一图胜千言,LangChain
已经成为当前LLM应用框架的事实标准,这篇文章就来对LangChain基本概念以及其具体使用场景做一个整理
LangChain
是一个基于大语言模型的应用开发框架,它主要通过两种方式规范和简化了使用LLM
的方式:
LLM
中LLM
通过决策与特定的环境交互,并由LLM
协助决定下一步的操作LangChain的优点包括:
Chains
的同时,支持自行继承BaseChain并实现相关逻辑以及各个阶段的callback handler
等Langchain
团队迭代速度非常快,能快速使用最新的语言模型特性,该团队也有langsmith, auto-evaluator等其它优秀项目,并且开源社区也有相当多的支持这是一张LangChain
的组件与架构图(langchain python
和langchain JS/TS
的架构基本一致,本文中以langchain python
来完成相关介绍),基本完整描述了LangChain
的组件与抽象层(callback
不在这张图中,在下方我们会另外介绍),以及它们之间的相关联系
首先我们从最基本面的部分讲起,Model I/O 指的是和LLM直接进行交互的过程
在Model I/O这一流程中,LangChain抽象的组件主要有三个:
下面我们展开介绍一下
⚠️注:下面涉及的所有代码示例中的OPENAI_API_KEY
和OPENAI_BASE_URL
需要提前配置好,OPENAI_API_KEY
指OpenAI/OpenAI代理服务的API Key
,OPENAI_BASE_URL
指OpenAI代理服务的Base Url
Language Model
是真正与LLM / ChatModel进行交互的组件,它可以直接被当作普通的openai client来使用,在LangChain
中,主要使用到的是LLM
,Chat Model
和Embedding
三类Language Model
LLM: 最基础的通过“text in ➡️ text out”模式来使用的Language Model,另一方面,LangChain也收录了大量的第三方LLM
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
llm = OpenAI(model_name="text-ada-001", openai_api_key=OPENAI_API_KEY, openai_api_base=OPENAI_BASE_URL)
llm("What day comes after Friday?")
# '\n\nSaturday.'
Chat Model: LLM
的变体,抽象了Chat
这一场景下的使用模式,由“text in ➡️ text out”变成了“chat messages in ➡️ chat message out”,chat message
是指text + message type(System, Human, AI)
以下是一个简单的Chat Model
使用示例
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
from langchain.schema import HumanMessage, SystemMessage
chat = ChatOpenAI(model_name="gpt-4-0613", temperature=1, openai_api_key=OPENAI_API_KEY, openai_api_base=OPENAI_BASE_URL)
chat(
[
SystemMessage(content="You are an expert on large language models and can answer any questions related to large language models."),
HumanMessage(content="What’s the difference between Generic Language Models, Instruction Tuned Models and Dialog Tuned Models")
]
)
# AIMessage(content='Generic Language Models, Instruction-Tuned Models, and Dialog-Tuned Models are all various types of language models that have been trained according to different datasets and methodologies. They are used in different contexts according to their specific strengths. \n\n1. **Generic Language Models**: These models are trained on a broad range of internet text. They are typically not tuned to specific tasks and thus can be used across a wide variety of applications. GPT-3, used by OpenAI, is an example of a general language model.\n\n2. **Instruction-Tuned Models**: These are language models that are fine-tuned specifically to follow instructions given in a prompt. They are trained using a procedure called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), following an initial supervised fine-tuning which consists of human AI trainers providing conversations where they play both the user and an AI assistant. This model often includes comparison data - two or more model responses are ranked by quality.\n\n3. **Dialog-Tuned Models**: Like Instruction-Tuned Models, these models are also trained with reinforcement learning from human feedback, and especially shine in multi-turn conversations. However, these are specifically designed for dialog scenarios, resulting in an ability to maintain more coherent and context-aware conversations. \n\nIn essence, the difference among the three revolves around the breadth of their training and their specific use-cases. Generic Language Models are broad but may lack specificity; Instruction-Tuned Models are better at following specific instructions given in prompts; and Dialog-Tuned Models excel in carrying out more coherent and elongated dialogues.', additional_kwargs={}, example=False)
另一方面,LangChain也收录了大量的**第三方Chat Model**
Embedding: Embedding
将一段文字向量化为一个定长的向量,有了文本的向量化表示我们就可以做一些像语义搜索,聚类选择等来选择需要的文本片段,如下是将一个embed任意字符串的示例:
from langchain.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings(openai_api_key=OPENAI_API_KEY, openai_api_base=OPENAI_BASE_URL)
text_embedding = embeddings.embed_query("To embed text(it can have any length)")
print (f"Your embedding's length: {len(text_embedding)}")
print (f"Here's a sample: {text_embedding[:5]}...")
'''
Your embedding's length: 1536
Here's a sample: [-0.03194352, 0.009228715, 0.00807182, 0.0077545005, 0.008256923]...
'''
Prompt指用户的一系列指令和输入,是决定Language Model
输出内容的唯一输入,主要用于帮助模型理解上下文并生成相关和连贯的输出,如回答问题、拓写句子和总结问题。在LangChain
中的相关组件主要有Prompt Template
和Example selectors
,以及后面会提到的辅助/补充Prompt的一些其它组件
prompt
模版,支持更加灵活的输入,如支持**output instruction(输出格式指令), partial input(提前指定部分输入参数), examples(输入输出示例)**等;LangChain
提供了大量方法来创建Prompt Template
,有了这一层组件就可以在不同Language Model
和不同Chain
下大量复用Prompt Template
了,Prompt Template
中也会有下面将提到的Example selectors, Output Parser
的参与prompt
不足以让LLM
完成高质量的推理回答,这时候我们就还需要为prompt
补充一些针对具体问题的示例,LangChain将这一功能抽象为了Example selectors
这一组件,我们可以基于关键字,相似度(通常使用MMR/cosine similarity/ngram来计算相似度, 在后面的向量数据库章节中会提到)。为了让最终的prompt
不超过Language Model
的token上限(各个模型的token上限见下表),LangChain
还提供了LengthBasedExampleSelector
,根据长度来限制example数量,对于较长的输入,它会选择包含较少示例的提示,而对于较短的输入,它会选择包含更多示例
ModelMax TokensTraining Datagpt-48,192 tokensUp to Sep 2021gpt-4-06138,192 tokensUp to Sep 2021gpt-4-32k32,768 tokensUp to Sep 2021gpt-4-32k-061332,768 tokensUp to Sep 2021gpt-3.5-turbo4,096 tokensUp to Sep 2021gpt-3.5-turbo-16k16,384 tokensUp to Sep 2021gpt-3.5-turbo-06134,096 tokensUp to Sep 2021gpt-3.5-turbo-16k-061316,384 tokensUp to Sep 2021text-davinci-0034,097 tokensUp to Jun 2021text-davinci-0024,097 tokensUp to Jun 2021code-davinci-0028,001 tokensUp to Jun 2021通常我们希望Language Model
的输出是固定的格式,以支持我们解析其输出为结构化数据,LangChain
将这一诉求所需的功能抽象成了Output Parser
这一组件,并提供了一系列的预定义Output Parser
,如最常用的Structured output parser, List parser,以及在LLM
输出无法解析时发挥作用的Auto-fixing parser和Retry parser
Output Parser
需要和Prompt Template, Chain组合使用:
Prompt Template
中通过指定partial_variables
为Output Parser
的format,即可在prompt
中补充让模型输出所需格式内容的指令Chain
中指定Output Parser
,并使用Chain
的predict_and_parse / apply_and_parse
方法启动Chain
,即可直接输出解析后的数据以下是一个完整的组合Prompt Template, Output Parser和Chain的具体用例:
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature=0.5, model_name="gpt-3.5-turbo-16k-0613", openai_api_key=OPENAI_API_KEY, openai_api_base=OPENAI_BASE_URL)
template = """
## Input
{text}
## Instruction
Please summarize the piece of text in the input part above.
Respond in a manner that a 5 year old would understand.
{format_instructions}
YOUR RESPONSE:
"""
# 创建一个Output Parser,包含两个输出字段,并指定类型和说明
output_parser = StructuredOutputParser.from_response_schemas(
[
ResponseSchema(name="keywords", type="list", description="keywords of the text"),
ResponseSchema(name="summary", type="string", description="summary of the text"),
]
)
# 创建Prompt Template,并将format_instructions通过partial_variables直接指定为Output Parser的format
prompt = PromptTemplate(
input_variables=["text"],
template=template,
partial_variables={"format_instructions": output_parser.get_format_instructions()},
)
# 创建Chain并绑定Prompt Template和Output Parser(它将自动使用Output Parser解析llm输出)
summarize_chain = LLMChain(llm=llm, verbose=True, prompt=prompt, output_parser=output_parser)
to_summarize_text = 'Abstract. Text-to-SQL aims at generating SQL queries for the given natural language questions and thus helping users to query databases. Prompt learning with large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a recent approach, which designs prompts to lead LLMs to understand the input question and generate the corresponding SQL. However, it faces challenges with strict SQL syntax requirements. Existing work prompts the LLMs with a list of demonstration examples (i.e. question-SQL pairs) to generate SQL, but the fixed prompts can hardly handle the scenario where the semantic gap between the retrieved demonstration and the input question is large.'
output = summarize_chain.predict(text=to_summarize_text)
import json
print (json.dumps(output, indent=4))
输出如下:
{
"keywords": [
"Text-to-SQL",
"SQL queries",
"natural language questions",
"databases",
"prompt learning",
"large language models",
"LLMs",
"SQL syntax requirements",
"demonstration examples",
"semantic gap"
],
"summary": "Text-to-SQL is a method that helps users generate SQL queries for their questions about databases. One approach is to use large language models to understand the question and generate the SQL. However, this approach faces challenges with strict SQL syntax rules. Existing methods use examples to teach the language models, but they struggle when the examples are very different from the question."
}
正如我在文章开头的LangChain是什么一节中提到的,集成外部数据到Language Model中是LangChain提供的核心能力之一,也是市面上很多优秀的大语言模型应用成功的核心之一(Github Copilot Chat,网页聊天助手,论文总结助手,youtube视频总结助手…),在LangChain
中,Data connection
这一层主要包含以下四个抽象组件:
下面我们展开介绍一下
为了补全LLM的上下文信息,给予其足够的提示,我们需要从各类数据源获取各类数据,这也就是LangChain
抽象的Document loaders
这一组件的功能
使用Document loaders
可以将源中的数据加载为Document
。Document
由一段文本和相关元数据组成。例如,有用于加载简单.txt文件的,用于加载相对结构化的markdown文件的,用于加载任何网页文本内容,甚至用于加载解析YouTube视频的脚本
同时LangChain还收录了海量的第三方Document loaders,以下是一个使用NotionDBLoader
来加载notion database
中的page
为Document
的示例:
from langchain.document_loaders import NotionDBLoader
from getpass import getpass
# getpass()指引用户输入密钥
NOTION_TOKEN = getpass()
DATABASE_ID = getpass()
loader = NotionDBLoader(
integration_token=NOTION_TOKEN,
database_id=DATABASE_ID,
request_timeout_sec=30, # optional, defaults to 10
)
# 请求详情见 https://developers.notion.com/reference/post-database-query
docs = loader.load()
docs[0].page_content[:100]
当我们加载Document到内存后,我们通常还会希望将他们尽可能的结构化 / 分块,以进行更加灵活的操作
最简单的例子是,我们很多时候都需要将一个长文档拆分成更小的块,以便放入模型的上下文窗口中;LangChain有许多内置的Document transformers(大部分都是Text Spliter
),可以轻松地拆分、合并、筛选和以其他方式操作文档,一些常用的Document transformers如下:
Document transformers | 功能 |
---|---|
LatexTextSplitter | 沿着Latex标题、标题、枚举等分割文本 |
MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter | 沿着指定的Markdown的section header分割 |
NLTKTextSplitter | 使用NLTK的分割器 |
PythonCodeTextSplitter | 沿着Python类和方法的定义分割文本 |
RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter | 用于通用文本的分割器。它以一个字符列表为参数,尽可能地把所有的段落(然后是句子,然后是单词)放在一起 |
SpacyTextSplitter | 使用Spacy的分割器 |
TokenTextSplitter | 根据openAI的token数进行分割 |
同时LangChain也收录了很多第三方的Document transformers(如基于爬虫中常见的beautiful soup, 基于OpenAI打metadata tag的等等)
在前面的Prompt一节中我们提到了Example selectors,那么我们要如何找到相关示例呢?通常这个答案就是向量数据库
存储和搜索非结构化数据的最常见方式之一是将其向量化(embedding)并存储所得到的嵌入向量,然后在查询时向量化非结构化查询并检索与嵌入的查询最相似的向量。Vector stores负责存储向量化数据并提供向量搜索的功能,常见的向量数据库包括FAISS, Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma等,日常使用更常用的是FAISS
同时LangChain也收录了很多第三方的Vector Stores,提供更加强大的向量搜索等功能
Retrievers是LangChain提供的将Document
与Language Model
相结合的组件
LangChain中有许多不同类型的Retrievers,但最广泛使用的就是VectoreStoreRetriever,我们可以直接把它当做连接向量数据库和Language Model的中间层,并且VectoreStoreRetriever的使用也很简单,直接retriever = db.as_retriever()
即可
当然我们还有很多其它的Retrievers如Web search Retrievers等,LangChain也收录了很多第三方的Retrievers
以下就是一个使用向量数据库 + VectoreStoreRetriever + QA Chain的QA应用示例:
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
from langchain.vectorstores import FAISS
from langchain.chains import RetrievalQA
from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.text_splitter import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
# 初始化LLM
llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature=0.5, model_name="gpt-3.5-turbo-16k-0613", openai_api_key=OPENAI_API_KEY, openai_api_base=OPENAI_PROXY_URL)
# 加载文档
loader = TextLoader('path/to/related/document')
doc = loader.load()
print (f"You have {len(doc)} document")
print (f"You have {len(doc[0].page_content)} characters in that document")
# 分割字符串
text_splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=3000, chunk_overlap=400)
docs = text_splitter.split_documents(doc)
num_total_characters = sum([len(x.page_content) for x in docs])
print (f"Now you have {len(docs)} documents that have an average of {num_total_characters / len(docs):,.0f} characters (smaller pieces)")
# 初始化向量化模型
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings(openai_api_key=OPENAI_API_KEY, openai_api_base=OPENAI_PROXY_URL)
# 向量化Document并存入向量数据库(绑定向量和对应Document元数据),这里我们选择本地最常用的FAISS数据库
# 注意: 这会向OpenAI产生请求并产生费用
doc_search = FAISS.from_documents(docs, embeddings)
qa = RetrievalQA.from_chain_type(llm=llm, chain_type="stuff", retriever=doc_search.as_retriever(), verbose=True)
query = "Specific questions to be asked"
qa.run(query)
执行后verbose输出日志如下:
You have 1 document You have 74663 characters in that document Now you have 29 documents that have an average of 2,930 characters (smaller pieces) > Entering new chain… Prompt after formatting: System: Use the following pieces of context to answer the users question. If you don’t know the answer, just say that you don’t know, don’t try to make up an answer. ---------------- … Human: What does the author describe as good work? The author describes working on things that aren’t prestigious as a sign of good work. They believe that working on unprestigious types of work can lead to the discovery of something real and that it indicates having the right kind of motives. The author also mentions that working on things that last, such as paintings, is considered good work.
接下来就是LangChain中的主角——Chains了,Chains是LangChain中为连接多次与Language Model的交互过程而抽象的重要组件,它可以将多个组件组合在一起以创建一个单一的、连贯的任务,也可以嵌套多个Chain组合在一起,或者将Chain与其他组件组合来构建更复杂的Chain
除了单一Chain外,常用的几个Chains如下:
在一些场景下,我们需要根据输入 / 上下文决定使用哪一条Chain,甚至哪一个Prompt,Router Chain就提供了诸如MultiPromptChain, LLMRouterChain等一系列用于决策的Chain(这与后面我们会提到的Agent有类似的地方)
Router Chain由两部分组成:
顾名思义,顺序执行的串行Chain,其中最简单的SimpleSequentialChain非常简单粗暴,SimpleSequentialChain的每个子Chain都有一个单一的输入/输出,并且一个步骤的输出是下一步的输入 而高阶一些的SequentialChain则允许多输入输出,并且我们可以通过添加后面会提到的Memory等来提高其推理表现
Map-reduce Chain主要用于summary的场景,针对那些超长的文档,首先我们通过前面提到过的TextSpliter按一定规则分割文档为更小的Chunks(通常使用RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter,如果Document是结构化的可以考虑使用指定的TextSpliter),然后对每个分割的部分执行”map-chain”,收集全部”map-chain”的输出后,再执行”reduce-chain”,获得最终的summary输出
下面就是一个Router Chain中的MultiPromptChain的具体示例:
from langchain.chains.router import MultiPromptChain
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chains import ConversationChain
from langchain.chains.llm import LLMChain
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
from langchain.chains.router.llm_router import LLMRouterChain, RouterOutputParser
from langchain.chains.router.multi_prompt_prompt import MULTI_PROMPT_ROUTER_TEMPLATE
# 定义要路由的prompts
physics_template = """You are a very smart physics professor. \
You are great at answering questions about physics in a concise and easy to understand manner. \
When you don't know the answer to a question you admit that you don't know.
Here is a question:
{input}"""
math_template = """You are a very good mathematician. You are great at answering math questions. \
You are so good because you are able to break down hard problems into their component parts, \
answer the component parts, and then put them together to answer the broader question.
Here is a question:
{input}"""
# 整理prompt和相关信息
prompt_infos = [
{
"name": "physics",
"description": "Good for answering questions about physics",
"prompt_template": physics_template,
},
{
"name": "math",
"description": "Good for answering math questions",
"prompt_template": math_template,
},
]
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0.5, openai_api_key=OPENAI_API_KEY, openai_api_base=OPENAI_PROXY_URL+"/v1")
destination_chains = {}
for p_info in prompt_infos:
# 以每个prompt为基础创建一个destination_chain(开启verbose)
name = p_info["name"]
prompt_template = p_info["prompt_template"]
prompt = PromptTemplate(template=prompt_template, input_variables=["input"])
chain = LLMChain(llm=llm, prompt=prompt)
destination_chains[name] = chain
# 创建一个缺省chain,如果没有其他chain满足路由条件,则使用该chain
default_chain = ConversationChain(llm=llm, output_key="text")
destinations = [f"{p['name']}: {p['description']}" for p in prompt_infos]
destinations_str = "\n".join(destinations)
# 根据prompt_infos中的映射关系创建router_prompt
router_template = MULTI_PROMPT_ROUTER_TEMPLATE.format(destinations=destinations_str)
router_prompt = PromptTemplate(
template=router_template,
input_variables=["input"],
output_parser=RouterOutputParser(),
)
# 创建router_chain(开启verbose)
router_chain = LLMRouterChain(llm_chain=LLMChain(llm=llm, prompt=router_prompt, verbose=True), verbose=True)
# 将router_chain和destination_chains以及default_chain组合成MultiPromptChain(开启verbose)
chain = MultiPromptChain(
router_chain=router_chain,
destination_chains=destination_chains,
default_chain=default_chain,
verbose=True,
)
# run
chain.run("What is black body radiation?")
执行后verbose输出日志如下:
Entering new chain… Prompt after formatting: ***Given a raw text input to a language model select the model prompt best suited for the input. You will be given the names of the available prompts and a description of what the prompt is best suited for. You may also revise the original input if you think that revising it will ultimately lead to a better response from the language model. << FORMATTING >> Return a markdown code snippet with a JSON object formatted to look like: { "destination": string \ name of the prompt to use or "DEFAULT" "next_inputs": string \ a potentially modified version of the original input }REMEMBER: “destination” MUST be one of the candidate prompt names specified below OR it can be “DEFAULT” if the input is not well suited for any of the candidate prompts. REMEMBER: “next_inputs” can just be the original input if you don’t think any modifications are needed. << CANDIDATE PROMPTS >> physics: Good for answering questions about physics math: Good for answering math questions << INPUT >> What is black body radiation? << OUTPUT >>*** > Finished chain. physics: {‘input’: ‘What is black body radiation?’} > Entering new chain… Prompt after formatting: ***You are a very smart physics professor. You are great at answering questions about physics in a concise and easy to understand manner. When you don’t know the answer to a question you admit that you don’t know. Here is a question: What is black body radiation?*** > Finished chain.
Memory
可以帮助Language Model
补充历史信息的上下文,LangChain
中的Memory
是一个有点模糊的术语,它可以像记住你过去聊天过的信息一样简单,也可以结合向量数据库做更加复杂的历史信息检索,甚至维护相关实体及其关系的具体信息,这取决于具体的应用
通常Memory用于较长的Chain,能一定程度上提高模型的推理表现
常用的Memory类型如下:
buffer memory
和summary memory
的策略,依旧会在内存中保留最后的一些Chat记录作为buffer,并在buffer的总token数达到预置的上限后,对所有Chat记录总结摘要作为SystemMessage并清理其它历史Messages;这种memory方案结合了buffer memory
和summary memory
的优点,既不会频繁地总结摘要消耗token,也不会让buffer缺失过多信息下面是一个Conversation Summary Buffer Memory
在ConversationChain
中的使用示例,包含了切换会话时恢复现场memory的方法以及自定义summary prompt的方法:
from langchain.chains import ConversationChain
from langchain.memory import ConversationSummaryBufferMemory
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.schema import SystemMessage, AIMessage, HumanMessage
from langchain.memory.prompt import SUMMARY_PROMPT
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0.7, openai_api_key=OPENAI_API_KEY, openai_api_base=OPENAI_PROXY_URL+"/v1")
# ConversationSummaryBufferMemory默认使用langchain.memory.prompt.SUMMARY_PROMPT作为summary的PromptTemplate
# 如果对它summary的格式/内容有特殊要求,可以自定义PromptTemplate(实测默认的summary有些流水账)
prompt_template_str = """
## Instruction
Progressively summarize the lines of conversation provided, adding onto the previous summary returning a new concise and detailed summary.
Don't repeat the conversation directly in the summary, extract key information instead.
## EXAMPLE
Current summary:
The human asks what the AI thinks of artificial intelligence. The AI thinks artificial intelligence is a force for good.
New lines of conversation:
Human: Why do you think artificial intelligence is a force for good?
AI: Because artificial intelligence will help humans reach their full potential.
New summary:
The human inquires about the AI's opinion on artificial intelligence. The AI believes that it is a force for good as it can help humans reach their full potential.
## Current summary
{summary}
## New lines of conversation
{new_lines}
## New summary
"""
prompt = PromptTemplate(
input_variables=SUMMARY_PROMPT.input_variables, # input_variables为SUMMARY_PROMPT中的input_variables不变
template=prompt_template_str, # template替换为上面重新编写的prompt_template_str
)
memory = ConversationSummaryBufferMemory(llm=llm, prompt=prompt, max_token_limit=60)
# 添加历史memory,其中第一条SystemMessage为历史对话中Summary的内容,第二条HumanMessage和第三条AIMessage为历史对话中最后的对话内容
memory.chat_memory.add_message(SystemMessage(content="The human asks what the AI thinks of artificial intelligence. The AI thinks artificial intelligence is a force for good because it will help humans reach their full potential. The human then asks the difference between python and golang in short. The AI responds that python is a high-level interpreted language with an emphasis on readability and code readability, while golang is a statically typed compiled language with a focus on concurrency and performance. Python is typically used for general-purpose programming, while golang is often used for building distributed systems."))
memory.chat_memory.add_user_message("Then if I want to build a distributed system, which language should I choose?")
memory.chat_memory.add_ai_message("If you want to build a distributed system, I would recommend golang as it is a statically typed compiled language that is designed to facilitate concurrency and performance.")
# 调用memory.prune()确保chat_memory中的对话内容不超过max_token_limit
memory.prune()
conversation_with_summary = ConversationChain(
llm=llm,
# We set a very low max_token_limit for the purposes of testing.
memory=memory,
verbose=True,
)
# memory.prune()会在每次调用predict()后自动执行
conversation_with_summary.predict(input="Is there any well-known distributed system built with golang?")
conversation_with_summary.predict(input="Is there a substitutes for Kubernetes in python?")
执行后verbose输出日志如下:
> Entering new chain… Prompt after formatting: ***The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know. Current conversation: System: The human asks the AI about its opinion on artificial intelligence and is told that it is a force for good that can help humans reach their full potential. The human then inquires about the differences between python and golang, with the AI explaining that python is a high-level interpreted language for general-purpose programming, while golang is a statically typed compiled language often used for building distributed systems. Human: Then if I want to build a distributed system, which language should I choose? AI: If you want to build a distributed system, I would recommend golang as it is a statically typed compiled language that is designed to facilitate concurrency and performance. Human: Is there any well-known distributed system built with golang? AI:*** > Finished chain. > Entering new chain… Prompt after formatting: ***The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know. Current conversation: System: The human asks the AI about its opinion on artificial intelligence and is told that it is a force for good that can help humans reach their full potential. The human then inquires about the differences between python and golang, with the AI explaining that python is a high-level interpreted language for general-purpose programming, while golang is a statically typed compiled language designed to facilitate concurrency and performance, thus better suited for distributed systems. The AI recommends golang for building distributed systems. Human: Is there any well-known distributed system built with golang? AI: Yes, there are several well-known distributed systems built with golang. These include Kubernetes, Docker, and Consul. Human: Is there a substitutes for Kubernetes in python? AI:*** > Finished chain. ’Yes, there are several substitutes for Kubernetes in python. These include Dask, Apache Mesos and Marathon, and Apache Aurora.’
在一些场景下,我们需要根据用户输入灵活地调用LLM
和其它工具(LangChain
将工具抽象为Tools这一组件),Agent为这样的应用程序提供了相关的支持
Agent
可以访问一套工具,并根据用户输入确定要使用Chain
或是Function
,我们可以简单的理解为他可以动态的帮我们选择和调用Chain或者已有的工具
常用的Agent
类型如下:
这类Agent可以根据Language Model的输出决定是否使用指定的Tool,以及使用什么Tool(这里的Tool也可以是一个Chain),以及时的为Model I/O的过程补充信息
类似Conversational Agent,但它能够让Agent更进一步地帮忙提取指定Tool的参数等,甚至使用多个Tools
抽象Agent“决定做什么”的过程为“planning what to do”和“executing the sub tasks”(这种方法来自"Plan-and-Solve"这一篇论文),其中“planning what to do”这一步通常完全由LLM完成,而“executing the sub tasks”这一任务则通常由更多的Tools来完成
结合对LLM输出的归因和执行,类似OpenAI functions Agent,提供了一个更加明确的框架以及由论文支撑的方法
这类Agent会基于LLM的输出,自行调用Tools以及LLM来进行额外的搜索和自查,以达到拓展和优化输出的目的
LangChain 中的Data Connection将LLM与万物互联,给LangChain构建的应用带来了无限可能,而Agent又为应用开发中非常常见的”事件驱动“这一开发框架提供了偷懒的途径,将分支决策的工作交给LLM,这又进一步简化了应用开发的工作;结合基于高度抽象的Model I/O及Memory等组件,LangChain让开发者能够更快,更好更灵活地实现 LLM 助手、对话机器人等应用,极大地降低了 LLM 的使用门槛