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Regardless of the text length, the QAGenerationChain consistently generates only one question. #14074

Closed khacsinhcs closed 6 months ago

khacsinhcs commented 9 months ago

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Regardless of the text length, the QAGenerationChain consistently generates only one question.

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from langchain.chains import QAGenerationChain
from langchain.llms import OpenAI

# Initialize the language model
lm = OpenAI()

# Create the QA Generator Chain
qa_chain = QAGenerationChain.from_llm(llm=lm)
qa_chain.k = 4

# Example usage
context = """
Introduction
LangChain is a framework for developing applications powered by language models. It enables applications that:

Are context-aware: connect a language model to sources of context (prompt instructions, few shot examples, content to ground its response in, etc.)
Reason: rely on a language model to reason (about how to answer based on provided context, what actions to take, etc.)
This framework consists of several parts.

LangChain Libraries: The Python and JavaScript libraries. Contains interfaces and integrations for a myriad of components, a basic run time for combining these components into chains and agents, and off-the-shelf implementations of chains and agents.
LangChain Templates: A collection of easily deployable reference architectures for a wide variety of tasks.
LangServe: A library for deploying LangChain chains as a REST API.
LangSmith: A developer platform that lets you debug, test, evaluate, and monitor chains built on any LLM framework and seamlessly integrates with LangChain.
LangChain Diagram

Together, these products simplify the entire application lifecycle:

Develop: Write your applications in LangChain/LangChain.js. Hit the ground running using Templates for reference.
Productionize: Use LangSmith to inspect, test and monitor your chains, so that you can constantly improve and deploy with confidence.
Deploy: Turn any chain into an API with LangServe.
LangChain Libraries
The main value props of the LangChain packages are:

Components: composable tools and integrations for working with language models. Components are modular and easy-to-use, whether you are using the rest of the LangChain framework or not
Off-the-shelf chains: built-in assemblages of components for accomplishing higher-level tasks
Off-the-shelf chains make it easy to get started. Components make it easy to customize existing chains and build new ones.

Get started
Here’s how to install LangChain, set up your environment, and start building.

We recommend following our Quickstart guide to familiarize yourself with the framework by building your first LangChain application.

Read up on our Security best practices to make sure you're developing safely with LangChain.

NOTE
These docs focus on the Python LangChain library. Head here for docs on the JavaScript LangChain library.

LangChain Expression Language (LCEL)
LCEL is a declarative way to compose chains. LCEL was designed from day 1 to support putting prototypes in production, with no code changes, from the simplest “prompt + LLM” chain to the most complex chains.

Overview: LCEL and its benefits
Interface: The standard interface for LCEL objects
How-to: Key features of LCEL
Cookbook: Example code for accomplishing common tasks
Modules
LangChain provides standard, extendable interfaces and integrations for the following modules:

Model I/O
Interface with language models

Retrieval
Interface with application-specific data

Agents
Let models choose which tools to use given high-level directives

Examples, ecosystem, and resources
Use cases
Walkthroughs and techniques for common end-to-end use cases, like:

Document question answering
Chatbots
Analyzing structured data
and much more...
Integrations
LangChain is part of a rich ecosystem of tools that integrate with our framework and build on top of it. Check out our growing list of integrations.

Guides
Best practices for developing with LangChain.

API reference
Head to the reference section for full documentation of all classes and methods in the LangChain and LangChain Experimental Python packages.

Developer's guide
Check out the developer's guide for guidelines on contributing and help getting your dev environment set up.

Community
Head to the Community navigator to find places to ask questions, share feedback, meet other developers, and dream about the future of LLM’s.
"""
questions = qa_chain.run(context)

print(questions)

output

[{'question': 'What are the main value props of the LangChain packages?', 'answer': 'The main value props of the LangChain packages are composable tools and integrations for working with language models, off-the-shelf chains for accomplishing higher-level tasks, and the ability to easily deploy chains as a REST API.'}]

Expected behavior

I expect to specify the number of responses by setting the 'k' value.

dosubot[bot] commented 9 months ago

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Hello @khacsinhcs! I'm Dosu, a friendly bot here to assist you with your issues and questions related to LangChain. While we wait for a human maintainer to arrive, I'm here to help you with your issue. Don't worry, we'll work through this together!

Based on the information provided, it seems like the k attribute is not being utilized in the _call method of the QAGenerationChain class. This is likely why you're only seeing one question generated, regardless of the text length.

Here's the relevant part of the _call method:

def _call(
    self,
    inputs: Dict[str, Any],
    run_manager: Optional[CallbackManagerForChainRun] = None,
) -> Dict[str, List]:
    docs = self.text_splitter.create_documents([inputs[self.input_key]])
    results = self.llm_chain.generate(
        [{"text": d.page_content} for d in docs], run_manager=run_manager
    )
    qa = [json.loads(res[0].text) for res in results.generations]
    return {self.output_key: qa}

As you can see, the k attribute is not passed to the generate method of the llm_chain object. This means that the generate method doesn't know how many questions to generate.

To fix this issue, you would need to modify the _call method to pass the k attribute to the generate method of the llm_chain object. However, without seeing the implementation of the generate method, it's hard to provide a concrete solution.

The generate method in the llm_chain object is implemented as follows:

def generate(
    self,
    input_list: List[Dict[str, Any]],
    run_manager: Optional[CallbackManagerForChainRun] = None,
) -> LLMResult:
    """Generate LLM result from inputs."""
    prompts, stop = self.prep_prompts(input_list, run_manager=run_manager)
    callbacks = run_manager.get_child() if run_manager else None
    if isinstance(self.llm, BaseLanguageModel):
        return self.llm.generate_prompt(
            prompts,
            stop,
            callbacks=callbacks,
            **self.llm_kwargs,
        )
    else:
        results = self.llm.bind(stop=stop, **self.llm_kwargs).batch(
            cast(List, prompts), {"callbacks": callbacks}
        )
        generations: List[List[Generation]] = []
        for res in results:
            if isinstance(res, BaseMessage):
                generations.append([ChatGeneration(message=res)])
            else:
                generations.append([Generation(text=res)])
        return LLMResult(generations=generations)

This method takes a list of inputs and an optional run manager. It prepares the prompts using the prep_prompts method and gets the child of the run manager if it exists. If the language model is an instance of BaseLanguageModel, it generates a prompt using the generate_prompt method of the language model. If not, it binds the stop and other keyword arguments to the language model and processes the prompts in batches. The results are then processed and returned as an LLMResult object.

I hope this helps! If you have any other questions or need further clarification, feel free to ask.

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