prompt = load_prompt("simple_prompt.yaml")
print(prompt.format(adjective="funny", content="chickens"))
Tell me a funny joke about chickens.
Loading from JSON#
This shows an example of loading a PromptTemplate from JSON.
!cat simple_prompt.json
{
    "_type": "prompt",
    "input_variables": ["adjective", "content"],
    "template": "Tell me a {adjective} joke about {content}."
}
prompt = load_prompt("simple_prompt.json")
print(prompt.format(adjective="funny", content="chickens"))
Tell me a funny joke about chickens.
Loading Template from a File#
This shows an example of storing the template in a separate file and then referencing it in the config. Notice that the key changes from template to template_path.
!cat simple_template.txt
Tell me a {adjective} joke about {content}.
!cat simple_prompt_with_template_file.json
{
    "_type": "prompt",
    "input_variables": ["adjective", "content"],
    "template_path": "simple_template.txt"
}
prompt = load_prompt("simple_prompt_with_template_file.json")
print(prompt.format(adjective="funny", content="chickens"))
Tell me a funny joke about chickens.
FewShotPromptTemplate#
This section covers examples for loading few shot prompt templates.
Examples#
This shows an example of what examples stored as json might look like.
!cat examples.json
[
    {"input": "happy", "output": "sad"},
    {"input": "tall", "output": "short"}
]
And here is what the same examples stored as yaml might look like.
!cat examples.yaml
- input: happy
  output: sad
- input: tall
  output: short
Loading from YAML#


output: sad
- input: tall
  output: short
Loading from YAML#
This shows an example of loading a few shot example from YAML.
!cat few_shot_prompt.yaml
_type: few_shot
input_variables:
    ["adjective"]
prefix:
    Write antonyms for the following words.
example_prompt:
    _type: prompt
    input_variables:
        ["input", "output"]
    template:
        "Input: {input}\nOutput: {output}"
examples:
    examples.json
suffix:
    "Input: {adjective}\nOutput:"
prompt = load_prompt("few_shot_prompt.yaml")
print(prompt.format(adjective="funny"))
Write antonyms for the following words.
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: tall
Output: short
Input: funny
Output:
The same would work if you loaded examples from the yaml file.
!cat few_shot_prompt_yaml_examples.yaml
_type: few_shot
input_variables:
    ["adjective"]
prefix:
    Write antonyms for the following words.
example_prompt:
    _type: prompt
    input_variables:
        ["input", "output"]
    template:
        "Input: {input}\nOutput: {output}"
examples:
    examples.yaml
suffix:
    "Input: {adjective}\nOutput:"
prompt = load_prompt("few_shot_prompt_yaml_examples.yaml")
print(prompt.format(adjective="funny"))
Write antonyms for the following words.
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: tall
Output: short
Input: funny
Output:
Loading from JSON#
This shows an example of loading a few shot example from JSON.
!cat few_shot_prompt.json
{
    "_type": "few_shot",


!cat few_shot_prompt.json
{
    "_type": "few_shot",
    "input_variables": ["adjective"],
    "prefix": "Write antonyms for the following words.",
    "example_prompt": {
        "_type": "prompt",
        "input_variables": ["input", "output"],
        "template": "Input: {input}\nOutput: {output}"
    },
    "examples": "examples.json",
    "suffix": "Input: {adjective}\nOutput:"
}
prompt = load_prompt("few_shot_prompt.json")
print(prompt.format(adjective="funny"))
Write antonyms for the following words.
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: tall
Output: short
Input: funny
Output:
Examples in the Config#
This shows an example of referencing the examples directly in the config.
!cat few_shot_prompt_examples_in.json
{
    "_type": "few_shot",
    "input_variables": ["adjective"],
    "prefix": "Write antonyms for the following words.",
    "example_prompt": {
        "_type": "prompt",
        "input_variables": ["input", "output"],
        "template": "Input: {input}\nOutput: {output}"
    },
    "examples": [
        {"input": "happy", "output": "sad"},
        {"input": "tall", "output": "short"}
    ],
    "suffix": "Input: {adjective}\nOutput:"
}
prompt = load_prompt("few_shot_prompt_examples_in.json")
print(prompt.format(adjective="funny"))
Write antonyms for the following words.
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: tall
Output: short
Input: funny
Output:
Example Prompt from a File#


Output: short
Input: funny
Output:
Example Prompt from a File#
This shows an example of loading the PromptTemplate that is used to format the examples from a separate file. Note that the key changes from example_prompt to example_prompt_path.
!cat example_prompt.json
{
    "_type": "prompt",
    "input_variables": ["input", "output"],
    "template": "Input: {input}\nOutput: {output}"
}
!cat few_shot_prompt_example_prompt.json
{
    "_type": "few_shot",
    "input_variables": ["adjective"],
    "prefix": "Write antonyms for the following words.",
    "example_prompt_path": "example_prompt.json",
    "examples": "examples.json",
    "suffix": "Input: {adjective}\nOutput:"
}
prompt = load_prompt("few_shot_prompt_example_prompt.json")
print(prompt.format(adjective="funny"))
Write antonyms for the following words.
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: tall
Output: short
Input: funny
Output:
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Partial With Strings
Partial With Functions
How to work with partial Prompt Templates#
A prompt template is a class with a .format method which takes in a key-value map and returns a string (a prompt) to pass to the language model. Like other methods, it can make sense to “partial” a prompt template - eg pass in a subset of the required values, as to create a new prompt template which expects only the remaining subset of values.
LangChain supports this in two ways: we allow for partially formatted prompts (1) with string values, (2) with functions that return string values. These two different ways support different use cases. In the documentation below we go over the motivations for both use cases as well as how to do it in LangChain.
Partial With Strings#
One common use case for wanting to partial a prompt template is if you get some of the variables before others. For example, suppose you have a prompt template that requires two variables, foo and baz. If you get the foo value early on in the chain, but the baz value later, it can be annoying to wait until you have both variables in the same place to pass them to the prompt template. Instead, you can partial the prompt template with the foo value, and then pass the partialed prompt template along and just use that. Below is an example of doing this:
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
prompt = PromptTemplate(template="{foo}{bar}", input_variables=["foo", "bar"])
partial_prompt = prompt.partial(foo="foo");
print(partial_prompt.format(bar="baz"))
foobaz
You can also just initialize the prompt with the partialed variables.
prompt = PromptTemplate(template="{foo}{bar}", input_variables=["bar"], partial_variables={"foo": "foo"})
print(prompt.format(bar="baz"))
foobaz


print(prompt.format(bar="baz"))
foobaz
Partial With Functions#
The other common use is to partial with a function. The use case for this is when you have a variable you know that you always want to fetch in a common way. A prime example of this is with date or time. Imagine you have a prompt which you always want to have the current date. You can’t hard code it in the prompt, and passing it along with the other input variables is a bit annoying. In this case, it’s very handy to be able to partial the prompt with a function that always returns the current date.
from datetime import datetime
def _get_datetime():
    now = datetime.now()
    return now.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S")
prompt = PromptTemplate(
    template="Tell me a {adjective} joke about the day {date}",
    input_variables=["adjective", "date"]
);
partial_prompt = prompt.partial(date=_get_datetime)
print(partial_prompt.format(adjective="funny"))
Tell me a funny joke about the day 02/27/2023, 22:15:16
You can also just initialize the prompt with the partialed variables, which often makes more sense in this workflow.
prompt = PromptTemplate(
    template="Tell me a {adjective} joke about the day {date}",
    input_variables=["adjective"],
    partial_variables={"date": _get_datetime}
);
print(prompt.format(adjective="funny"))
Tell me a funny joke about the day 02/27/2023, 22:15:16
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How to create a prompt template that uses few shot examples
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Use Case
Using an example set
Create the example set
Create a formatter for the few shot examples
Feed examples and formatter to FewShotPromptTemplate
Using an example selector
Feed examples into ExampleSelector
Feed example selector into FewShotPromptTemplate
How to create a prompt template that uses few shot examples#
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a prompt template that uses few shot examples.
We’ll use the FewShotPromptTemplate class to create a prompt template that uses few shot examples. This class either takes in a set of examples, or an ExampleSelector object. In this tutorial, we’ll go over both options.
Use Case#
In this tutorial, we’ll configure few shot examples for self-ask with search.
Using an example set#
Create the example set#
To get started, create a list of few shot examples. Each example should be a dictionary with the keys being the input variables and the values being the values for those input variables.
from langchain.prompts.few_shot import FewShotPromptTemplate
from langchain.prompts.prompt import PromptTemplate
examples = [
  {
    "question": "Who lived longer, Muhammad Ali or Alan Turing?",
    "answer":
"""
Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.
Follow up: How old was Muhammad Ali when he died?
Intermediate answer: Muhammad Ali was 74 years old when he died.
Follow up: How old was Alan Turing when he died?
Intermediate answer: Alan Turing was 41 years old when he died.
So the final answer is: Muhammad Ali
"""
  },
  {
    "question": "When was the founder of craigslist born?",
    "answer":
"""
Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.


"answer":
"""
Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.
Follow up: Who was the founder of craigslist?
Intermediate answer: Craigslist was founded by Craig Newmark.
Follow up: When was Craig Newmark born?
Intermediate answer: Craig Newmark was born on December 6, 1952.
So the final answer is: December 6, 1952
"""
  },
  {
    "question": "Who was the maternal grandfather of George Washington?",
    "answer":
"""
Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.
Follow up: Who was the mother of George Washington?
Intermediate answer: The mother of George Washington was Mary Ball Washington.
Follow up: Who was the father of Mary Ball Washington?
Intermediate answer: The father of Mary Ball Washington was Joseph Ball.
So the final answer is: Joseph Ball
"""
  },
  {
    "question": "Are both the directors of Jaws and Casino Royale from the same country?",
    "answer":
"""
Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.
Follow up: Who is the director of Jaws?
Intermediate Answer: The director of Jaws is Steven Spielberg.
Follow up: Where is Steven Spielberg from?
Intermediate Answer: The United States.
Follow up: Who is the director of Casino Royale?
Intermediate Answer: The director of Casino Royale is Martin Campbell.
Follow up: Where is Martin Campbell from?
Intermediate Answer: New Zealand.
So the final answer is: No
"""
  }
]
Create a formatter for the few shot examples#
Configure a formatter that will format the few shot examples into a string. This formatter should be a PromptTemplate object.
example_prompt = PromptTemplate(input_variables=["question", "answer"], template="Question: {question}\n{answer}")


print(example_prompt.format(**examples[0]))
Question: Who lived longer, Muhammad Ali or Alan Turing?
Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.
Follow up: How old was Muhammad Ali when he died?
Intermediate answer: Muhammad Ali was 74 years old when he died.
Follow up: How old was Alan Turing when he died?
Intermediate answer: Alan Turing was 41 years old when he died.
So the final answer is: Muhammad Ali
Feed examples and formatter to FewShotPromptTemplate#
Finally, create a FewShotPromptTemplate object. This object takes in the few shot examples and the formatter for the few shot examples.
prompt = FewShotPromptTemplate(
    examples=examples,
    example_prompt=example_prompt,
    suffix="Question: {input}",
    input_variables=["input"]
)
print(prompt.format(input="Who was the father of Mary Ball Washington?"))
Question: Who lived longer, Muhammad Ali or Alan Turing?
Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.
Follow up: How old was Muhammad Ali when he died?
Intermediate answer: Muhammad Ali was 74 years old when he died.
Follow up: How old was Alan Turing when he died?
Intermediate answer: Alan Turing was 41 years old when he died.
So the final answer is: Muhammad Ali
Question: When was the founder of craigslist born?
Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.
Follow up: Who was the founder of craigslist?
Intermediate answer: Craigslist was founded by Craig Newmark.
Follow up: When was Craig Newmark born?
Intermediate answer: Craig Newmark was born on December 6, 1952.
So the final answer is: December 6, 1952
Question: Who was the maternal grandfather of George Washington?
Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.


Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.
Follow up: Who was the mother of George Washington?
Intermediate answer: The mother of George Washington was Mary Ball Washington.
Follow up: Who was the father of Mary Ball Washington?
Intermediate answer: The father of Mary Ball Washington was Joseph Ball.
So the final answer is: Joseph Ball
Question: Are both the directors of Jaws and Casino Royale from the same country?
Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.
Follow up: Who is the director of Jaws?
Intermediate Answer: The director of Jaws is Steven Spielberg.
Follow up: Where is Steven Spielberg from?
Intermediate Answer: The United States.
Follow up: Who is the director of Casino Royale?
Intermediate Answer: The director of Casino Royale is Martin Campbell.
Follow up: Where is Martin Campbell from?
Intermediate Answer: New Zealand.
So the final answer is: No
Question: Who was the father of Mary Ball Washington?
Using an example selector#
Feed examples into ExampleSelector#
We will reuse the example set and the formatter from the previous section. However, instead of feeding the examples directly into the FewShotPromptTemplate object, we will feed them into an ExampleSelector object.
In this tutorial, we will use the SemanticSimilarityExampleSelector class. This class selects few shot examples based on their similarity to the input. It uses an embedding model to compute the similarity between the input and the few shot examples, as well as a vector store to perform the nearest neighbor search.
from langchain.prompts.example_selector import SemanticSimilarityExampleSelector
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings
example_selector = SemanticSimilarityExampleSelector.from_examples(
    # This is the list of examples available to select from.
    examples,


# This is the list of examples available to select from.
    examples,
    # This is the embedding class used to produce embeddings which are used to measure semantic similarity.
    OpenAIEmbeddings(),
    # This is the VectorStore class that is used to store the embeddings and do a similarity search over.
    Chroma,
    # This is the number of examples to produce.
    k=1
)
# Select the most similar example to the input.
question = "Who was the father of Mary Ball Washington?"
selected_examples = example_selector.select_examples({"question": question})
print(f"Examples most similar to the input: {question}")
for example in selected_examples:
    print("\n")
    for k, v in example.items():
        print(f"{k}: {v}")
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
Examples most similar to the input: Who was the father of Mary Ball Washington?
question: Who was the maternal grandfather of George Washington?
answer:
Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.
Follow up: Who was the mother of George Washington?
Intermediate answer: The mother of George Washington was Mary Ball Washington.
Follow up: Who was the father of Mary Ball Washington?
Intermediate answer: The father of Mary Ball Washington was Joseph Ball.
So the final answer is: Joseph Ball
Feed example selector into FewShotPromptTemplate#
Finally, create a FewShotPromptTemplate object. This object takes in the example selector and the formatter for the few shot examples.
prompt = FewShotPromptTemplate(
    example_selector=example_selector,
    example_prompt=example_prompt,
    suffix="Question: {input}",
    input_variables=["input"]
)


suffix="Question: {input}",
    input_variables=["input"]
)
print(prompt.format(input="Who was the father of Mary Ball Washington?"))
Question: Who was the maternal grandfather of George Washington?
Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.
Follow up: Who was the mother of George Washington?
Intermediate answer: The mother of George Washington was Mary Ball Washington.
Follow up: Who was the father of Mary Ball Washington?
Intermediate answer: The father of Mary Ball Washington was Joseph Ball.
So the final answer is: Joseph Ball
Question: Who was the father of Mary Ball Washington?
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Create a formatter for the few shot examples
Feed examples and formatter to FewShotPromptTemplate
Using an example selector
Feed examples into ExampleSelector
Feed example selector into FewShotPromptTemplate
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NGram Overlap ExampleSelector
NGram Overlap ExampleSelector#
The NGramOverlapExampleSelector selects and orders examples based on which examples are most similar to the input, according to an ngram overlap score. The ngram overlap score is a float between 0.0 and 1.0, inclusive.
The selector allows for a threshold score to be set. Examples with an ngram overlap score less than or equal to the threshold are excluded. The threshold is set to -1.0, by default, so will not exclude any examples, only reorder them. Setting the threshold to 0.0 will exclude examples that have no ngram overlaps with the input.
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
from langchain.prompts.example_selector.ngram_overlap import NGramOverlapExampleSelector
from langchain.prompts import FewShotPromptTemplate, PromptTemplate
example_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["input", "output"],
    template="Input: {input}\nOutput: {output}",
)
# These are a lot of examples of a pretend task of creating antonyms.
examples = [
    {"input": "happy", "output": "sad"},
    {"input": "tall", "output": "short"},
    {"input": "energetic", "output": "lethargic"},
    {"input": "sunny", "output": "gloomy"},
    {"input": "windy", "output": "calm"},
]
# These are examples of a fictional translation task.
examples = [
    {"input": "See Spot run.", "output": "Ver correr a Spot."},
    {"input": "My dog barks.", "output": "Mi perro ladra."},
    {"input": "Spot can run.", "output": "Spot puede correr."},


{"input": "Spot can run.", "output": "Spot puede correr."},
]
example_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["input", "output"],
    template="Input: {input}\nOutput: {output}",
)
example_selector = NGramOverlapExampleSelector(
    # These are the examples it has available to choose from.
    examples=examples,
    # This is the PromptTemplate being used to format the examples.
    example_prompt=example_prompt,
    # This is the threshold, at which selector stops.
    # It is set to -1.0 by default.
    threshold=-1.0,
    # For negative threshold:
    # Selector sorts examples by ngram overlap score, and excludes none.
    # For threshold greater than 1.0:
    # Selector excludes all examples, and returns an empty list.
    # For threshold equal to 0.0:
    # Selector sorts examples by ngram overlap score,
    # and excludes those with no ngram overlap with input.
)
dynamic_prompt = FewShotPromptTemplate(
    # We provide an ExampleSelector instead of examples.
    example_selector=example_selector,
    example_prompt=example_prompt,
    prefix="Give the Spanish translation of every input",
    suffix="Input: {sentence}\nOutput:",
    input_variables=["sentence"],
)
# An example input with large ngram overlap with "Spot can run."
# and no overlap with "My dog barks."
print(dynamic_prompt.format(sentence="Spot can run fast."))
Give the Spanish translation of every input
Input: Spot can run.
Output: Spot puede correr.
Input: See Spot run.
Output: Ver correr a Spot.
Input: My dog barks.


Output: Ver correr a Spot.
Input: My dog barks.
Output: Mi perro ladra.
Input: Spot can run fast.
Output:
# You can add examples to NGramOverlapExampleSelector as well.
new_example = {"input": "Spot plays fetch.", "output": "Spot juega a buscar."}
example_selector.add_example(new_example)
print(dynamic_prompt.format(sentence="Spot can run fast."))
Give the Spanish translation of every input
Input: Spot can run.
Output: Spot puede correr.
Input: See Spot run.
Output: Ver correr a Spot.
Input: Spot plays fetch.
Output: Spot juega a buscar.
Input: My dog barks.
Output: Mi perro ladra.
Input: Spot can run fast.
Output:
# You can set a threshold at which examples are excluded.
# For example, setting threshold equal to 0.0
# excludes examples with no ngram overlaps with input.
# Since "My dog barks." has no ngram overlaps with "Spot can run fast."
# it is excluded.
example_selector.threshold=0.0
print(dynamic_prompt.format(sentence="Spot can run fast."))
Give the Spanish translation of every input
Input: Spot can run.
Output: Spot puede correr.
Input: See Spot run.
Output: Ver correr a Spot.
Input: Spot plays fetch.
Output: Spot juega a buscar.
Input: Spot can run fast.
Output:
# Setting small nonzero threshold
example_selector.threshold=0.09
print(dynamic_prompt.format(sentence="Spot can play fetch."))
Give the Spanish translation of every input
Input: Spot can run.
Output: Spot puede correr.
Input: Spot plays fetch.
Output: Spot juega a buscar.


Input: Spot plays fetch.
Output: Spot juega a buscar.
Input: Spot can play fetch.
Output:
# Setting threshold greater than 1.0
example_selector.threshold=1.0+1e-9
print(dynamic_prompt.format(sentence="Spot can play fetch."))
Give the Spanish translation of every input
Input: Spot can play fetch.
Output:
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LengthBased ExampleSelector#
This ExampleSelector selects which examples to use based on length. This is useful when you are worried about constructing a prompt that will go over the length of the context window. For longer inputs, it will select fewer examples to include, while for shorter inputs it will select more.
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
from langchain.prompts import FewShotPromptTemplate
from langchain.prompts.example_selector import LengthBasedExampleSelector
# These are a lot of examples of a pretend task of creating antonyms.
examples = [
    {"input": "happy", "output": "sad"},
    {"input": "tall", "output": "short"},
    {"input": "energetic", "output": "lethargic"},
    {"input": "sunny", "output": "gloomy"},
    {"input": "windy", "output": "calm"},
]
example_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["input", "output"],
    template="Input: {input}\nOutput: {output}",
)
example_selector = LengthBasedExampleSelector(
    # These are the examples it has available to choose from.
    examples=examples,
    # This is the PromptTemplate being used to format the examples.
    example_prompt=example_prompt,
    # This is the maximum length that the formatted examples should be.
    # Length is measured by the get_text_length function below.
    max_length=25,
    # This is the function used to get the length of a string, which is used
    # to determine which examples to include. It is commented out because
    # it is provided as a default value if none is specified.


# it is provided as a default value if none is specified.
    # get_text_length: Callable[[str], int] = lambda x: len(re.split("\n| ", x))
)
dynamic_prompt = FewShotPromptTemplate(
    # We provide an ExampleSelector instead of examples.
    example_selector=example_selector,
    example_prompt=example_prompt,
    prefix="Give the antonym of every input",
    suffix="Input: {adjective}\nOutput:",
    input_variables=["adjective"],
)
# An example with small input, so it selects all examples.
print(dynamic_prompt.format(adjective="big"))
Give the antonym of every input
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: tall
Output: short
Input: energetic
Output: lethargic
Input: sunny
Output: gloomy
Input: windy
Output: calm
Input: big
Output:
# An example with long input, so it selects only one example.
long_string = "big and huge and massive and large and gigantic and tall and much much much much much bigger than everything else"
print(dynamic_prompt.format(adjective=long_string))
Give the antonym of every input
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: big and huge and massive and large and gigantic and tall and much much much much much bigger than everything else
Output:
# You can add an example to an example selector as well.
new_example = {"input": "big", "output": "small"}
dynamic_prompt.example_selector.add_example(new_example)
print(dynamic_prompt.format(adjective="enthusiastic"))
Give the antonym of every input
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: tall
Output: short
Input: energetic
Output: lethargic
Input: sunny
Output: gloomy
Input: windy
Output: calm


Input: sunny
Output: gloomy
Input: windy
Output: calm
Input: big
Output: small
Input: enthusiastic
Output:
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Similarity ExampleSelector#
The SemanticSimilarityExampleSelector selects examples based on which examples are most similar to the inputs. It does this by finding the examples with the embeddings that have the greatest cosine similarity with the inputs.
from langchain.prompts.example_selector import SemanticSimilarityExampleSelector
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.prompts import FewShotPromptTemplate, PromptTemplate
example_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["input", "output"],
    template="Input: {input}\nOutput: {output}",
)
# These are a lot of examples of a pretend task of creating antonyms.
examples = [
    {"input": "happy", "output": "sad"},
    {"input": "tall", "output": "short"},
    {"input": "energetic", "output": "lethargic"},
    {"input": "sunny", "output": "gloomy"},
    {"input": "windy", "output": "calm"},
]
example_selector = SemanticSimilarityExampleSelector.from_examples(
    # This is the list of examples available to select from.
    examples,
    # This is the embedding class used to produce embeddings which are used to measure semantic similarity.
    OpenAIEmbeddings(),
    # This is the VectorStore class that is used to store the embeddings and do a similarity search over.
    Chroma,
    # This is the number of examples to produce.
    k=1
)
similar_prompt = FewShotPromptTemplate(
    # We provide an ExampleSelector instead of examples.
    example_selector=example_selector,
    example_prompt=example_prompt,
    prefix="Give the antonym of every input",


example_prompt=example_prompt,
    prefix="Give the antonym of every input",
    suffix="Input: {adjective}\nOutput:",
    input_variables=["adjective"],
)
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
# Input is a feeling, so should select the happy/sad example
print(similar_prompt.format(adjective="worried"))
Give the antonym of every input
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: worried
Output:
# Input is a measurement, so should select the tall/short example
print(similar_prompt.format(adjective="fat"))
Give the antonym of every input
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: fat
Output:
# You can add new examples to the SemanticSimilarityExampleSelector as well
similar_prompt.example_selector.add_example({"input": "enthusiastic", "output": "apathetic"})
print(similar_prompt.format(adjective="joyful"))
Give the antonym of every input
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: joyful
Output:
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Implement custom example selector
Use custom example selector
How to create a custom example selector#
In this tutorial, we’ll create a custom example selector that selects every alternate example from a given list of examples.
An ExampleSelector must implement two methods:
An add_example method which takes in an example and adds it into the ExampleSelector
A select_examples method which takes in input variables (which are meant to be user input) and returns a list of examples to use in the few shot prompt.
Let’s implement a custom ExampleSelector that just selects two examples at random.
Note
Take a look at the current set of example selector implementations supported in LangChain here.
Implement custom example selector#
from langchain.prompts.example_selector.base import BaseExampleSelector
from typing import Dict, List
import numpy as np
class CustomExampleSelector(BaseExampleSelector):

    def __init__(self, examples: List[Dict[str, str]]):
        self.examples = examples

    def add_example(self, example: Dict[str, str]) -> None:
        """Add new example to store for a key."""
        self.examples.append(example)
    def select_examples(self, input_variables: Dict[str, str]) -> List[dict]:
        """Select which examples to use based on the inputs."""
        return np.random.choice(self.examples, size=2, replace=False)
Use custom example selector#
examples = [
    {"foo": "1"},
    {"foo": "2"},
    {"foo": "3"}
]
# Initialize example selector.
example_selector = CustomExampleSelector(examples)
# Select examples
example_selector.select_examples({"foo": "foo"})
# -> array([{'foo': '2'}, {'foo': '3'}], dtype=object)


# Add new example to the set of examples
example_selector.add_example({"foo": "4"})
example_selector.examples
# -> [{'foo': '1'}, {'foo': '2'}, {'foo': '3'}, {'foo': '4'}]
# Select examples
example_selector.select_examples({"foo": "foo"})
# -> array([{'foo': '1'}, {'foo': '4'}], dtype=object)
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Maximal Marginal Relevance ExampleSelector
Maximal Marginal Relevance ExampleSelector#
The MaxMarginalRelevanceExampleSelector selects examples based on a combination of which examples are most similar to the inputs, while also optimizing for diversity. It does this by finding the examples with the embeddings that have the greatest cosine similarity with the inputs, and then iteratively adding them while penalizing them for closeness to already selected examples.
from langchain.prompts.example_selector import MaxMarginalRelevanceExampleSelector
from langchain.vectorstores import FAISS
from langchain.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.prompts import FewShotPromptTemplate, PromptTemplate
example_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["input", "output"],
    template="Input: {input}\nOutput: {output}",
)
# These are a lot of examples of a pretend task of creating antonyms.
examples = [
    {"input": "happy", "output": "sad"},
    {"input": "tall", "output": "short"},
    {"input": "energetic", "output": "lethargic"},
    {"input": "sunny", "output": "gloomy"},
    {"input": "windy", "output": "calm"},
]
example_selector = MaxMarginalRelevanceExampleSelector.from_examples(
    # This is the list of examples available to select from.
    examples,
    # This is the embedding class used to produce embeddings which are used to measure semantic similarity.
    OpenAIEmbeddings(),
    # This is the VectorStore class that is used to store the embeddings and do a similarity search over.
    FAISS,
    # This is the number of examples to produce.
    k=2
)
mmr_prompt = FewShotPromptTemplate(


k=2
)
mmr_prompt = FewShotPromptTemplate(
    # We provide an ExampleSelector instead of examples.
    example_selector=example_selector,
    example_prompt=example_prompt,
    prefix="Give the antonym of every input",
    suffix="Input: {adjective}\nOutput:",
    input_variables=["adjective"],
)
# Input is a feeling, so should select the happy/sad example as the first one
print(mmr_prompt.format(adjective="worried"))
Give the antonym of every input
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: windy
Output: calm
Input: worried
Output:
# Let's compare this to what we would just get if we went solely off of similarity
similar_prompt = FewShotPromptTemplate(
    # We provide an ExampleSelector instead of examples.
    example_selector=example_selector,
    example_prompt=example_prompt,
    prefix="Give the antonym of every input",
    suffix="Input: {adjective}\nOutput:",
    input_variables=["adjective"],
)
similar_prompt.example_selector.k = 2
print(similar_prompt.format(adjective="worried"))
Give the antonym of every input
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: windy
Output: calm
Input: worried
Output:
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Output Parsers#
Language models output text. But many times you may want to get more structured information than just text back. This is where output parsers come in.
Output parsers are classes that help structure language model responses. There are two main methods an output parser must implement:
get_format_instructions() -> str: A method which returns a string containing instructions for how the output of a language model should be formatted.
parse(str) -> Any: A method which takes in a string (assumed to be the response from a language model) and parses it into some structure.
And then one optional one:
parse_with_prompt(str, PromptValue) -> Any: A method which takes in a string (assumed to be the response from a language model) and a prompt (assumed to the prompt that generated such a response) and parses it into some structure. The prompt is largely provided in the event the OutputParser wants to retry or fix the output in some way, and needs information from the prompt to do so.
Below we go over the main type of output parser, the PydanticOutputParser. See the examples folder for other options.
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate, ChatPromptTemplate, HumanMessagePromptTemplate
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
from langchain.output_parsers import PydanticOutputParser
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, validator
from typing import List
model_name = 'text-davinci-003'
temperature = 0.0
model = OpenAI(model_name=model_name, temperature=temperature)
# Define your desired data structure.
class Joke(BaseModel):
    setup: str = Field(description="question to set up a joke")
    punchline: str = Field(description="answer to resolve the joke")


punchline: str = Field(description="answer to resolve the joke")

    # You can add custom validation logic easily with Pydantic.
    @validator('setup')
    def question_ends_with_question_mark(cls, field):
        if field[-1] != '?':
            raise ValueError("Badly formed question!")
        return field
# Set up a parser + inject instructions into the prompt template.
parser = PydanticOutputParser(pydantic_object=Joke)
prompt = PromptTemplate(
    template="Answer the user query.\n{format_instructions}\n{query}\n",
    input_variables=["query"],
    partial_variables={"format_instructions": parser.get_format_instructions()}
)
# And a query intented to prompt a language model to populate the data structure.
joke_query = "Tell me a joke."
_input = prompt.format_prompt(query=joke_query)
output = model(_input.to_string())
parser.parse(output)
Joke(setup='Why did the chicken cross the road?', punchline='To get to the other side!')
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RetryOutputParser#
While in some cases it is possible to fix any parsing mistakes by only looking at the output, in other cases it can’t. An example of this is when the output is not just in the incorrect format, but is partially complete. Consider the below example.
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate, ChatPromptTemplate, HumanMessagePromptTemplate
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
from langchain.output_parsers import PydanticOutputParser, OutputFixingParser, RetryOutputParser
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, validator
from typing import List
template = """Based on the user question, provide an Action and Action Input for what step should be taken.
{format_instructions}
Question: {query}
Response:"""
class Action(BaseModel):
    action: str = Field(description="action to take")
    action_input: str = Field(description="input to the action")

parser = PydanticOutputParser(pydantic_object=Action)
prompt = PromptTemplate(
    template="Answer the user query.\n{format_instructions}\n{query}\n",
    input_variables=["query"],
    partial_variables={"format_instructions": parser.get_format_instructions()}
)
prompt_value = prompt.format_prompt(query="who is leo di caprios gf?")
bad_response = '{"action": "search"}'
If we try to parse this response as is, we will get an error
parser.parse(bad_response)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValidationError                           Traceback (most recent call last)
File ~/workplace/langchain/langchain/output_parsers/pydantic.py:24, in PydanticOutputParser.parse(self, text)
     23     json_object = json.loads(json_str)


23     json_object = json.loads(json_str)
---> 24     return self.pydantic_object.parse_obj(json_object)
     26 except (json.JSONDecodeError, ValidationError) as e:
File ~/.pyenv/versions/3.9.1/envs/langchain/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pydantic/main.py:527, in pydantic.main.BaseModel.parse_obj()
File ~/.pyenv/versions/3.9.1/envs/langchain/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pydantic/main.py:342, in pydantic.main.BaseModel.__init__()
ValidationError: 1 validation error for Action
action_input
  field required (type=value_error.missing)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
OutputParserException                     Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[6], line 1
----> 1 parser.parse(bad_response)
File ~/workplace/langchain/langchain/output_parsers/pydantic.py:29, in PydanticOutputParser.parse(self, text)
     27 name = self.pydantic_object.__name__
     28 msg = f"Failed to parse {name} from completion {text}. Got: {e}"
---> 29 raise OutputParserException(msg)
OutputParserException: Failed to parse Action from completion {"action": "search"}. Got: 1 validation error for Action
action_input
  field required (type=value_error.missing)
If we try to use the OutputFixingParser to fix this error, it will be confused - namely, it doesn’t know what to actually put for action input.
fix_parser = OutputFixingParser.from_llm(parser=parser, llm=ChatOpenAI())
fix_parser.parse(bad_response)
Action(action='search', action_input='')


fix_parser.parse(bad_response)
Action(action='search', action_input='')
Instead, we can use the RetryOutputParser, which passes in the prompt (as well as the original output) to try again to get a better response.
from langchain.output_parsers import RetryWithErrorOutputParser
retry_parser = RetryWithErrorOutputParser.from_llm(parser=parser, llm=OpenAI(temperature=0))
retry_parser.parse_with_prompt(bad_response, prompt_value)
Action(action='search', action_input='who is leo di caprios gf?')
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PydanticOutputParser
PydanticOutputParser#
This output parser allows users to specify an arbitrary JSON schema and query LLMs for JSON outputs that conform to that schema.
Keep in mind that large language models are leaky abstractions! You’ll have to use an LLM with sufficient capacity to generate well-formed JSON. In the OpenAI family, DaVinci can do reliably but Curie’s ability already drops off dramatically.
Use Pydantic to declare your data model. Pydantic’s BaseModel like a Python dataclass, but with actual type checking + coercion.
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate, ChatPromptTemplate, HumanMessagePromptTemplate
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
from langchain.output_parsers import PydanticOutputParser
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, validator
from typing import List
model_name = 'text-davinci-003'
temperature = 0.0
model = OpenAI(model_name=model_name, temperature=temperature)
# Define your desired data structure.
class Joke(BaseModel):
    setup: str = Field(description="question to set up a joke")
    punchline: str = Field(description="answer to resolve the joke")

    # You can add custom validation logic easily with Pydantic.
    @validator('setup')
    def question_ends_with_question_mark(cls, field):
        if field[-1] != '?':
            raise ValueError("Badly formed question!")
        return field
# And a query intented to prompt a language model to populate the data structure.
joke_query = "Tell me a joke."
# Set up a parser + inject instructions into the prompt template.
parser = PydanticOutputParser(pydantic_object=Joke)
prompt = PromptTemplate(


prompt = PromptTemplate(
    template="Answer the user query.\n{format_instructions}\n{query}\n",
    input_variables=["query"],
    partial_variables={"format_instructions": parser.get_format_instructions()}
)
_input = prompt.format_prompt(query=joke_query)
output = model(_input.to_string())
parser.parse(output)
Joke(setup='Why did the chicken cross the road?', punchline='To get to the other side!')
# Here's another example, but with a compound typed field.
class Actor(BaseModel):
    name: str = Field(description="name of an actor")
    film_names: List[str] = Field(description="list of names of films they starred in")

actor_query = "Generate the filmography for a random actor."
parser = PydanticOutputParser(pydantic_object=Actor)
prompt = PromptTemplate(
    template="Answer the user query.\n{format_instructions}\n{query}\n",
    input_variables=["query"],
    partial_variables={"format_instructions": parser.get_format_instructions()}
)
_input = prompt.format_prompt(query=actor_query)
output = model(_input.to_string())
parser.parse(output)
Actor(name='Tom Hanks', film_names=['Forrest Gump', 'Saving Private Ryan', 'The Green Mile', 'Cast Away', 'Toy Story'])
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OutputFixingParser#
This output parser wraps another output parser and tries to fix any mmistakes
The Pydantic guardrail simply tries to parse the LLM response. If it does not parse correctly, then it errors.
But we can do other things besides throw errors. Specifically, we can pass the misformatted output, along with the formatted instructions, to the model and ask it to fix it.
For this example, we’ll use the above OutputParser. Here’s what happens if we pass it a result that does not comply with the schema:
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate, ChatPromptTemplate, HumanMessagePromptTemplate
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
from langchain.output_parsers import PydanticOutputParser
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, validator
from typing import List
class Actor(BaseModel):
    name: str = Field(description="name of an actor")
    film_names: List[str] = Field(description="list of names of films they starred in")

actor_query = "Generate the filmography for a random actor."
parser = PydanticOutputParser(pydantic_object=Actor)
misformatted = "{'name': 'Tom Hanks', 'film_names': ['Forrest Gump']}"
parser.parse(misformatted)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
JSONDecodeError                           Traceback (most recent call last)
File ~/workplace/langchain/langchain/output_parsers/pydantic.py:23, in PydanticOutputParser.parse(self, text)
     22     json_str = match.group()
---> 23 json_object = json.loads(json_str)
     24 return self.pydantic_object.parse_obj(json_object)


24 return self.pydantic_object.parse_obj(json_object)
File ~/.pyenv/versions/3.9.1/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py:346, in loads(s, cls, object_hook, parse_float, parse_int, parse_constant, object_pairs_hook, **kw)
    343 if (cls is None and object_hook is None and
    344         parse_int is None and parse_float is None and
    345         parse_constant is None and object_pairs_hook is None and not kw):
--> 346     return _default_decoder.decode(s)
    347 if cls is None:
File ~/.pyenv/versions/3.9.1/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py:337, in JSONDecoder.decode(self, s, _w)
    333 """Return the Python representation of ``s`` (a ``str`` instance
    334 containing a JSON document).
    335
    336 """
--> 337 obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
    338 end = _w(s, end).end()
File ~/.pyenv/versions/3.9.1/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py:353, in JSONDecoder.raw_decode(self, s, idx)
    352 try:
--> 353     obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
    354 except StopIteration as err:
JSONDecodeError: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 1 column 2 (char 1)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
OutputParserException                     Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[6], line 1
----> 1 parser.parse(misformatted)


Cell In[6], line 1
----> 1 parser.parse(misformatted)
File ~/workplace/langchain/langchain/output_parsers/pydantic.py:29, in PydanticOutputParser.parse(self, text)
     27 name = self.pydantic_object.__name__
     28 msg = f"Failed to parse {name} from completion {text}. Got: {e}"
---> 29 raise OutputParserException(msg)
OutputParserException: Failed to parse Actor from completion {'name': 'Tom Hanks', 'film_names': ['Forrest Gump']}. Got: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 1 column 2 (char 1)
Now we can construct and use a OutputFixingParser. This output parser takes as an argument another output parser but also an LLM with which to try to correct any formatting mistakes.
from langchain.output_parsers import OutputFixingParser
new_parser = OutputFixingParser.from_llm(parser=parser, llm=ChatOpenAI())
new_parser.parse(misformatted)
Actor(name='Tom Hanks', film_names=['Forrest Gump'])
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Structured Output Parser#
While the Pydantic/JSON parser is more powerful, we initially experimented data structures having text fields only.
from langchain.output_parsers import StructuredOutputParser, ResponseSchema
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate, ChatPromptTemplate, HumanMessagePromptTemplate
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
Here we define the response schema we want to receive.
response_schemas = [
    ResponseSchema(name="answer", description="answer to the user's question"),
    ResponseSchema(name="source", description="source used to answer the user's question, should be a website.")
]
output_parser = StructuredOutputParser.from_response_schemas(response_schemas)
We now get a string that contains instructions for how the response should be formatted, and we then insert that into our prompt.
format_instructions = output_parser.get_format_instructions()
prompt = PromptTemplate(
    template="answer the users question as best as possible.\n{format_instructions}\n{question}",
    input_variables=["question"],
    partial_variables={"format_instructions": format_instructions}
)
We can now use this to format a prompt to send to the language model, and then parse the returned result.
model = OpenAI(temperature=0)
_input = prompt.format_prompt(question="what's the capital of france")
output = model(_input.to_string())
output_parser.parse(output)
{'answer': 'Paris', 'source': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris'}
And here’s an example of using this in a chat model
chat_model = ChatOpenAI(temperature=0)
prompt = ChatPromptTemplate(
    messages=[
        HumanMessagePromptTemplate.from_template("answer the users question as best as possible.\n{format_instructions}\n{question}")


],
    input_variables=["question"],
    partial_variables={"format_instructions": format_instructions}
)
_input = prompt.format_prompt(question="what's the capital of france")
output = chat_model(_input.to_messages())
output_parser.parse(output.content)
{'answer': 'Paris', 'source': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris'}
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CommaSeparatedListOutputParser
CommaSeparatedListOutputParser#
Here’s another parser strictly less powerful than Pydantic/JSON parsing.
from langchain.output_parsers import CommaSeparatedListOutputParser
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate, ChatPromptTemplate, HumanMessagePromptTemplate
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
output_parser = CommaSeparatedListOutputParser()
format_instructions = output_parser.get_format_instructions()
prompt = PromptTemplate(
    template="List five {subject}.\n{format_instructions}",
    input_variables=["subject"],
    partial_variables={"format_instructions": format_instructions}
)
model = OpenAI(temperature=0)
_input = prompt.format(subject="ice cream flavors")
output = model(_input)
output_parser.parse(output)
['Vanilla',
 'Chocolate',
 'Strawberry',
 'Mint Chocolate Chip',
 'Cookies and Cream']
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Document Loaders#
Note
Conceptual Guide
Combining language models with your own text data is a powerful way to differentiate them.
The first step in doing this is to load the data into “documents” - a fancy way of say some pieces of text.
This module is aimed at making this easy.
A primary driver of a lot of this is the Unstructured python package.
This package is a great way to transform all types of files - text, powerpoint, images, html, pdf, etc - into text data.
For detailed instructions on how to get set up with Unstructured, see installation guidelines here.
The following document loaders are provided:
CoNLL-U
Airbyte JSON
Apify Dataset
AZLyrics
Azure Blob Storage Container
Azure Blob Storage File
BigQuery Loader
Bilibili
Blackboard
Blockchain Document Loader
ChatGPT Data Loader
College Confidential
Confluence
Copy Paste
CSV Loader
DataFrame Loader
Diffbot
Directory Loader
Discord
DuckDB Loader
Email
EPubs
EverNote
Facebook Chat
Figma
GCS Directory
GCS File Storage
Git
GitBook
Google Drive
Gutenberg
Hacker News
HTML
HuggingFace dataset loader
iFixit
Images
Image captions
IMSDb
Markdown
Notebook
Notion
Notion DB Loader
Obsidian
PDF
PowerPoint
ReadTheDocs Documentation
Roam
s3 Directory
s3 File
Sitemap Loader
Slack (Local Exported Zipfile)
Subtitle Files
Telegram
Twitter
Unstructured File Loader
URL
Selenium URL Loader
Playwright URL Loader
Web Base
WhatsApp Chat
Word Documents
YouTube
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One Line Index Creation
Walkthrough
Getting Started#
LangChain primary focuses on constructing indexes with the goal of using them as a Retriever. In order to best understand what this means, it’s worth highlighting what the base Retriever interface is. The BaseRetriever class in LangChain is as follows:
from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
from typing import List
from langchain.schema import Document
class BaseRetriever(ABC):
    @abstractmethod
    def get_relevant_documents(self, query: str) -> List[Document]:
        """Get texts relevant for a query.
        Args:
            query: string to find relevant texts for
        Returns:
            List of relevant documents
        """
It’s that simple! The get_relevant_documents method can be implemented however you see fit.
Of course, we also help construct what we think useful Retrievers are. The main type of Retriever that we focus on is a Vectorstore retriever. We will focus on that for the rest of this guide.
In order to understand what a vectorstore retriever is, it’s important to understand what a Vectorstore is. So let’s look at that.
By default, LangChain uses Chroma as the vectorstore to index and search embeddings. To walk through this tutorial, we’ll first need to install chromadb.
pip install chromadb
This example showcases question answering over documents.
We have chosen this as the example for getting started because it nicely combines a lot of different elements (Text splitters, embeddings, vectorstores) and then also shows how to use them in a chain.
Question answering over documents consists of four steps:
Create an index
Create a Retriever from that index
Create a question answering chain
Ask questions!


Create a Retriever from that index
Create a question answering chain
Ask questions!
Each of the steps has multiple sub steps and potential configurations. In this notebook we will primarily focus on (1). We will start by showing the one-liner for doing so, but then break down what is actually going on.
First, let’s import some common classes we’ll use no matter what.
from langchain.chains import RetrievalQA
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
Next in the generic setup, let’s specify the document loader we want to use. You can download the state_of_the_union.txt file here
from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader
loader = TextLoader('../state_of_the_union.txt', encoding='utf8')
One Line Index Creation#
To get started as quickly as possible, we can use the VectorstoreIndexCreator.
from langchain.indexes import VectorstoreIndexCreator
index = VectorstoreIndexCreator().from_loaders([loader])
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
Now that the index is created, we can use it to ask questions of the data! Note that under the hood this is actually doing a few steps as well, which we will cover later in this guide.
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
index.query(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."
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
index.query_with_sources(query)


index.query_with_sources(query)
{'question': 'What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson',
 'answer': " The president said that he nominated Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of the nation's top legal minds, to continue Justice Breyer's legacy of excellence, and that she has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans.\n",
 'sources': '../state_of_the_union.txt'}
What is returned from the VectorstoreIndexCreator is VectorStoreIndexWrapper, which provides these nice query and query_with_sources functionality. If we just wanted to access the vectorstore directly, we can also do that.
index.vectorstore
<langchain.vectorstores.chroma.Chroma at 0x119aa5940>
If we then want to access the VectorstoreRetriever, we can do that with:
index.vectorstore.as_retriever()
VectorStoreRetriever(vectorstore=<langchain.vectorstores.chroma.Chroma object at 0x119aa5940>, search_kwargs={})
Walkthrough#
Okay, so what’s actually going on? How is this index getting created?
A lot of the magic is being hid in this VectorstoreIndexCreator. What is this doing?
There are three main steps going on after the documents are loaded:
Splitting documents into chunks
Creating embeddings for each document
Storing documents and embeddings in a vectorstore
Let’s walk through this in code
documents = loader.load()
Next, we will split the documents into chunks.
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_documents(documents)
We will then select which embeddings we want to use.


We will then select which embeddings we want to use.
from langchain.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
We now create the vectorstore to use as the index.
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
db = Chroma.from_documents(texts, embeddings)
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
So that’s creating the index. Then, we expose this index in a retriever interface.
retriever = db.as_retriever()
Then, as before, we create a chain and use it to answer questions!
qa = RetrievalQA.from_chain_type(llm=OpenAI(), chain_type="stuff", retriever=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 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 said she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from organizations such as the Fraternal Order of Police and former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans."
VectorstoreIndexCreator is just a wrapper around all this logic. It is configurable in the text splitter it uses, the embeddings it uses, and the vectorstore it uses. For example, you can configure it as below:
index_creator = VectorstoreIndexCreator(
    vectorstore_cls=Chroma,
    embedding=OpenAIEmbeddings(),
    text_splitter=CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
)


)
Hopefully this highlights what is going on under the hood of VectorstoreIndexCreator. While we think it’s important to have a simple way to create indexes, we also think it’s important to understand what’s going on under the hood.
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Vectorstores#
Note
Conceptual Guide
Vectorstores are one of the most important components of building indexes.
For an introduction to vectorstores and generic functionality see:
Getting Started
We also have documentation for all the types of vectorstores that are supported.
Please see below for that list.
AnalyticDB
Annoy
AtlasDB
Chroma
Deep Lake
ElasticSearch
FAISS
Milvus
MyScale
OpenSearch
PGVector
Pinecone
Qdrant
Redis
SupabaseVectorStore
Weaviate
Zilliz
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Text Splitters#
Note
Conceptual Guide
When you want to deal with long pieces of text, it is necessary to split up that text into chunks.
As simple as this sounds, there is a lot of potential complexity here. Ideally, you want to keep the semantically related pieces of text together. What “semantically related” means could depend on the type of text.
This notebook showcases several ways to do that.
At a high level, text splitters work as following:
Split the text up into small, semantically meaningful chunks (often sentences).
Start combining these small chunks into a larger chunk until you reach a certain size (as measured by some function).
Once you reach that size, make that chunk its own piece of text and then start creating a new chunk of text with some overlap (to keep context between chunks).
That means there two different axes along which you can customize your text splitter:
How the text is split
How the chunk size is measured
For an introduction to the default text splitter and generic functionality see:
Getting Started
We also have documentation for all the types of text splitters that are supported.
Please see below for that list.
Character Text Splitter
Hugging Face Length Function
Latex Text Splitter
Markdown Text Splitter
NLTK Text Splitter
Python Code Text Splitter
RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
Spacy Text Splitter
tiktoken (OpenAI) Length Function
TiktokenText Splitter
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Retrievers#
Note
Conceptual Guide
The retriever interface is a generic interface that makes it easy to combine documents with
language models. This interface exposes a get_relevant_documents method which takes in a query
(a string) and returns a list of documents.
Please see below for a list of all the retrievers supported.
ChatGPT Plugin Retriever
Contextual Compression Retriever
Stringing compressors and document transformers together
Databerry
ElasticSearch BM25
Metal
Pinecone Hybrid Search
SVM Retriever
TF-IDF Retriever
Time Weighted VectorStore Retriever
VectorStore Retriever
Weaviate Hybrid Search
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Specifying a prefix
s3 Directory#
This covers how to load document objects from an s3 directory object.
from langchain.document_loaders import S3DirectoryLoader
#!pip install boto3
loader = S3DirectoryLoader("testing-hwc")
loader.load()
[Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '/var/folders/y6/8_bzdg295ld6s1_97_12m4lr0000gn/T/tmpaa9xl6ch/fake.docx'}, lookup_index=0)]
Specifying a prefix#
You can also specify a prefix for more finegrained control over what files to load.
loader = S3DirectoryLoader("testing-hwc", prefix="fake")
loader.load()
[Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '/var/folders/y6/8_bzdg295ld6s1_97_12m4lr0000gn/T/tmpujbkzf_l/fake.docx'}, lookup_index=0)]
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Telegram#
This notebook covers how to load data from Telegram into a format that can be ingested into LangChain.
from langchain.document_loaders import TelegramChatLoader
loader = TelegramChatLoader("example_data/telegram.json")
loader.load()
[Document(page_content="Henry on 2020-01-01T00:00:02: It's 2020...\n\nHenry on 2020-01-01T00:00:04: Fireworks!\n\nGrace ðŸ§¤ ðŸ\x8d’ on 2020-01-01T00:00:05: You're a minute late!\n\n", lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'example_data/telegram.json'}, lookup_index=0)]
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Copy Paste#
This notebook covers how to load a document object from something you just want to copy and paste. In this case, you don’t even need to use a DocumentLoader, but rather can just construct the Document directly.
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
text = "..... put the text you copy pasted here......"
doc = Document(page_content=text)
Metadata#
If you want to add metadata about the where you got this piece of text, you easily can with the metadata key.
metadata = {"source": "internet", "date": "Friday"}
doc = Document(page_content=text, metadata=metadata)
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Add video info
YouTube loader from Google Cloud
Prerequisites
🧑 Instructions for ingesting your Google Docs data
YouTube#
How to load documents from YouTube transcripts.
from langchain.document_loaders import YoutubeLoader
# !pip install youtube-transcript-api
loader = YoutubeLoader.from_youtube_url("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsYGlZkevEg", add_video_info=True)
loader.load()
Add video info#
# ! pip install pytube
loader = YoutubeLoader.from_youtube_url("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsYGlZkevEg", add_video_info=True)
loader.load()
YouTube loader from Google Cloud#
Prerequisites#
Create a Google Cloud project or use an existing project
Enable the Youtube Api
Authorize credentials for desktop app
pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib youtube-transcript-api
🧑 Instructions for ingesting your Google Docs data#
By default, the GoogleDriveLoader expects the credentials.json file to be ~/.credentials/credentials.json, but this is configurable using the credentials_file keyword argument. Same thing with token.json. Note that token.json will be created automatically the first time you use the loader.
GoogleApiYoutubeLoader can load from a list of Google Docs document ids or a folder id. You can obtain your folder and document id from the URL:
Note depending on your set up, the service_account_path needs to be set up. See here for more details.
from langchain.document_loaders import GoogleApiClient, GoogleApiYoutubeLoader
# Init the GoogleApiClient
from pathlib import Path
google_api_client = GoogleApiClient(credentials_path=Path("your_path_creds.json"))
# Use a Channel


# Use a Channel
youtube_loader_channel = GoogleApiYoutubeLoader(google_api_client=google_api_client, channel_name="Reducible",captions_language="en")
# Use Youtube Ids
youtube_loader_ids = GoogleApiYoutubeLoader(google_api_client=google_api_client, video_ids=["TrdevFK_am4"], add_video_info=True)
# returns a list of Documents
youtube_loader_channel.load()
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Hacker News#
How to pull page data and comments from Hacker News
from langchain.document_loaders import HNLoader
loader = HNLoader("https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817881")
data = loader.load()
data
[Document(page_content="delta_p_delta_x 18 hours ago  \n             | next [–] \n\nAstrophysical and cosmological simulations are often insightful. They're also very cross-disciplinary; besides the obvious astrophysics, there's networking and sysadmin, parallel computing and algorithm theory (so that the simulation programs are actually fast but still accurate), systems design, and even a bit of graphic design for the visualisations.Some of my favourite simulation projects:- IllustrisTNG: https://www.tng-project.org/- SWIFT: https://swift.dur.ac.uk/- CO5BOLD: https://www.astro.uu.se/~bf/co5bold_main.html (which produced these animations of a red-giant star: https://www.astro.uu.se/~bf/movie/AGBmovie.html)- AbacusSummit: https://abacussummit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/And I can add the simulations in the article, too.\n \nreply", lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817881', 'title': 'What Lights the Universe’s Standard Candles?'}, lookup_index=0),


Document(page_content="andrewflnr 19 hours ago  \n             | prev | next [–] \n\nWhoa. I didn't know the accretion theory of Ia supernovae was dead, much less that it had been since 2011.\n \nreply", lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817881', 'title': 'What Lights the Universe’s Standard Candles?'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='andreareina 18 hours ago  \n             | prev | next [–] \n\nThis seems  to be the paper https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/517/4/5260/6779709\n \nreply', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817881', 'title': 'What Lights the Universe’s Standard Candles?'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content="andreareina 18 hours ago  \n             | prev [–] \n\nWouldn't double detonation show up as variance in the brightness?\n \nreply", lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817881', 'title': 'What Lights the Universe’s Standard Candles?'}, lookup_index=0)]
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Customizing the csv parsing and loading
Specify a column to be used identify the document source
CSV Loader#
Load csv files with a single row per document.
from langchain.document_loaders.csv_loader import CSVLoader
loader = CSVLoader(file_path='./example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv')
data = loader.load()
print(data)


[Document(page_content='Team: Nationals\n"Payroll (millions)": 81.34\n"Wins": 98', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 0}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Reds\n"Payroll (millions)": 82.20\n"Wins": 97', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 1}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Yankees\n"Payroll (millions)": 197.96\n"Wins": 95', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 2}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Giants\n"Payroll (millions)": 117.62\n"Wins": 94', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 3}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Braves\n"Payroll (millions)": 83.31\n"Wins": 94', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 4}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Athletics\n"Payroll (millions)": 55.37\n"Wins": 94', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 5}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Rangers\n"Payroll


lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Rangers\n"Payroll (millions)": 120.51\n"Wins": 93', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 6}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Orioles\n"Payroll (millions)": 81.43\n"Wins": 93', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 7}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Rays\n"Payroll (millions)": 64.17\n"Wins": 90', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 8}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Angels\n"Payroll (millions)": 154.49\n"Wins": 89', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 9}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Tigers\n"Payroll (millions)": 132.30\n"Wins": 88', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 10}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Cardinals\n"Payroll (millions)": 110.30\n"Wins": 88', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 11}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team:


'row': 11}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Dodgers\n"Payroll (millions)": 95.14\n"Wins": 86', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 12}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: White Sox\n"Payroll (millions)": 96.92\n"Wins": 85', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 13}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Brewers\n"Payroll (millions)": 97.65\n"Wins": 83', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 14}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Phillies\n"Payroll (millions)": 174.54\n"Wins": 81', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 15}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Diamondbacks\n"Payroll (millions)": 74.28\n"Wins": 81', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 16}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Pirates\n"Payroll (millions)": 63.43\n"Wins": 79', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 17}, lookup_index=0),


'row': 17}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Padres\n"Payroll (millions)": 55.24\n"Wins": 76', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 18}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Mariners\n"Payroll (millions)": 81.97\n"Wins": 75', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 19}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Mets\n"Payroll (millions)": 93.35\n"Wins": 74', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 20}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Blue Jays\n"Payroll (millions)": 75.48\n"Wins": 73', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 21}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Royals\n"Payroll (millions)": 60.91\n"Wins": 72', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 22}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Marlins\n"Payroll (millions)": 118.07\n"Wins": 69', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 23}, lookup_index=0),


'row': 23}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Red Sox\n"Payroll (millions)": 173.18\n"Wins": 69', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 24}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Indians\n"Payroll (millions)": 78.43\n"Wins": 68', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 25}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Twins\n"Payroll (millions)": 94.08\n"Wins": 66', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 26}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Rockies\n"Payroll (millions)": 78.06\n"Wins": 64', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 27}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Cubs\n"Payroll (millions)": 88.19\n"Wins": 61', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 28}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Astros\n"Payroll (millions)": 60.65\n"Wins": 55', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 29}, lookup_index=0)]


Customizing the csv parsing and loading#
See the csv module documentation for more information of what csv args are supported.
loader = CSVLoader(file_path='./example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', csv_args={
    'delimiter': ',',
    'quotechar': '"',
    'fieldnames': ['MLB Team', 'Payroll in millions', 'Wins']
})
data = loader.load()
print(data)


[Document(page_content='MLB Team: Team\nPayroll in millions: "Payroll (millions)"\nWins: "Wins"', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 0}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Nationals\nPayroll in millions: 81.34\nWins: 98', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 1}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Reds\nPayroll in millions: 82.20\nWins: 97', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 2}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Yankees\nPayroll in millions: 197.96\nWins: 95', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 3}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Giants\nPayroll in millions: 117.62\nWins: 94', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 4}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Braves\nPayroll in millions: 83.31\nWins: 94', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row':


'./example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 5}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Athletics\nPayroll in millions: 55.37\nWins: 94', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 6}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Rangers\nPayroll in millions: 120.51\nWins: 93', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 7}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Orioles\nPayroll in millions: 81.43\nWins: 93', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 8}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Rays\nPayroll in millions: 64.17\nWins: 90', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 9}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Angels\nPayroll in millions: 154.49\nWins: 89', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 10}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Tigers\nPayroll in millions: 132.30\nWins: 88', lookup_str='',


in millions: 132.30\nWins: 88', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 11}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Cardinals\nPayroll in millions: 110.30\nWins: 88', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 12}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Dodgers\nPayroll in millions: 95.14\nWins: 86', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 13}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: White Sox\nPayroll in millions: 96.92\nWins: 85', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 14}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Brewers\nPayroll in millions: 97.65\nWins: 83', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 15}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Phillies\nPayroll in millions: 174.54\nWins: 81', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 16}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team:


16}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Diamondbacks\nPayroll in millions: 74.28\nWins: 81', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 17}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Pirates\nPayroll in millions: 63.43\nWins: 79', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 18}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Padres\nPayroll in millions: 55.24\nWins: 76', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 19}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Mariners\nPayroll in millions: 81.97\nWins: 75', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 20}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Mets\nPayroll in millions: 93.35\nWins: 74', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 21}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Blue Jays\nPayroll in millions: 75.48\nWins: 73', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv',


metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 22}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Royals\nPayroll in millions: 60.91\nWins: 72', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 23}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Marlins\nPayroll in millions: 118.07\nWins: 69', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 24}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Red Sox\nPayroll in millions: 173.18\nWins: 69', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 25}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Indians\nPayroll in millions: 78.43\nWins: 68', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 26}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Twins\nPayroll in millions: 94.08\nWins: 66', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 27}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Rockies\nPayroll in millions: 78.06\nWins: 64',


in millions: 78.06\nWins: 64', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 28}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Cubs\nPayroll in millions: 88.19\nWins: 61', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 29}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='MLB Team: Astros\nPayroll in millions: 60.65\nWins: 55', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': './example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', 'row': 30}, lookup_index=0)]


Specify a column to be used identify the document source#
Use the source_column argument to specify a column to be set as the source for the document created from each row. Otherwise file_path will be used as the source for all documents created from the csv file.
This is useful when using documents loaded from CSV files for chains that answer questions using sources.
loader = CSVLoader(file_path='./example_data/mlb_teams_2012.csv', source_column="Team")
data = loader.load()
print(data)


[Document(page_content='Team: Nationals\n"Payroll (millions)": 81.34\n"Wins": 98', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Nationals', 'row': 0}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Reds\n"Payroll (millions)": 82.20\n"Wins": 97', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Reds', 'row': 1}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Yankees\n"Payroll (millions)": 197.96\n"Wins": 95', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Yankees', 'row': 2}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Giants\n"Payroll (millions)": 117.62\n"Wins": 94', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Giants', 'row': 3}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Braves\n"Payroll (millions)": 83.31\n"Wins": 94', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Braves', 'row': 4}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Athletics\n"Payroll (millions)": 55.37\n"Wins": 94', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Athletics', 'row': 5}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Rangers\n"Payroll (millions)": 120.51\n"Wins": 93', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Rangers', 'row': 6}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team:


'row': 6}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Orioles\n"Payroll (millions)": 81.43\n"Wins": 93', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Orioles', 'row': 7}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Rays\n"Payroll (millions)": 64.17\n"Wins": 90', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Rays', 'row': 8}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Angels\n"Payroll (millions)": 154.49\n"Wins": 89', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Angels', 'row': 9}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Tigers\n"Payroll (millions)": 132.30\n"Wins": 88', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Tigers', 'row': 10}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Cardinals\n"Payroll (millions)": 110.30\n"Wins": 88', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Cardinals', 'row': 11}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Dodgers\n"Payroll (millions)": 95.14\n"Wins": 86', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Dodgers', 'row': 12}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: White Sox\n"Payroll (millions)": 96.92\n"Wins": 85', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'White Sox', 'row':


lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'White Sox', 'row': 13}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Brewers\n"Payroll (millions)": 97.65\n"Wins": 83', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Brewers', 'row': 14}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Phillies\n"Payroll (millions)": 174.54\n"Wins": 81', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Phillies', 'row': 15}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Diamondbacks\n"Payroll (millions)": 74.28\n"Wins": 81', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Diamondbacks', 'row': 16}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Pirates\n"Payroll (millions)": 63.43\n"Wins": 79', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Pirates', 'row': 17}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Padres\n"Payroll (millions)": 55.24\n"Wins": 76', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Padres', 'row': 18}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Mariners\n"Payroll (millions)": 81.97\n"Wins": 75', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Mariners', 'row': 19}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Mets\n"Payroll (millions)": 93.35\n"Wins": 74', lookup_str='',


(millions)": 93.35\n"Wins": 74', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Mets', 'row': 20}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Blue Jays\n"Payroll (millions)": 75.48\n"Wins": 73', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Blue Jays', 'row': 21}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Royals\n"Payroll (millions)": 60.91\n"Wins": 72', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Royals', 'row': 22}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Marlins\n"Payroll (millions)": 118.07\n"Wins": 69', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Marlins', 'row': 23}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Red Sox\n"Payroll (millions)": 173.18\n"Wins": 69', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Red Sox', 'row': 24}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Indians\n"Payroll (millions)": 78.43\n"Wins": 68', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Indians', 'row': 25}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Twins\n"Payroll (millions)": 94.08\n"Wins": 66', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Twins', 'row': 26}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Rockies\n"Payroll


lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Rockies\n"Payroll (millions)": 78.06\n"Wins": 64', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Rockies', 'row': 27}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Cubs\n"Payroll (millions)": 88.19\n"Wins": 61', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Cubs', 'row': 28}, lookup_index=0), Document(page_content='Team: Astros\n"Payroll (millions)": 60.65\n"Wins": 55', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'Astros', 'row': 29}, lookup_index=0)]


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Customizing the csv parsing and loading
Specify a column to be used identify the document source
By Harrison Chase

      © Copyright 2023, Harrison Chase.

  Last updated on Apr 25, 2023.


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Using PyPDF
Using Unstructured
Retain Elements
Fetching remote PDFs using Unstructured
Using PDFMiner
Using PDFMiner to generate HTML text
Using PyMuPDF
PDF#
This covers how to load pdfs into a document format that we can use downstream.
Using PyPDF#
Load PDF using pypdf into array of documents, where each document contains the page content and metadata with page number.
from langchain.document_loaders import PyPDFLoader
loader = PyPDFLoader("example_data/layout-parser-paper.pdf")
pages = loader.load_and_split()
pages[0]


Document(page_content='LayoutParser : A Uni\x0ced Toolkit for Deep\nLearning Based Document Image Analysis\nZejiang Shen1( \x00), Ruochen Zhang2, Melissa Dell3, Benjamin Charles Germain\nLee4, Jacob Carlson3, and Weining Li5\n1Allen Institute for AI\nshannons@allenai.org\n2Brown University\nruochen zhang@brown.edu\n3Harvard University\nfmelissadell,jacob carlson g@fas.harvard.edu\n4University of Washington\nbcgl@cs.washington.edu\n5University of Waterloo\nw422li@uwaterloo.ca\nAbstract. Recent advances in document image analysis (DIA) have been\nprimarily driven by the application of neural networks. Ideally, research\noutcomes could be easily deployed in production and extended for further\ninvestigation. However, various factors like loosely organized codebases\nand sophisticated model con\x0cgurations complicate the easy reuse of im-\nportant innovations by a wide audience. Though there have been on-going\ne\x0borts to improve reusability and simplify deep learning (DL) model\ndevelopment in disciplines like natural language processing and computer\nvision, none of them are optimized for


processing and computer\nvision, none of them are optimized for challenges in the domain of DIA.\nThis represents a major gap in the existing toolkit, as DIA is central to\nacademic research across a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences\nand humanities. This paper introduces LayoutParser , an open-source\nlibrary for streamlining the usage of DL in DIA research and applica-\ntions. The core LayoutParser library comes with a set of simple and\nintuitive interfaces for applying and customizing DL models for layout de-\ntection, character recognition, and many other document processing tasks.\nTo promote extensibility, LayoutParser also incorporates a community\nplatform for sharing both pre-trained models and full document digiti-\nzation pipelines. We demonstrate that LayoutParser is helpful for both\nlightweight and large-scale digitization pipelines in real-word use cases.\nThe library is publicly available at https://layout-parser.github.io .\nKeywords: Document Image Analysis ·Deep Learning ·Layout Analysis\n·Character Recognition ·Open Source library ·Toolkit.\n1 Introduction\nDeep Learning(DL)-based approaches are the state-of-the-art for


Learning(DL)-based approaches are the state-of-the-art for a wide range of\ndocument image analysis (DIA) tasks including document image classi\x0ccation [ 11,arXiv:2103.15348v2  [cs.CV]  21 Jun 2021', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'example_data/layout-parser-paper.pdf', 'page': '0'}, lookup_index=0)


An advantage of this approach is that documents can be retrieved with page numbers.
from langchain.vectorstores import FAISS
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
faiss_index = FAISS.from_documents(pages, OpenAIEmbeddings())
docs = faiss_index.similarity_search("How will the community be engaged?", k=2)
for doc in docs:
    print(str(doc.metadata["page"]) + ":", doc.page_content)
9: 10 Z. Shen et al.
Fig. 4: Illustration of (a) the original historical Japanese document with layout
detection results and (b) a recreated version of the document image that achieves
much better character recognition recall. The reorganization algorithm rearranges
the tokens based on the their detected bounding boxes given a maximum allowed
height.
4LayoutParser Community Platform
Another focus of LayoutParser is promoting the reusability of layout detection
models and full digitization pipelines. Similar to many existing deep learning
libraries, LayoutParser comes with a community model hub for distributing
layout models. End-users can upload their self-trained models to the model hub,
and these models can be loaded into a similar interface as the currently available
LayoutParser pre-trained models. For example, the model trained on the News
Navigator dataset [17] has been incorporated in the model hub.
Beyond DL models, LayoutParser also promotes the sharing of entire doc-
ument digitization pipelines. For example, sometimes the pipeline requires the
combination of multiple DL models to achieve better accuracy. Currently, pipelines
are mainly described in academic papers and implementations are often not pub-
licly available. To this end, the LayoutParser community platform also enables
the sharing of layout pipelines to promote the discussion and reuse of techniques.
For each shared pipeline, it has a dedicated project page, with links to the source


For each shared pipeline, it has a dedicated project page, with links to the source
code, documentation, and an outline of the approaches. A discussion panel is
provided for exchanging ideas. Combined with the core LayoutParser library,
users can easily build reusable components based on the shared pipelines and
apply them to solve their unique problems.
5 Use Cases
The core objective of LayoutParser is to make it easier to create both large-scale
and light-weight document digitization pipelines. Large-scale document processing
3: 4 Z. Shen et al.
Efficient Data AnnotationC u s t o m i z e d  M o d e l  T r a i n i n gModel Cust omizationDI A Model HubDI A Pipeline SharingCommunity PlatformLa y out Detection ModelsDocument Images
T h e  C o r e  L a y o u t P a r s e r  L i b r a r yOCR ModuleSt or age & VisualizationLa y out Data Structur e
Fig. 1: The overall architecture of LayoutParser . For an input document image,
the core LayoutParser library provides a set of o
-the-shelf tools for layout
detection, OCR, visualization, and storage, backed by a carefully designed layout
data structure. LayoutParser also supports high level customization via ecient
layout annotation and model training functions. These improve model accuracy
on the target samples. The community platform enables the easy sharing of DIA
models and whole digitization pipelines to promote reusability and reproducibility.
A collection of detailed documentation, tutorials and exemplar projects make
LayoutParser easy to learn and use.
AllenNLP [ 8] and transformers [ 34] have provided the community with complete
DL-based support for developing and deploying models for general computer
vision and natural language processing problems. LayoutParser , on the other
hand, specializes speci


vision and natural language processing problems. LayoutParser , on the other
hand, specializes speci
cally in DIA tasks. LayoutParser is also equipped with a
community platform inspired by established model hubs such as Torch Hub [23]
andTensorFlow Hub [1]. It enables the sharing of pretrained models as well as
full document processing pipelines that are unique to DIA tasks.
There have been a variety of document data collections to facilitate the
development of DL models. Some examples include PRImA [ 3](magazine layouts),
PubLayNet [ 38](academic paper layouts), Table Bank [ 18](tables in academic
papers), Newspaper Navigator Dataset [ 16,17](newspaper
gure layouts) and
HJDataset [31](historical Japanese document layouts). A spectrum of models
trained on these datasets are currently available in the LayoutParser model zoo
to support di
erent use cases.
3 The Core LayoutParser Library
At the core of LayoutParser is an o
-the-shelf toolkit that streamlines DL-
based document image analysis. Five components support a simple interface
with comprehensive functionalities: 1) The layout detection models enable using
pre-trained or self-trained DL models for layout detection with just four lines
of code. 2) The detected layout information is stored in carefully engineered
Using Unstructured#
from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredPDFLoader
loader = UnstructuredPDFLoader("example_data/layout-parser-paper.pdf")
data = loader.load()
Retain Elements#
Under the hood, Unstructured creates different “elements” for different chunks of text. By default we combine those together, but you can easily keep that separation by specifying mode="elements".
loader = UnstructuredPDFLoader("example_data/layout-parser-paper.pdf", mode="elements")
data = loader.load()
data[0]


Document(page_content='LayoutParser: A Uniﬁed Toolkit for Deep\nLearning Based Document Image Analysis\nZejiang Shen1 (�), Ruochen Zhang2, Melissa Dell3, Benjamin Charles Germain\nLee4, Jacob Carlson3, and Weining Li5\n1 Allen Institute for AI\nshannons@allenai.org\n2 Brown University\nruochen zhang@brown.edu\n3 Harvard University\n{melissadell,jacob carlson}@fas.harvard.edu\n4 University of Washington\nbcgl@cs.washington.edu\n5 University of Waterloo\nw422li@uwaterloo.ca\nAbstract. Recent advances in document image analysis (DIA) have been\nprimarily driven by the application of neural networks. Ideally, research\noutcomes could be easily deployed in production and extended for further\ninvestigation. However, various factors like loosely organized codebases\nand sophisticated model conﬁgurations complicate the easy reuse of im-\nportant innovations by a wide audience. Though there have been on-going\neﬀorts to improve reusability and simplify deep learning (DL) model\ndevelopment in disciplines like natural language processing and computer\nvision, none of them are optimized for


processing and computer\nvision, none of them are optimized for challenges in the domain of DIA.\nThis represents a major gap in the existing toolkit, as DIA is central to\nacademic research across a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences\nand humanities. This paper introduces LayoutParser, an open-source\nlibrary for streamlining the usage of DL in DIA research and applica-\ntions. The core LayoutParser library comes with a set of simple and\nintuitive interfaces for applying and customizing DL models for layout de-\ntection, character recognition, and many other document processing tasks.\nTo promote extensibility, LayoutParser also incorporates a community\nplatform for sharing both pre-trained models and full document digiti-\nzation pipelines. We demonstrate that LayoutParser is helpful for both\nlightweight and large-scale digitization pipelines in real-word use cases.\nThe library is publicly available at https://layout-parser.github.io.\nKeywords: Document Image Analysis · Deep Learning · Layout Analysis\n· Character Recognition · Open Source library · Toolkit.\n1\nIntroduction\nDeep Learning(DL)-based approaches are the state-of-the-art