Batch scan support

[gustavz]

Hi do you have support for scanning text / prompts in batches? I am thinking about something like presidios BatchAnalyzerEngine. Right now llm-guard can efficiently only be used for single prompts or outputs, but can not be used to scan whole datasets (e.g for RAG). Do you plan to add support for those use cases?

[asofter]

Hey @gustavz , thanks for reaching out. RAG is the scope of the next release introducing more examples and features related to that. One of them can be a support of the batch.

Probably one thing we should explore is latency because there are a few ways to run it:

1. Sequentially like now
2. Using multiprocessing or threading libraries
3. Pass multiple texts in transformers and let them handle concurrency

I will keep you updated on the progress

[asofter]

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[vincent-pli]

Any more information? I work on RAG now, try to introduce guard in RAG process and I adopt ray to do the concurrency. but the result is not good enough...

[vincent-pli]

Maybe something like this(add scan_batch to prompt injection):

    def scan_batch(self, prompts: list[str]) -> list[(str, bool, float)]:
        if len(prompts) == 0:
            return []

        prompt_batch: list[str] = []
        for prompt in prompts:
            prompt_batch.extend(self._match_type.get_inputs(prompt))

        highest_score = 0.0
        results_all = self._pipeline(prompt_batch)

        result_batch: list[(bool, float)] = []
        for result in results_all:
            injection_score = round(
                result["score"] if result["label"] == self._model["label"] else 1 - result["score"],
                2,
            )

            if injection_score > highest_score:
                highest_score = injection_score

            if injection_score > self._threshold:
                logger.warning(f"Detected prompt injection with score: {injection_score}")
                result_batch.append((False, calculate_risk_score(injection_score, self._threshold)))
            else:
                result_batch.append((True, 0.0))

        return [(prompts[i],) + result_batch[i] for i in range(0, len(result_batch))]

[asofter]

Hey @vincent-pli , On one side, it makes sense to have prompts as a list. However, we are planning to improve accuracy by sending chunks of prompts instead to the pipeline. It might make things a bit more complex.

In the next version, we are planning to kick off the refactoring of inputs and outputs.