VLLM: Can't instantiate abstract class VLLM with abstract method _agenerate

Yuval-Moshe commented 1 year ago

System Info

langchain 0.0.274: When trying to instantiate a VLLM object, I'm getting the following error:

TypeError: Can't instantiate abstract class VLLM with abstract method _agenerate

This is the code I'm using which is 1-1 as the VLLM example on langchain documentation: https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/llms/vllm

from langchain.llms.vllm import VLLM

vlmm = VLLM(model="mosaicml/mpt-7b",
           trust_remote_code=True,  # mandatory for hf models
           max_new_tokens=128,
           top_k=10,
           top_p=0.95,
           temperature=0.8,
)

It seems that the VLLM model is derived from the BaseLLM object, which has an abstract method of _agenerate, but is not providing an implementation for it.

In addition to that, you might notice that I used from langchain.llms.vllm import VLLM instead of from langchain.llms import VLLM as the documentation, that's because for from langchain.llms import VLLM I'm getting an "cannot import name 'VLLM' from 'langchain.llms'" error

Any insights regarding this one?

Who can help?

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Information

[X] The official example notebooks/scripts
[ ] My own modified scripts

Related Components

[X] LLMs/Chat Models
[ ] Embedding Models
[ ] Prompts / Prompt Templates / Prompt Selectors
[ ] Output Parsers
[ ] Document Loaders
[ ] Vector Stores / Retrievers
[ ] Memory
[ ] Agents / Agent Executors
[ ] Tools / Toolkits
[ ] Chains
[ ] Callbacks/Tracing
[ ] Async

Reproduction

instantiate a VLLM object just like in the official documentation: https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/llms/vllm

Expected behavior

The object should be created and load model successfully

dosubot[bot] commented 1 year ago

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Hello,

The error you're encountering, "TypeError: Can't instantiate abstract class VLLM with abstract method _agenerate", is due to the fact that the VLLM class is inheriting from an abstract base class BaseLLM and not implementing the abstract method _agenerate. In Python, if a class is derived from an abstract base class, it must implement all the abstract methods of the base class.

The _agenerate method in the BaseLLM class is an abstract method that is meant to be implemented by subclasses. It is designed to run the language model on the given prompts asynchronously. The method takes a list of prompts, an optional list of stop words, an optional run manager, and any additional keyword arguments. It returns an LLMResult object.

Here is a simple example of how you might implement it:

async def _agenerate(
    self,
    prompts: List[str],
    stop: Optional[List[str]] = None,
    run_manager: Optional[AsyncCallbackManagerForLLMRun] = None,
    **kwargs: Any,
) -> LLMResult:
    """Asynchronously run the LLM on the given prompt and input."""
    # This is just a placeholder implementation. Replace with your actual implementation.
    pass

Regarding the import issue, the reason you are unable to import VLLM directly from langchain.llms is likely because the __init__.py file in the llms directory does not include an import statement for VLLM.

To fix this, you need to add an import statement for VLLM in the __init__.py file in the llms directory:

from .vllm import VLLM

After making these changes, you should be able to instantiate a VLLM object and import VLLM directly from langchain.llms.

Please let me know if you have any other questions or if there's anything else I can help with.

Best, Dosu

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dosubot[bot] commented 9 months ago

Hi, @Yuval-Moshe! I'm Dosu, and I'm here to help the LangChain team manage their backlog. I wanted to let you know that we are marking this issue as stale.

From what I understand, you encountered an error when trying to instantiate a VLLM object. The error message "TypeError: Can't instantiate abstract class VLLM with abstract method _agenerate" suggests that the VLLM model is derived from the BaseLLM object, which has an abstract method _agenerate but does not provide an implementation for it.

However, it seems that the issue has already been resolved. The suggested solution was to implement the _agenerate method in the VLLM class and add an import statement for VLLM in the init.py file in the llms directory.

Before we close this issue, could you please confirm if it is still relevant to the latest version of the LangChain repository? If it is, please let us know by commenting on the issue. Otherwise, feel free to close the issue yourself or it will be automatically closed in 7 days.

Thank you for your understanding and contribution to the LangChain project! Let us know if you have any further questions or concerns.

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