------
Question: {question}
Helpful Answer In Italian:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=prompt_template,
    input_variables=["context", "question"],
    output_parser=output_parser,
)
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_rerank", return_intermediate_steps=True, prompt=PROMPT)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': [{'answer': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese.',
   'score': '100'},


'score': '100'},
  {'answer': ' Il presidente non ha detto nulla sulla Giustizia Breyer.',
   'score': '100'},
  {'answer': ' Non so.', 'score': '0'},
  {'answer': ' Non so.', 'score': '0'}],
 'output_text': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese.'}
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Vector DB Text Generation
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Prepare Data
Set Up Vector DB
Set Up LLM Chain with Custom Prompt
Generate Text
Vector DB Text Generation#
This notebook walks through how to use LangChain for text generation over a vector index. This is useful if we want to generate text that is able to draw from a large body of custom text, for example, generating blog posts that have an understanding of previous blog posts written, or product tutorials that can refer to product documentation.
Prepare Data#
First, we prepare the data. For this example, we fetch a documentation site that consists of markdown files hosted on Github and split them into small enough Documents.
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
import requests
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
import pathlib
import subprocess
import tempfile
def get_github_docs(repo_owner, repo_name):
    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as d:
        subprocess.check_call(
            f"git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/{repo_owner}/{repo_name}.git .",
            cwd=d,
            shell=True,
        )
        git_sha = (
            subprocess.check_output("git rev-parse HEAD", shell=True, cwd=d)
            .decode("utf-8")
            .strip()
        )
        repo_path = pathlib.Path(d)
        markdown_files = list(repo_path.glob("*/*.md")) + list(
            repo_path.glob("*/*.mdx")
        )
        for markdown_file in markdown_files:
            with open(markdown_file, "r") as f:
                relative_path = markdown_file.relative_to(repo_path)


relative_path = markdown_file.relative_to(repo_path)
                github_url = f"https://github.com/{repo_owner}/{repo_name}/blob/{git_sha}/{relative_path}"
                yield Document(page_content=f.read(), metadata={"source": github_url})
sources = get_github_docs("yirenlu92", "deno-manual-forked")
source_chunks = []
splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(separator=" ", chunk_size=1024, chunk_overlap=0)
for source in sources:
    for chunk in splitter.split_text(source.page_content):
        source_chunks.append(Document(page_content=chunk, metadata=source.metadata))
Cloning into '.'...
Set Up Vector DB#
Now that we have the documentation content in chunks, let’s put all this information in a vector index for easy retrieval.
search_index = Chroma.from_documents(source_chunks, OpenAIEmbeddings())
Set Up LLM Chain with Custom Prompt#
Next, let’s set up a simple LLM chain but give it a custom prompt for blog post generation. Note that the custom prompt is parameterized and takes two inputs: context, which will be the documents fetched from the vector search, and topic, which is given by the user.
from langchain.chains import LLMChain
prompt_template = """Use the context below to write a 400 word blog post about the topic below:
    Context: {context}
    Topic: {topic}
    Blog post:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=prompt_template, input_variables=["context", "topic"]
)
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
chain = LLMChain(llm=llm, prompt=PROMPT)
Generate Text#


Generate Text#
Finally, we write a function to apply our inputs to the chain. The function takes an input parameter topic. We find the documents in the vector index that correspond to that topic, and use them as additional context in our simple LLM chain.
def generate_blog_post(topic):
    docs = search_index.similarity_search(topic, k=4)
    inputs = [{"context": doc.page_content, "topic": topic} for doc in docs]
    print(chain.apply(inputs))
generate_blog_post("environment variables")


[{'text': '\n\nEnvironment variables are a great way to store and access sensitive information in your Deno applications. Deno offers built-in support for environment variables with `Deno.env`, and you can also use a `.env` file to store and access environment variables.\n\nUsing `Deno.env` is simple. It has getter and setter methods, so you can easily set and retrieve environment variables. For example, you can set the `FIREBASE_API_KEY` and `FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN` environment variables like this:\n\n```ts\nDeno.env.set("FIREBASE_API_KEY", "examplekey123");\nDeno.env.set("FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN", "firebasedomain.com");\n\nconsole.log(Deno.env.get("FIREBASE_API_KEY")); // examplekey123\nconsole.log(Deno.env.get("FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN")); // firebasedomain.com\n```\n\nYou can also store environment variables in a `.env` file. This is a great'}, {'text': '\n\nEnvironment variables are a powerful tool for managing configuration settings in a program. They allow us to set values that can be used by the program, without having to hard-code them into the code. This makes it easier to change settings without having to modify the code.\n\nIn Deno, environment variables can be set in a few different ways. The most common way is to use the `VAR=value` syntax. This will set the environment variable `VAR` to the value `value`. This can be used to set any number of environment variables before running a command. For example, if we wanted to set the environment variable `VAR` to `hello` before running a Deno command, we could do so like this:\n\n```\nVAR=hello deno run main.ts\n```\n\nThis will set the environment variable `VAR` to `hello` before running


will set the environment variable `VAR` to `hello` before running the command. We can then access this variable in our code using the `Deno.env.get()` function. For example, if we ran the following command:\n\n```\nVAR=hello && deno eval "console.log(\'Deno: \' + Deno.env.get(\'VAR'}, {'text': '\n\nEnvironment variables are a powerful tool for developers, allowing them to store and access data without having to hard-code it into their applications. In Deno, you can access environment variables using the `Deno.env.get()` function.\n\nFor example, if you wanted to access the `HOME` environment variable, you could do so like this:\n\n```js\n// env.js\nDeno.env.get("HOME");\n```\n\nWhen running this code, you\'ll need to grant the Deno process access to environment variables. This can be done by passing the `--allow-env` flag to the `deno run` command. You can also specify which environment variables you want to grant access to, like this:\n\n```shell\n# Allow access to only the HOME env var\ndeno run --allow-env=HOME env.js\n```\n\nIt\'s important to note that environment variables are case insensitive on Windows, so Deno also matches them case insensitively (on Windows only).\n\nAnother thing to be aware of when using environment variables is subprocess permissions. Subprocesses are powerful and can access system resources regardless of the permissions you granted to the Den'}, {'text': '\n\nEnvironment variables are an important part of any programming language, and Deno is no exception. Deno is a secure JavaScript and TypeScript runtime built on the V8 JavaScript engine, and it recently added support for environment variables. This feature was added in Deno version 1.6.0, and it is now available for use in


added in Deno version 1.6.0, and it is now available for use in Deno applications.\n\nEnvironment variables are used to store information that can be used by programs. They are typically used to store configuration information, such as the location of a database or the name of a user. In Deno, environment variables are stored in the `Deno.env` object. This object is similar to the `process.env` object in Node.js, and it allows you to access and set environment variables.\n\nThe `Deno.env` object is a read-only object, meaning that you cannot directly modify the environment variables. Instead, you must use the `Deno.env.set()` function to set environment variables. This function takes two arguments: the name of the environment variable and the value to set it to. For example, if you wanted to set the `FOO` environment variable to `bar`, you would use the following code:\n\n```'}]


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Hypothetical Document Embeddings
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Multiple generations
Using our own prompts
Using HyDE
Hypothetical Document Embeddings#
This notebook goes over how to use Hypothetical Document Embeddings (HyDE), as described in this paper.
At a high level, HyDE is an embedding technique that takes queries, generates a hypothetical answer, and then embeds that generated document and uses that as the final example.
In order to use HyDE, we therefore need to provide a base embedding model, as well as an LLMChain that can be used to generate those documents. By default, the HyDE class comes with some default prompts to use (see the paper for more details on them), but we can also create our own.
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.chains import LLMChain, HypotheticalDocumentEmbedder
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
base_embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
llm = OpenAI()
# Load with `web_search` prompt
embeddings = HypotheticalDocumentEmbedder.from_llm(llm, base_embeddings, "web_search")
# Now we can use it as any embedding class!
result = embeddings.embed_query("Where is the Taj Mahal?")
Multiple generations#
We can also generate multiple documents and then combine the embeddings for those. By default, we combine those by taking the average. We can do this by changing the LLM we use to generate documents to return multiple things.
multi_llm = OpenAI(n=4, best_of=4)
embeddings = HypotheticalDocumentEmbedder.from_llm(multi_llm, base_embeddings, "web_search")
result = embeddings.embed_query("Where is the Taj Mahal?")
Using our own prompts#


Using our own prompts#
Besides using preconfigured prompts, we can also easily construct our own prompts and use those in the LLMChain that is generating the documents. This can be useful if we know the domain our queries will be in, as we can condition the prompt to generate text more similar to that.
In the example below, let’s condition it to generate text about a state of the union address (because we will use that in the next example).
prompt_template = """Please answer the user's question about the most recent state of the union address
Question: {question}
Answer:"""
prompt = PromptTemplate(input_variables=["question"], template=prompt_template)
llm_chain = LLMChain(llm=llm, prompt=prompt)
embeddings = HypotheticalDocumentEmbedder(llm_chain=llm_chain, base_embeddings=base_embeddings)
result = embeddings.embed_query("What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson")
Using HyDE#
Now that we have HyDE, we can use it as we would any other embedding class! Here is using it to find similar passages in the state of the union example.
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
with open("../../state_of_the_union.txt") as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
docsearch = Chroma.from_texts(texts, embeddings)
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
docs = docsearch.similarity_search(query)
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
print(docs[0].page_content)


print(docs[0].page_content)
In state after state, new laws have been passed, not only to suppress the vote, but to subvert entire elections.
We cannot let this happen.
Tonight. I call on the Senate to: Pass the Freedom to Vote Act. Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. And while you’re at it, pass the Disclose Act so Americans can know who is funding our elections.
Tonight, I’d like to honor someone who has dedicated his life to serve this country: Justice Stephen Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service.
One of the most serious constitutional responsibilities a President has is nominating someone to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
And I did that 4 days ago, when I nominated Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. One of our nation’s top legal minds, who will continue Justice Breyer’s legacy of excellence.
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Summarization
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Prepare Data
Quickstart
The stuff Chain
The map_reduce Chain
The custom MapReduceChain
The refine Chain
Summarization#
This notebook walks through how to use LangChain for summarization over a list of documents. It covers three different chain types: stuff, map_reduce, and refine. For a more in depth explanation of what these chain types are, see here.
Prepare Data#
First we prepare the data. For this example we create multiple documents from one long one, but these documents could be fetched in any manner (the point of this notebook to highlight what to do AFTER you fetch the documents).
from langchain import OpenAI, PromptTemplate, LLMChain
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.chains.mapreduce import MapReduceChain
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter()
with open("../../state_of_the_union.txt") as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
docs = [Document(page_content=t) for t in texts[:3]]
Quickstart#
If you just want to get started as quickly as possible, this is the recommended way to do it:
from langchain.chains.summarize import load_summarize_chain
chain = load_summarize_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")
chain.run(docs)


chain.run(docs)
' In response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, the United States and its allies are taking action to hold Putin accountable, including economic sanctions, asset seizures, and military assistance. The US is also providing economic and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, and has passed the American Rescue Plan and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help struggling families and create jobs. The US remains unified and determined to protect Ukraine and the free world.'
If you want more control and understanding over what is happening, please see the information below.
The stuff Chain#
This sections shows results of using the stuff Chain to do summarization.
chain = load_summarize_chain(llm, chain_type="stuff")
chain.run(docs)
' In his speech, President Biden addressed the crisis in Ukraine, the American Rescue Plan, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. He discussed the need to invest in America, educate Americans, and build the economy from the bottom up. He also announced the release of 60 million barrels of oil from reserves around the world, and the creation of a dedicated task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs. He concluded by emphasizing the need to Buy American and use taxpayer dollars to rebuild America.'
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
prompt_template = """Write a concise summary of the following:
{text}
CONCISE SUMMARY IN ITALIAN:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(template=prompt_template, input_variables=["text"])
chain = load_summarize_chain(llm, chain_type="stuff", prompt=PROMPT)
chain.run(docs)


chain.run(docs)
"\n\nIn questa serata, il Presidente degli Stati Uniti ha annunciato una serie di misure per affrontare la crisi in Ucraina, causata dall'aggressione di Putin. Ha anche annunciato l'invio di aiuti economici, militari e umanitari all'Ucraina. Ha anche annunciato che gli Stati Uniti e i loro alleati stanno imponendo sanzioni economiche a Putin e stanno rilasciando 60 milioni di barili di petrolio dalle riserve di tutto il mondo. Inoltre, ha annunciato che il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti sta creando una task force dedicata ai crimini degli oligarchi russi. Il Presidente ha anche annunciato l'approvazione della legge bipartitica sull'infrastruttura, che prevede investimenti per la ricostruzione dell'America. Questo porterà a creare posti"
The map_reduce Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map_reduce Chain to do summarization.
chain = load_summarize_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")
chain.run(docs)
" In response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States and its allies have imposed economic sanctions and are taking other measures to hold Putin accountable. The US is also providing economic and military assistance to Ukraine, protecting NATO countries, and releasing oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve. President Biden and Vice President Harris have passed legislation to help struggling families and rebuild America's infrastructure."
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for map_reduce chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_map_steps variable.


chain = load_summarize_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_intermediate_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'map_steps': [" In response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States has united with other freedom-loving nations to impose economic sanctions and hold Putin accountable. The U.S. Department of Justice is also assembling a task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs and seize their ill-gotten gains.",
  ' The United States and its European allies are taking action to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, including seizing assets, closing off airspace, and providing economic and military assistance to Ukraine. The US is also mobilizing forces to protect NATO countries and has released 30 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help blunt gas prices. The world is uniting in support of Ukraine and democracy, and the US stands with its Ukrainian-American citizens.',
  " President Biden and Vice President Harris ran for office with a new economic vision for America, and have since passed the American Rescue Plan and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help struggling families and rebuild America's infrastructure. This includes creating jobs, modernizing roads, airports, ports, and waterways, replacing lead pipes, providing affordable high-speed internet, and investing in American products to support American jobs."],
 'output_text': " In response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States and its allies have imposed economic sanctions and are taking other measures to hold Putin accountable. The US is also providing economic and military assistance to Ukraine, protecting NATO countries, and passing legislation to help struggling families and rebuild America's infrastructure. The world is uniting in support of Ukraine and democracy, and the US stands with its Ukrainian-American citizens."}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.


prompt_template = """Write a concise summary of the following:
{text}
CONCISE SUMMARY IN ITALIAN:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(template=prompt_template, input_variables=["text"])
chain = load_summarize_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_intermediate_steps=True, map_prompt=PROMPT, combine_prompt=PROMPT)
chain({"input_documents": docs}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ["\n\nQuesta sera, ci incontriamo come democratici, repubblicani e indipendenti, ma soprattutto come americani. La Russia di Putin ha cercato di scuotere le fondamenta del mondo libero, ma ha sottovalutato la forza della gente ucraina. Gli Stati Uniti e i loro alleati stanno ora imponendo sanzioni economiche a Putin e stanno tagliando l'accesso della Russia alla tecnologia. Il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti sta anche creando una task force dedicata per andare dopo i crimini degli oligarchi russi.",


"\n\nStiamo unendo le nostre forze con quelle dei nostri alleati europei per sequestrare yacht, appartamenti di lusso e jet privati di Putin. Abbiamo chiuso lo spazio aereo americano ai voli russi e stiamo fornendo più di un miliardo di dollari in assistenza all'Ucraina. Abbiamo anche mobilitato le nostre forze terrestri, aeree e navali per proteggere i paesi della NATO. Abbiamo anche rilasciato 60 milioni di barili di petrolio dalle riserve di tutto il mondo, di cui 30 milioni dalla nostra riserva strategica di petrolio. Stiamo affrontando una prova reale e ci vorrà del tempo, ma alla fine Putin non riuscirà a spegnere l'amore dei popoli per la libertà.",


"\n\nIl Presidente Biden ha lottato per passare l'American Rescue Plan per aiutare le persone che soffrivano a causa della pandemia. Il piano ha fornito sollievo economico immediato a milioni di americani, ha aiutato a mettere cibo sulla loro tavola, a mantenere un tetto sopra le loro teste e a ridurre il costo dell'assicurazione sanitaria. Il piano ha anche creato più di 6,5 milioni di nuovi posti di lavoro, il più alto numero di posti di lavoro creati in un anno nella storia degli Stati Uniti. Il Presidente Biden ha anche firmato la legge bipartitica sull'infrastruttura, la più ampia iniziativa di ricostruzione della storia degli Stati Uniti. Il piano prevede di modernizzare le strade, gli aeroporti, i porti e le vie navigabili in"],
 'output_text': "\n\nIl Presidente Biden sta lavorando per aiutare le persone che soffrono a causa della pandemia attraverso l'American Rescue Plan e la legge bipartitica sull'infrastruttura. Gli Stati Uniti e i loro alleati stanno anche imponendo sanzioni economiche a Putin e tagliando l'accesso della Russia alla tecnologia. Stanno anche sequestrando yacht, appartamenti di lusso e jet privati di Putin e fornendo più di un miliardo di dollari in assistenza all'Ucraina. Alla fine, Putin non riuscirà a spegnere l'amore dei popoli per la libertà."}
The custom MapReduceChain#
Multi input prompt


The custom MapReduceChain#
Multi input prompt
You can also use prompt with multi input. In this example, we will use a MapReduce chain to answer specifc question about our code.
from langchain.chains.combine_documents.map_reduce import MapReduceDocumentsChain
from langchain.chains.combine_documents.stuff import StuffDocumentsChain
map_template_string = """Give the following python code information, generate a description that explains what the code does and also mention the time complexity.
Code:
{code}
Return the the description in the following format:
name of the function: description of the function
"""
reduce_template_string = """Give the following following python fuctions name and their descritpion, answer the following question
{code_description}
Question: {question}
Answer:
"""
MAP_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(input_variables=["code"], template=map_template_string)
REDUCE_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(input_variables=["code_description", "question"], template=reduce_template_string)
llm = OpenAI()
map_llm_chain = LLMChain(llm=llm, prompt=MAP_PROMPT)
reduce_llm_chain = LLMChain(llm=llm, prompt=REDUCE_PROMPT)
generative_result_reduce_chain = StuffDocumentsChain(
    llm_chain=reduce_llm_chain,
    document_variable_name="code_description",
)
combine_documents = MapReduceDocumentsChain(
    llm_chain=map_llm_chain,
    combine_document_chain=generative_result_reduce_chain,
    document_variable_name="code",
)
map_reduce = MapReduceChain(
    combine_documents_chain=combine_documents,
    text_splitter=CharacterTextSplitter(separator="\n##\n", chunk_size=100, chunk_overlap=0),
)
code = """
def bubblesort(list):


)
code = """
def bubblesort(list):
   for iter_num in range(len(list)-1,0,-1):
      for idx in range(iter_num):
         if list[idx]>list[idx+1]:
            temp = list[idx]
            list[idx] = list[idx+1]
            list[idx+1] = temp
    return list
##
def insertion_sort(InputList):
   for i in range(1, len(InputList)):
      j = i-1
      nxt_element = InputList[i]
   while (InputList[j] > nxt_element) and (j >= 0):
      InputList[j+1] = InputList[j]
      j=j-1
   InputList[j+1] = nxt_element
   return InputList
##
def shellSort(input_list):
   gap = len(input_list) // 2
   while gap > 0:
      for i in range(gap, len(input_list)):
         temp = input_list[i]
         j = i
   while j >= gap and input_list[j - gap] > temp:
      input_list[j] = input_list[j - gap]
      j = j-gap
      input_list[j] = temp
   gap = gap//2
   return input_list
"""
map_reduce.run(input_text=code, question="Which function has a better time complexity?")
Created a chunk of size 247, which is longer than the specified 100
Created a chunk of size 267, which is longer than the specified 100
'shellSort has a better time complexity than both bubblesort and insertion_sort, as it has a time complexity of O(n^2), while the other two have a time complexity of O(n^2).'
The refine Chain#
This sections shows results of using the refine Chain to do summarization.


The refine Chain#
This sections shows results of using the refine Chain to do summarization.
chain = load_summarize_chain(llm, chain_type="refine")
chain.run(docs)
"\n\nIn response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States has united with other freedom-loving nations to impose economic sanctions and hold Putin accountable. The U.S. Department of Justice is also assembling a task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs and seize their ill-gotten gains. We are joining with our European allies to find and seize the assets of Russian oligarchs, including yachts, luxury apartments, and private jets. The U.S. is also closing off American airspace to all Russian flights, further isolating Russia and adding an additional squeeze on their economy. The U.S. and its allies are providing support to the Ukrainians in their fight for freedom, including military, economic, and humanitarian assistance. The U.S. is also mobilizing ground forces, air squadrons, and ship deployments to protect NATO countries. The U.S. and its allies are also releasing 60 million barrels of oil from reserves around the world, with the U.S. contributing 30 million barrels from its own Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In addition, the U.S. has passed the American Rescue Plan to provide immediate economic relief for tens of millions of Americans, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to rebuild America and create jobs. This investment will"
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for refine chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_refine_steps variable.
chain = load_summarize_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_intermediate_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs}, return_only_outputs=True)


chain({"input_documents": docs}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'refine_steps': [" In response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States has united with other freedom-loving nations to impose economic sanctions and hold Putin accountable. The U.S. Department of Justice is also assembling a task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs and seize their ill-gotten gains.",
  "\n\nIn response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States has united with other freedom-loving nations to impose economic sanctions and hold Putin accountable. The U.S. Department of Justice is also assembling a task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs and seize their ill-gotten gains. We are joining with our European allies to find and seize the assets of Russian oligarchs, including yachts, luxury apartments, and private jets. The U.S. is also closing off American airspace to all Russian flights, further isolating Russia and adding an additional squeeze on their economy. The U.S. and its allies are providing support to the Ukrainians in their fight for freedom, including military, economic, and humanitarian assistance. The U.S. is also mobilizing ground forces, air squadrons, and ship deployments to protect NATO countries. The U.S. and its allies are also releasing 60 million barrels of oil from reserves around the world, with the U.S. contributing 30 million barrels from its own Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Putin's war on Ukraine has left Russia weaker and the rest of the world stronger, with the world uniting in support of democracy and peace.",


"\n\nIn response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States has united with other freedom-loving nations to impose economic sanctions and hold Putin accountable. The U.S. Department of Justice is also assembling a task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs and seize their ill-gotten gains. We are joining with our European allies to find and seize the assets of Russian oligarchs, including yachts, luxury apartments, and private jets. The U.S. is also closing off American airspace to all Russian flights, further isolating Russia and adding an additional squeeze on their economy. The U.S. and its allies are providing support to the Ukrainians in their fight for freedom, including military, economic, and humanitarian assistance. The U.S. is also mobilizing ground forces, air squadrons, and ship deployments to protect NATO countries. The U.S. and its allies are also releasing 60 million barrels of oil from reserves around the world, with the U.S. contributing 30 million barrels from its own Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In addition, the U.S. has passed the American Rescue Plan to provide immediate economic relief for tens of millions of Americans, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to rebuild America and create jobs. This includes investing"],


'output_text': "\n\nIn response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the United States has united with other freedom-loving nations to impose economic sanctions and hold Putin accountable. The U.S. Department of Justice is also assembling a task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs and seize their ill-gotten gains. We are joining with our European allies to find and seize the assets of Russian oligarchs, including yachts, luxury apartments, and private jets. The U.S. is also closing off American airspace to all Russian flights, further isolating Russia and adding an additional squeeze on their economy. The U.S. and its allies are providing support to the Ukrainians in their fight for freedom, including military, economic, and humanitarian assistance. The U.S. is also mobilizing ground forces, air squadrons, and ship deployments to protect NATO countries. The U.S. and its allies are also releasing 60 million barrels of oil from reserves around the world, with the U.S. contributing 30 million barrels from its own Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In addition, the U.S. has passed the American Rescue Plan to provide immediate economic relief for tens of millions of Americans, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to rebuild America and create jobs. This includes investing"}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
prompt_template = """Write a concise summary of the following:
{text}
CONCISE SUMMARY IN ITALIAN:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(template=prompt_template, input_variables=["text"])
refine_template = (
    "Your job is to produce a final summary\n"
    "We have provided an existing summary up to a certain point: {existing_answer}\n"
    "We have the opportunity to refine the existing summary"
    "(only if needed) with some more context below.\n"


"(only if needed) with some more context below.\n"
    "------------\n"
    "{text}\n"
    "------------\n"
    "Given the new context, refine the original summary in Italian"
    "If the context isn't useful, return the original summary."
)
refine_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["existing_answer", "text"],
    template=refine_template,
)
chain = load_summarize_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_intermediate_steps=True, question_prompt=PROMPT, refine_prompt=refine_prompt)
chain({"input_documents": docs}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ["\n\nQuesta sera, ci incontriamo come democratici, repubblicani e indipendenti, ma soprattutto come americani. La Russia di Putin ha cercato di scuotere le fondamenta del mondo libero, ma ha sottovalutato la forza della gente ucraina. Insieme ai nostri alleati, stiamo imponendo sanzioni economiche, tagliando l'accesso della Russia alla tecnologia e bloccando i suoi più grandi istituti bancari dal sistema finanziario internazionale. Il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti sta anche assemblando una task force dedicata per andare dopo i crimini degli oligarchi russi.",


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


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


'output_text': "\n\nQuesta sera, ci incontriamo come democratici, repubblicani e indipendenti, ma soprattutto come americani. La Russia di Putin ha cercato di scuotere le fondamenta del mondo libero, ma ha sottovalutato la forza della gente ucraina. Insieme ai nostri alleati, stiamo imponendo sanzioni economiche, tagliando l'accesso della Russia alla tecnologia, bloccando i suoi più grandi istituti bancari dal sistema finanziario internazionale e chiudendo lo spazio aereo americano a tutti i voli russi. Il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti sta anche assemblando una task force dedicata per andare dopo i crimini degli oligarchi russi. Stiamo fornendo più di un miliardo di dollari in assistenza diretta all'Ucraina e fornendo assistenza militare."}
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Retrieval Question Answering with Sources#
This notebook goes over how to do question-answering with sources over an Index. It does this by using the RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain, which does the lookup of the documents from an Index.
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
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": f"{i}-pl"} for i in range(len(texts))])
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
from langchain.chains import RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain
from langchain import OpenAI
chain = RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain.from_chain_type(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff", retriever=docsearch.as_retriever())
chain({"question": "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'answer': ' The president honored Justice Breyer for his service and mentioned his legacy of excellence.\n',
 'sources': '31-pl'}
Chain Type#


'sources': '31-pl'}
Chain Type#
You can easily specify different chain types to load and use in the RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain chain. For a more detailed walkthrough of these types, please see this notebook.
There are two ways to load different chain types. First, you can specify the chain type argument in the from_chain_type method. This allows you to pass in the name of the chain type you want to use. For example, in the below we change the chain type to map_reduce.
chain = RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain.from_chain_type(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", retriever=docsearch.as_retriever())
chain({"question": "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'answer': ' The president said "Justice Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service."\n',
 'sources': '31-pl'}
The above way allows you to really simply change the chain_type, but it does provide a ton of flexibility over parameters to that chain type. If you want to control those parameters, you can load the chain directly (as you did in this notebook) and then pass that directly to the the RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain chain with the combine_documents_chain parameter. For example:
from langchain.chains.qa_with_sources import load_qa_with_sources_chain
qa_chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
qa = RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain(combine_documents_chain=qa_chain, retriever=docsearch.as_retriever())
qa({"question": "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"}, return_only_outputs=True)


{'answer': ' The president honored Justice Breyer for his service and mentioned his legacy of excellence.\n',
 'sources': '31-pl'}
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Prepare Data
Quickstart
The stuff Chain
The map_reduce Chain
The refine Chain
The map-rerank Chain
Question Answering with Sources#
This notebook walks through how to use LangChain for question answering with sources over a list of documents. It covers four different chain types: stuff, map_reduce, refine,map-rerank. For a more in depth explanation of what these chain types are, see here.
Prepare Data#
First we prepare the data. For this example we do similarity search over a vector database, but these documents could be fetched in any manner (the point of this notebook to highlight what to do AFTER you fetch the documents).
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.embeddings.cohere import CohereEmbeddings
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.vectorstores.elastic_vector_search import ElasticVectorSearch
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
with open("../../state_of_the_union.txt") as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
docsearch = Chroma.from_texts(texts, embeddings, metadatas=[{"source": str(i)} for i in range(len(texts))])
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
docs = docsearch.similarity_search(query)
from langchain.chains.qa_with_sources import load_qa_with_sources_chain


from langchain.chains.qa_with_sources import load_qa_with_sources_chain
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
Quickstart#
If you just want to get started as quickly as possible, this is the recommended way to do it:
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.\nSOURCES: 30-pl'}
If you want more control and understanding over what is happening, please see the information below.
The stuff Chain#
This sections shows results of using the stuff Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.\nSOURCES: 30-pl'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
template = """Given the following extracted parts of a long document and a question, create a final answer with references ("SOURCES").
If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know. Don't try to make up an answer.
ALWAYS return a "SOURCES" part in your answer.
Respond in Italian.
QUESTION: {question}
=========
{summaries}
=========
FINAL ANSWER IN ITALIAN:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(template=template, input_variables=["summaries", "question"])


PROMPT = PromptTemplate(template=template, input_variables=["summaries", "question"])
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff", prompt=PROMPT)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': '\nNon so cosa abbia detto il presidente riguardo a Justice Breyer.\nSOURCES: 30, 31, 33'}
The map_reduce Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map_reduce Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.\nSOURCES: 30-pl'}
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for map_reduce chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_intermediate_steps variable.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_intermediate_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': [' "Tonight, I’d like to honor someone who has dedicated his life to serve this country: Justice Stephen Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service."',
  ' None',
  ' None',
  ' None'],


' None',
  ' None',
  ' None'],
 'output_text': ' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.\nSOURCES: 30-pl'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
question_prompt_template = """Use the following portion of a long document to see if any of the text is relevant to answer the question.
Return any relevant text in Italian.
{context}
Question: {question}
Relevant text, if any, in Italian:"""
QUESTION_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=question_prompt_template, input_variables=["context", "question"]
)
combine_prompt_template = """Given the following extracted parts of a long document and a question, create a final answer with references ("SOURCES").
If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know. Don't try to make up an answer.
ALWAYS return a "SOURCES" part in your answer.
Respond in Italian.
QUESTION: {question}
=========
{summaries}
=========
FINAL ANSWER IN ITALIAN:"""
COMBINE_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=combine_prompt_template, input_variables=["summaries", "question"]
)
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_intermediate_steps=True, question_prompt=QUESTION_PROMPT, combine_prompt=COMBINE_PROMPT)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)


chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ["\nStasera vorrei onorare qualcuno che ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese: il giustizia Stephen Breyer - un veterano dell'esercito, uno studioso costituzionale e un giustizia in uscita della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti. Giustizia Breyer, grazie per il tuo servizio.",
  ' Non pertinente.',
  ' Non rilevante.',
  " Non c'è testo pertinente."],
 'output_text': ' Non conosco la risposta. SOURCES: 30, 31, 33, 20.'}
Batch Size
When using the map_reduce chain, one thing to keep in mind is the batch size you are using during the map step. If this is too high, it could cause rate limiting errors. You can control this by setting the batch size on the LLM used. Note that this only applies for LLMs with this parameter. Below is an example of doing so:
llm = OpenAI(batch_size=5, temperature=0)
The refine Chain#
This sections shows results of using the refine Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)


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


chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ['\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service.',
  '\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service, noting his background as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He praised Justice Breyer for being a consensus builder and for receiving a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also noted that in order to advance liberty and justice, it was necessary to secure the border and fix the immigration system, and that the government was taking steps to do both. \n\nSource: 31',


'\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service, noting his background as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He praised Justice Breyer for being a consensus builder and for receiving a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also noted that in order to advance liberty and justice, it was necessary to secure the border and fix the immigration system, and that the government was taking steps to do both. He also mentioned the need to pass the bipartisan Equality Act to protect LGBTQ+ Americans, and to strengthen the Violence Against Women Act that he had written three decades ago. \n\nSource: 31, 33',


'\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service, noting his background as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He praised Justice Breyer for being a consensus builder and for receiving a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also noted that in order to advance liberty and justice, it was necessary to secure the border and fix the immigration system, and that the government was taking steps to do both. He also mentioned the need to pass the bipartisan Equality Act to protect LGBTQ+ Americans, and to strengthen the Violence Against Women Act that he had written three decades ago. Additionally, he mentioned his plan to lower costs to give families a fair shot, lower the deficit, and go after criminals who stole billions in relief money meant for small businesses and millions of Americans. He also announced that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud. \n\nSource: 20, 31, 33'],


'output_text': '\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service, noting his background as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He praised Justice Breyer for being a consensus builder and for receiving a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also noted that in order to advance liberty and justice, it was necessary to secure the border and fix the immigration system, and that the government was taking steps to do both. He also mentioned the need to pass the bipartisan Equality Act to protect LGBTQ+ Americans, and to strengthen the Violence Against Women Act that he had written three decades ago. Additionally, he mentioned his plan to lower costs to give families a fair shot, lower the deficit, and go after criminals who stole billions in relief money meant for small businesses and millions of Americans. He also announced that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud. \n\nSource: 20, 31, 33'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
refine_template = (
    "The original question is as follows: {question}\n"
    "We have provided an existing answer, including sources: {existing_answer}\n"
    "We have the opportunity to refine the existing answer"
    "(only if needed) with some more context below.\n"
    "------------\n"
    "{context_str}\n"
    "------------\n"
    "Given the new context, refine the original answer to better "
    "answer the question (in Italian)"


"answer the question (in Italian)"
    "If you do update it, please update the sources as well. "
    "If the context isn't useful, return the original answer."
)
refine_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["question", "existing_answer", "context_str"],
    template=refine_template,
)
question_template = (
    "Context information is below. \n"
    "---------------------\n"
    "{context_str}"
    "\n---------------------\n"
    "Given the context information and not prior knowledge, "
    "answer the question in Italian: {question}\n"
)
question_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["context_str", "question"], template=question_template
)
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_intermediate_steps=True, question_prompt=question_prompt, refine_prompt=refine_prompt)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ['\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera.',


"\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha onorato la sua carriera e ha contribuito a costruire un consenso. Ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani. Inoltre, ha sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere e la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione. Ha anche menzionato le nuove tecnologie come scanner all'avanguardia per rilevare meglio il traffico di droga, le pattuglie congiunte con Messico e Guatemala per catturare più trafficanti di esseri umani, l'istituzione di giudici di immigrazione dedicati per far sì che le famiglie che fuggono da per",


"\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha onorato la sua carriera e ha contribuito a costruire un consenso. Ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani. Inoltre, ha sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere e la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione. Ha anche menzionato le nuove tecnologie come scanner all'avanguardia per rilevare meglio il traffico di droga, le pattuglie congiunte con Messico e Guatemala per catturare più trafficanti di esseri umani, l'istituzione di giudici di immigrazione dedicati per far sì che le famiglie che fuggono da per"],


'output_text': "\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha onorato la sua carriera e ha contribuito a costruire un consenso. Ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani. Inoltre, ha sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere e la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione. Ha anche menzionato le nuove tecnologie come scanner all'avanguardia per rilevare meglio il traffico di droga, le pattuglie congiunte con Messico e Guatemala per catturare più trafficanti di esseri umani, l'istituzione di giudici di immigrazione dedicati per far sì che le famiglie che fuggono da per"}
The map-rerank Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map-rerank Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_rerank", metadata_keys=['source'], return_intermediate_steps=True)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
result = chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
result["output_text"]
' The President thanked Justice Breyer for his service and honored him for dedicating his life to serve the country.'
result["intermediate_steps"]
[{'answer': ' The President thanked Justice Breyer for his service and honored him for dedicating his life to serve the country.',
  'score': '100'},


'score': '100'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'}]
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
from langchain.output_parsers import RegexParser
output_parser = RegexParser(
    regex=r"(.*?)\nScore: (.*)",
    output_keys=["answer", "score"],
)
prompt_template = """Use the following pieces of context to answer the question at the end. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer.
In addition to giving an answer, also return a score of how fully it answered the user's question. This should be in the following format:
Question: [question here]
Helpful Answer In Italian: [answer here]
Score: [score between 0 and 100]
Begin!
Context:
---------
{context}
---------
Question: {question}
Helpful Answer In Italian:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=prompt_template,
    input_variables=["context", "question"],
    output_parser=output_parser,
)
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_rerank", metadata_keys=['source'], return_intermediate_steps=True, prompt=PROMPT)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
result = chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
result
{'source': 30,


result
{'source': 30,
 'intermediate_steps': [{'answer': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera.',
   'score': '100'},
  {'answer': ' Il presidente non ha detto nulla sulla Giustizia Breyer.',
   'score': '100'},
  {'answer': ' Non so.', 'score': '0'},
  {'answer': ' Il presidente non ha detto nulla sulla giustizia Breyer.',
   'score': '100'}],
 'output_text': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera.'}
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Retrieval Question/Answering
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Custom Prompts
Return Source Documents
Retrieval Question/Answering#
This example showcases question answering over an index.
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chains import RetrievalQA
from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader
loader = TextLoader("../../state_of_the_union.txt")
documents = loader.load()
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_documents(documents)
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
docsearch = Chroma.from_documents(texts, embeddings)
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
qa = RetrievalQA.from_chain_type(llm=OpenAI(), chain_type="stuff", retriever=docsearch.as_retriever())
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
qa.run(query)
" The president said that she is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He also said that she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support, from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans."
Chain Type#
You can easily specify different chain types to load and use in the RetrievalQA chain. For a more detailed walkthrough of these types, please see this notebook.


There are two ways to load different chain types. First, you can specify the chain type argument in the from_chain_type method. This allows you to pass in the name of the chain type you want to use. For example, in the below we change the chain type to map_reduce.
qa = RetrievalQA.from_chain_type(llm=OpenAI(), chain_type="map_reduce", retriever=docsearch.as_retriever())
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
qa.run(query)
" The president said that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of our nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice and a former federal public defender, from a family of public school educators and police officers, a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans."
The above way allows you to really simply change the chain_type, but it does provide a ton of flexibility over parameters to that chain type. If you want to control those parameters, you can load the chain directly (as you did in this notebook) and then pass that directly to the the RetrievalQA chain with the combine_documents_chain parameter. For example:
from langchain.chains.question_answering import load_qa_chain
qa_chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
qa = RetrievalQA(combine_documents_chain=qa_chain, retriever=docsearch.as_retriever())
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
qa.run(query)


qa.run(query)
" The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He also said that she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans."
Custom Prompts#
You can pass in custom prompts to do question answering. These prompts are the same prompts as you can pass into the base question answering chain
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
prompt_template = """Use the following pieces of context to answer the question at the end. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer.
{context}
Question: {question}
Answer in Italian:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=prompt_template, input_variables=["context", "question"]
)
chain_type_kwargs = {"prompt": PROMPT}
qa = RetrievalQA.from_chain_type(llm=OpenAI(), chain_type="stuff", retriever=docsearch.as_retriever(), chain_type_kwargs=chain_type_kwargs)
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
qa.run(query)
" Il presidente ha detto che Ketanji Brown Jackson è una delle menti legali più importanti del paese, che continuerà l'eccellenza di Justice Breyer e che ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, da Fraternal Order of Police a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani."
Return Source Documents#
Additionally, we can return the source documents used to answer the question by specifying an optional parameter when constructing the chain.


qa = RetrievalQA.from_chain_type(llm=OpenAI(), chain_type="stuff", retriever=docsearch.as_retriever(), return_source_documents=True)
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = qa({"query": query})
result["result"]
" The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice and a former federal public defender from a family of public school educators and police officers, and that she has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans."
result["source_documents"]
[Document(page_content='Tonight. I call on the Senate to: Pass the Freedom to Vote Act. Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. And while you’re at it, pass the Disclose Act so Americans can know who is funding our elections. \n\nTonight, I’d like to honor someone who has dedicated his life to serve this country: Justice Stephen Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service. \n\nOne of the most serious constitutional responsibilities a President has is nominating someone to serve on the United States Supreme Court. \n\nAnd I did that 4 days ago, when I nominated Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. One of our nation’s top legal minds, who will continue Justice Breyer’s legacy of excellence.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0),


Document(page_content='A former top litigator in private practice. A former federal public defender. And from a family of public school educators and police officers. A consensus builder. Since she’s been nominated, she’s received a broad range of support—from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. \n\nAnd if we are to advance liberty and justice, we need to secure the Border and fix the immigration system. \n\nWe can do both. At our border, we’ve installed new technology like cutting-edge scanners to better detect drug smuggling.  \n\nWe’ve set up joint patrols with Mexico and Guatemala to catch more human traffickers.  \n\nWe’re putting in place dedicated immigration judges so families fleeing persecution and violence can have their cases heard faster. \n\nWe’re securing commitments and supporting partners in South and Central America to host more refugees and secure their own borders.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0),


Document(page_content='And for our LGBTQ+ Americans, let’s finally get the bipartisan Equality Act to my desk. The onslaught of state laws targeting transgender Americans and their families is wrong. \n\nAs I said last year, especially to our younger transgender Americans, I will always have your back as your President, so you can be yourself and reach your God-given potential. \n\nWhile it often appears that we never agree, that isn’t true. I signed 80 bipartisan bills into law last year. From preventing government shutdowns to protecting Asian-Americans from still-too-common hate crimes to reforming military justice. \n\nAnd soon, we’ll strengthen the Violence Against Women Act that I first wrote three decades ago. It is important for us to show the nation that we can come together and do big things. \n\nSo tonight I’m offering a Unity Agenda for the Nation. Four big things we can do together.  \n\nFirst, beat the opioid epidemic.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0),


Document(page_content='Tonight, I’m announcing a crackdown on these companies overcharging American businesses and consumers. \n\nAnd as Wall Street firms take over more nursing homes, quality in those homes has gone down and costs have gone up.  \n\nThat ends on my watch. \n\nMedicare is going to set higher standards for nursing homes and make sure your loved ones get the care they deserve and expect. \n\nWe’ll also cut costs and keep the economy going strong by giving workers a fair shot, provide more training and apprenticeships, hire them based on their skills not degrees. \n\nLet’s pass the Paycheck Fairness Act and paid leave.  \n\nRaise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and extend the Child Tax Credit, so no one has to raise a family in poverty. \n\nLet’s increase Pell Grants and increase our historic support of HBCUs, and invest in what Jill—our First Lady who teaches full-time—calls America’s best-kept secret: community colleges.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0)]
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By Harrison Chase

      © Copyright 2023, Harrison Chase.

  Last updated on Jun 11, 2023.


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SQL Chain example
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Use Query Checker
Customize Prompt
Return Intermediate Steps
Choosing how to limit the number of rows returned
Adding example rows from each table
Custom Table Info
SQLDatabaseSequentialChain
Using Local Language Models
SQL Chain example#
This example demonstrates the use of the SQLDatabaseChain for answering questions over a database.
Under the hood, LangChain uses SQLAlchemy to connect to SQL databases. The SQLDatabaseChain can therefore be used with any SQL dialect supported by SQLAlchemy, such as MS SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle SQL, Databricks and SQLite. Please refer to the SQLAlchemy documentation for more information about requirements for connecting to your database. For example, a connection to MySQL requires an appropriate connector such as PyMySQL. A URI for a MySQL connection might look like: mysql+pymysql://user:pass@some_mysql_db_address/db_name.
This demonstration uses SQLite and the example Chinook database.
To set it up, follow the instructions on https://database.guide/2-sample-databases-sqlite/, placing the .db file in a notebooks folder at the root of this repository.
from langchain import OpenAI, SQLDatabase, SQLDatabaseChain
db = SQLDatabase.from_uri("sqlite:///../../../../notebooks/Chinook.db")
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0, verbose=True)
NOTE: For data-sensitive projects, you can specify return_direct=True in the SQLDatabaseChain initialization to directly return the output of the SQL query without any additional formatting. This prevents the LLM from seeing any contents within the database. Note, however, the LLM still has access to the database scheme (i.e. dialect, table and key names) by default.
db_chain = SQLDatabaseChain.from_llm(llm, db, verbose=True)
db_chain.run("How many employees are there?")


db_chain.run("How many employees are there?")
> Entering new SQLDatabaseChain chain...
How many employees are there?
SQLQuery:
/workspace/langchain/langchain/sql_database.py:191: SAWarning: Dialect sqlite+pysqlite does *not* support Decimal objects natively, and SQLAlchemy must convert from floating point - rounding errors and other issues may occur. Please consider storing Decimal numbers as strings or integers on this platform for lossless storage.
  sample_rows = connection.execute(command)
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "Employee";
SQLResult: [(8,)]
Answer:There are 8 employees.
> Finished chain.
'There are 8 employees.'
Use Query Checker#
Sometimes the Language Model generates invalid SQL with small mistakes that can be self-corrected using the same technique used by the SQL Database Agent to try and fix the SQL using the LLM. You can simply specify this option when creating the chain:
db_chain = SQLDatabaseChain.from_llm(llm, db, verbose=True, use_query_checker=True)
db_chain.run("How many albums by Aerosmith?")
> Entering new SQLDatabaseChain chain...
How many albums by Aerosmith?
SQLQuery:SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Album WHERE ArtistId = 3;
SQLResult: [(1,)]
Answer:There is 1 album by Aerosmith.
> Finished chain.
'There is 1 album by Aerosmith.'
Customize Prompt#
You can also customize the prompt that is used. Here is an example prompting it to understand that foobar is the same as the Employee table
from langchain.prompts.prompt import PromptTemplate
_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE = """Given an input question, first create a syntactically correct {dialect} query to run, then look at the results of the query and return the answer.
Use the following format:
Question: "Question here"


Use the following format:
Question: "Question here"
SQLQuery: "SQL Query to run"
SQLResult: "Result of the SQLQuery"
Answer: "Final answer here"
Only use the following tables:
{table_info}
If someone asks for the table foobar, they really mean the employee table.
Question: {input}"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["input", "table_info", "dialect"], template=_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE
)
db_chain = SQLDatabaseChain.from_llm(llm, db, prompt=PROMPT, verbose=True)
db_chain.run("How many employees are there in the foobar table?")
> Entering new SQLDatabaseChain chain...
How many employees are there in the foobar table?
SQLQuery:SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Employee;
SQLResult: [(8,)]
Answer:There are 8 employees in the foobar table.
> Finished chain.
'There are 8 employees in the foobar table.'
Return Intermediate Steps#
You can also return the intermediate steps of the SQLDatabaseChain. This allows you to access the SQL statement that was generated, as well as the result of running that against the SQL Database.
db_chain = SQLDatabaseChain.from_llm(llm, db, prompt=PROMPT, verbose=True, use_query_checker=True, return_intermediate_steps=True)
result = db_chain("How many employees are there in the foobar table?")
result["intermediate_steps"]
> Entering new SQLDatabaseChain chain...
How many employees are there in the foobar table?
SQLQuery:SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Employee;
SQLResult: [(8,)]
Answer:There are 8 employees in the foobar table.
> Finished chain.


Answer:There are 8 employees in the foobar table.
> Finished chain.
[{'input': 'How many employees are there in the foobar table?\nSQLQuery:SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Employee;\nSQLResult: [(8,)]\nAnswer:',
  'top_k': '5',
  'dialect': 'sqlite',


'table_info': '\nCREATE TABLE "Artist" (\n\t"ArtistId" INTEGER NOT NULL, \n\t"Name" NVARCHAR(120), \n\tPRIMARY KEY ("ArtistId")\n)\n\n/*\n3 rows from Artist table:\nArtistId\tName\n1\tAC/DC\n2\tAccept\n3\tAerosmith\n*/\n\n\nCREATE TABLE "Employee" (\n\t"EmployeeId" INTEGER NOT NULL, \n\t"LastName" NVARCHAR(20) NOT NULL, \n\t"FirstName" NVARCHAR(20) NOT NULL, \n\t"Title" NVARCHAR(30), \n\t"ReportsTo" INTEGER, \n\t"BirthDate" DATETIME, \n\t"HireDate" DATETIME, \n\t"Address" NVARCHAR(70), \n\t"City" NVARCHAR(40), \n\t"State" NVARCHAR(40), \n\t"Country" NVARCHAR(40), \n\t"PostalCode" NVARCHAR(10), \n\t"Phone" NVARCHAR(24), \n\t"Fax" NVARCHAR(24), \n\t"Email" NVARCHAR(60), \n\tPRIMARY KEY ("EmployeeId"), \n\tFOREIGN KEY("ReportsTo") REFERENCES "Employee" ("EmployeeId")\n)\n\n/*\n3 rows from Employee table:\nEmployeeId\tLastName\tFirstName\tTitle\tReportsTo\tBirthDate\tHireDate\tAddress\tCity\tState\tCountry\tPostalCode\tPhone\tFax\tEmail\n1\tAdams\tAndrew\tGeneral Manager\tNone\t1962-02-18 00:00:00\t2002-08-14 00:00:00\t11120 Jasper Ave NW\tEdmonton\tAB\tCanada\tT5K 2N1\t+1 (780)