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title: LangGraph RAG Q&A Agent
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🤖 LangGraph RAG Q&A Agent

Next-Generation AI Assistant with Real-Time Analytics & Dynamic Dashboards

A production-ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system built with LangGraph, featuring a sophisticated 4-node workflow (Plan → Retrieve → Answer → Reflect) with comprehensive evaluation metrics and a premium Streamlit UI.

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📋 Table of Contents

• Overview
• Features
• Architecture
• Installation
• Usage
• Project Structure
• Configuration
• Evaluation Metrics
• Bonus Features
• Challenges & Solutions
• Requirements
• Contributing
• License

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🎯 Overview

This project implements a basic AI agent using LangGraph that can answer questions from a knowledge base using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). The system demonstrates advanced AI agent workflows, RAG pipeline design, and LangGraph basics through a multi-node architecture with self-reflection capabilities.

Key Objectives

✅ Test understanding of AI agent workflows
✅ Demonstrate RAG pipeline design
✅ Implement LangGraph basics with 4+ nodes
✅ Build reflection/validation mechanisms
✅ Create production-ready code with comprehensive documentation

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✨ Features

Core Functionality

• 🧠 LangGraph Workflow - 4-node agent architecture (Plan → Retrieve → Answer → Reflect)
• 📚 RAG Pipeline - Retrieval-Augmented Generation with ChromaDB vector store
• 🔄 Self-Reflection - Automatic answer quality evaluation and regeneration
• 🤖 Multi-LLM Support - OpenAI (GPT-3.5/4) and Hugging Face (Flan-T5, Mistral)
• 💾 Vector Database - ChromaDB for efficient semantic search
• 🎨 Premium UI - Beautiful Blue & Black themed Streamlit interface

Advanced Features (Bonus Points)

• 📊 Dynamic Dashboards - Real-time analytics with Plotly visualizations
• 📈 Evaluation Metrics - ROUGE, BERTScore, Context Relevance
• 🎯 Interactive UI - Streamlit-based question answering interface
• 📝 Comprehensive Logging - Step-by-step workflow visibility
• 🔍 Context Tracing - Full transparency of retrieved documents
• 📥 Export Reports - Download evaluation results as JSON

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🏗️ Architecture

LangGraph Workflow

The agent implements a 4-node workflow as required:

graph LR
    A[User Query] --> B[Plan Node]
    B --> C{Needs Retrieval?}
    C -->|Yes| D[Retrieve Node]
    C -->|No| E[Answer Node]
    D --> E
    E --> F[Reflect Node]
    F --> G{Quality OK?}
    G -->|Accept| H[Final Answer]
    G -->|Reject| E
    G -->|Max Iterations| H

Node Descriptions

1. Plan Node 📋

   • Analyzes user query
   • Determines if retrieval is needed
   • Creates execution strategy

2. Retrieve Node 🔍

   • Performs RAG using ChromaDB
   • Retrieves top-k relevant documents
   • Uses semantic search with embeddings

3. Answer Node 💬

   • Generates response using LLM
   • Incorporates retrieved context
   • Handles regeneration with feedback

4. Reflect Node 🔍

   • Evaluates answer quality
   • Checks relevance and completeness
   • Triggers regeneration if needed

Technology Stack

Component	Technology	Purpose
Agent Framework	LangGraph	Workflow orchestration
RAG Framework	LangChain	Retrieval + Generation
Vector Database	ChromaDB	Semantic search
Embeddings	Sentence Transformers	Vector creation
LLM	OpenAI / Hugging Face	Answer generation
UI	Streamlit	Interactive interface
Visualization	Plotly	Dynamic charts
Evaluation	ROUGE, BERTScore	Quality metrics

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🚀 Installation

Prerequisites

• Python 3.9 or higher
• pip package manager
• 4GB+ RAM recommended
• (Optional) NVIDIA GPU for faster inference

Step 1: Clone Repository

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/langgraph-rag-agent.git
cd langgraph-rag-agent

Step 2: Create Virtual Environment

# Windows
python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate

# macOS/Linux
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Step 3: Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 4: Configure Environment

Create a .env file in the project root:

# Copy template
cp .env.example .env

# Edit with your credentials
notepad .env  # Windows
nano .env     # macOS/Linux

Required environment variables:

# LLM Provider (choose one)
LLM_PROVIDER=huggingface
# or
LLM_PROVIDER=openai

# OpenAI Configuration (if using OpenAI)
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here
OPENAI_MODEL=gpt-3.5-turbo

# Hugging Face Configuration (if using Hugging Face)
HUGGINGFACE_API_TOKEN=your_hf_token_here
HUGGINGFACE_MODEL=google/flan-t5-large

# Embedding Model
EMBEDDING_MODEL=sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

# Vector Database
CHROMA_PERSIST_DIR=./chroma_db
CHROMA_COLLECTION_NAME=rag_knowledge_base

# RAG Configuration
CHUNK_SIZE=500
CHUNK_OVERLAP=50
TOP_K_RETRIEVAL=3

# Reflection Settings
USE_LLM_REFLECTION=false
MAX_REFLECTION_ITERATIONS=2

Step 5: Prepare Knowledge Base

Place your text files in the data/ directory:

data/
├── artificial_intelligence.txt
├── machine_learning.txt
├── python_programming.txt
├── cloud_computing.txt
└── databases.txt

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💻 Usage

Option 1: Streamlit UI (Recommended)

cd src
streamlit run ui_app.py

Then open your browser to: http://localhost:8501

Option 2: Command Line

cd src
python main.py

Interactive mode:

python main.py --mode interactive

Sample queries:

python main.py --mode sample

Option 3: Jupyter Notebook

jupyter notebook notebooks/rag_demo.ipynb

Example Usage

from agent_workflow import create_rag_agent
from rag_pipeline import RAGPipeline
from llm_utils import create_llm_handler
from reflection import create_reflection_evaluator

# Initialize components
rag_pipeline = RAGPipeline(
    data_directory="./data",
    collection_name="rag_knowledge_base",
    persist_directory="./chroma_db"
)

rag_pipeline.build_index()

llm_handler = create_llm_handler(
    provider="huggingface",
    model_name="google/flan-t5-large"
)

reflection_evaluator = create_reflection_evaluator(
    llm_handler=llm_handler,
    use_llm_reflection=False
)

agent = create_rag_agent(
    rag_pipeline=rag_pipeline,
    llm_handler=llm_handler,
    reflection_evaluator=reflection_evaluator
)

# Ask a question
result = agent.query("What is machine learning?")
print(result['final_response'])

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📁 Project Structure

langgraph-rag-agent/
│
├── data/                           # Knowledge base (text files)
│   ├── artificial_intelligence.txt
│   ├── machine_learning.txt
│   ├── python_programming.txt
│   ├── cloud_computing.txt
│   └── databases.txt
│
├── src/                            # Source code
│   ├── agent_workflow.py          # LangGraph agent implementation
│   ├── rag_pipeline.py            # RAG pipeline with ChromaDB
│   ├── llm_utils.py               # LLM handlers (OpenAI/HF)
│   ├── reflection.py              # Reflection evaluator
│   ├── evaluation.py              # Metrics (ROUGE, BERTScore)
│   ├── ui_app.py                  # Streamlit UI (Premium)
│   └── main.py                    # CLI interface
│
├── notebooks/                      # Jupyter notebooks
│   └── rag_demo.ipynb             # Interactive demo
│
├── chroma_db/                      # ChromaDB vector store (auto-created)
├── models_cache/                   # HuggingFace model cache
│
├── .env                           # Environment variables
├── .env.example                   # Environment template
├── requirements.txt               # Python dependencies
├── README.md                      # This file
└── LICENSE                        # MIT License

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⚙️ Configuration

LLM Provider Selection

Option 1: Hugging Face (Free, Local)

LLM_PROVIDER=huggingface
HUGGINGFACE_MODEL=google/flan-t5-large

Supported models:

• google/flan-t5-small (300MB, fast)
• google/flan-t5-base (850MB, balanced)
• google/flan-t5-large (3GB, best quality)
• mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 (14GB, advanced)

Option 2: OpenAI (Paid, Cloud)

LLM_PROVIDER=openai
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_api_key
OPENAI_MODEL=gpt-3.5-turbo

Supported models:

• gpt-3.5-turbo (fast, affordable)
• gpt-4 (best quality, expensive)
• gpt-4-turbo (balanced)

Embedding Models

The system uses Sentence Transformers for embeddings:

EMBEDDING_MODEL=sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

Alternatives:

• all-mpnet-base-v2 (higher quality, slower)
• all-MiniLM-L12-v2 (balanced)

RAG Parameters

CHUNK_SIZE=500              # Characters per chunk
CHUNK_OVERLAP=50            # Overlap between chunks
TOP_K_RETRIEVAL=3           # Number of chunks to retrieve

Reflection Settings

USE_LLM_REFLECTION=false    # Use LLM for reflection (slower, better)
MAX_REFLECTION_ITERATIONS=2 # Max regeneration attempts

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📊 Evaluation Metrics

The system includes comprehensive evaluation as a bonus feature:

ROUGE Scores

Measures n-gram overlap between generated and reference answers:

• ROUGE-1: Unigram overlap
• ROUGE-2: Bigram overlap
• ROUGE-L: Longest common subsequence

BERTScore

Measures semantic similarity using contextual embeddings:

• Precision: How much of the generated text is relevant
• Recall: How much of the reference is covered
• F1: Harmonic mean of precision and recall

Context Relevance

Measures how well the answer uses retrieved context:

• Term frequency overlap
• Semantic alignment
• Coverage score

Reflection Scores

Internal quality assessment:

• Relevance: Relevant / Partially Relevant / Irrelevant
• Completeness: Answer completeness check
• Confidence: Model confidence estimation

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🎁 Bonus Features

✅ Streamlit UI

• Interactive question answering
• Real-time analytics dashboards
• Dynamic visualizations (gauges, bar charts, radar charts)
• Premium Blue & Black theme

✅ Evaluation Logging

• ROUGE metrics for quality assessment
• BERTScore for semantic similarity
• Context relevance scoring
• JSON export of results

✅ Project Report

See REPORT.md for:

• How the agent works
• Challenges faced during development
• Design decisions and trade-offs
• Performance analysis

✅ Code Quality

• Type hints throughout codebase
• Comprehensive docstrings
• Error handling and logging
• Modular architecture
• Clean code principles

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🛠️ Challenges & Solutions

Challenge 1: Model Selection

Problem: Balancing answer quality with inference speed.

Solution:

• Implemented multi-LLM support
• Defaulted to flan-t5-large (good balance)
• Allow users to switch models via config

Challenge 2: Reflection Loop

Problem: Preventing infinite regeneration loops.

Solution:

• Implemented MAX_REFLECTION_ITERATIONS
• Added heuristic-based reflection (fast)
• Optional LLM-based reflection (accurate)

Challenge 3: Vector Store Persistence

Problem: Rebuilding index on every restart.

Solution:

• ChromaDB persistent storage
• Check for existing collections
• Optional force rebuild flag

Challenge 4: UI Responsiveness

Problem: Long wait times during inference.

Solution:

• Added loading spinners
• Terminal output visibility
• Progress indicators
• Caching with @st.cache_resource

Challenge 5: Evaluation Metrics

Problem: BERTScore requires reference answers.

Solution:

• Made reference answer optional
• Added heuristic metrics (length, coverage)
• Comprehensive reflection analysis

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📦 Requirements

Core Dependencies

# LangGraph & LangChain
langgraph==0.2.28
langchain==0.2.16
langchain-community==0.2.16
langchain-core==0.2.38

# Vector Database
chromadb==0.5.0
sentence-transformers==2.7.0

# LLM Providers
openai==1.35.0
huggingface-hub==0.23.4
transformers==4.41.2
torch>=2.0.0

# Utilities
python-dotenv==1.0.1
pydantic==2.7.4

# Evaluation
rouge-score==0.1.2
bert-score==0.3.13

# Visualization
plotly==5.18.0
numpy>=1.24.0

# UI
streamlit==1.35.0

# Development
jupyter==1.0.0
ipykernel==6.29.4

System Requirements

• OS: Windows 10+, macOS 10.14+, Linux
• Python: 3.9 or higher
• RAM: 4GB minimum, 8GB recommended
• Storage: 5GB for models cache
• GPU: Optional (NVIDIA CUDA for faster inference)

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🎓 How It Works

Step 1: Query Planning

The agent analyzes the query to determine if retrieval is needed:

Query: "What is machine learning?"
Plan: This is a factual question requiring knowledge base retrieval.

Step 2: Context Retrieval

ChromaDB performs semantic search:

Top 3 relevant chunks:
1. "Machine learning is a subset of AI..." (similarity: 0.85)
2. "ML algorithms learn from data..." (similarity: 0.78)
3. "Types of ML: supervised, unsupervised..." (similarity: 0.72)

Step 3: Answer Generation

LLM generates answer using context:

Answer: "Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence 
that enables systems to learn from data without explicit programming..."

Step 4: Reflection & Validation

Agent evaluates answer quality:

Relevance: Relevant
Quality Score: 0.90/1.0
Recommendation: ACCEPT

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📈 Performance

Metric	Value
Knowledge Base	301 chunks from 5 documents
Embedding Dimension	384 (MiniLM-L6-v2)
Average Query Time	15-25 seconds
Retrieval Accuracy	~85% relevance
Answer Quality (ROUGE-L)	0.65-0.85
Context Usage	3 chunks per query

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🔬 Testing

Run the agent with sample queries:

python main.py --mode sample

Example queries:

• "What is machine learning?"
• "Explain Python programming"
• "What are NoSQL databases?"
• "Tell me about cloud computing"
• "What is deep learning?"

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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🙏 Acknowledgments

• LangChain for the amazing RAG framework
• LangGraph for workflow orchestration
• ChromaDB for vector storage
• Hugging Face for open-source models
• Streamlit for the beautiful UI framework

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📞 Contact

Author: Harsh Mishra
Date: 2025-11-06
Email: harshmishra1132@gmail.com
GitHub: @HarshMishra-Git

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🎯 Task Completion Checklist

Core Requirements ✅

• Accept user questions
• Retrieve relevant information from text dataset
• Use LLM (OpenAI/Gemini/Claude/Groq/HuggingFace) to generate answers
• Show reflection/validation step
• Four LangGraph nodes: plan, retrieve, answer, reflect

Framework Requirements ✅

• LangGraph for agent workflow
• LangChain for RAG (retrieval + generation)
• ChromaDB for vector storage
• Hugging Face embeddings

Code Requirements ✅

• Runs locally (Python script ✅ / Jupyter notebook ✅)
• Includes requirements.txt
• Logging/print statements for each step
• Well-documented code

Bonus Points ✅

• Streamlit UI for interactive questions
• Evaluation code (ROUGE/BERTScore)
• Short report (1-2 paragraphs) describing agent and challenges

Submission ✅

• Python script (.py files)
• Jupyter notebook (optional, included)
• README.md with setup steps and approach

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