[Bug]: ValueError: Failed to convert output to JSON when using custom LLM in Router QE

Bug Description

I was trying to build a QA engine on SQL Database and Unstructured text, since Llama-index provides the connectivity Huggingface LLMs. I went with using that, when performing the inference on a given query using RouterQueryEngine, i am getting ValueError: Failed to convert output to JSON regardless of the query.

Version

0.8.49

Steps to Reproduce

Attaching the code snippet:

import torch
from langchain.llms.base import LLM
from llama_index import SimpleDirectoryReader, LangchainEmbedding, ListIndex
from llama_index import LLMPredictor, ServiceContext
from transformers import pipeline
from typing import Optional, List, Mapping, Any

model_name = "gpt2"

pipeline = pipeline("text-generation", model=model_name)
class CustomLLM(LLM):

    def _call(self, prompt: str, stop: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> str:
        prompt_length = len(prompt)
        response = pipeline(prompt, max_new_tokens=256)[0]["generated_text"]

        # only return newly generated tokens
        return response[prompt_length:]

    @property
    def _identifying_params(self) -> Mapping[str, Any]:
        return {"name_of_model": model_name}

    @property
    def _llm_type(self) -> str:
        return "custom"

import torch
from langchain.embeddings import HuggingFaceEmbeddings
from llama_index import ServiceContext, set_global_service_context, LLMPredictor
from llama_index.node_parser import SimpleNodeParser

device = torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')
model_name = "sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2"
model_kwargs = {'device': device}
encode_kwargs = {'normalize_embeddings': False}

embed_model = HuggingFaceEmbeddings(
    model_name=model_name,
    model_kwargs=model_kwargs,
    encode_kwargs=encode_kwargs
)

node_parser = SimpleNodeParser.from_defaults(chunk_size=200, chunk_overlap=20)
llm_predictor = LLMPredictor(llm=CustomLLM())
service_context = ServiceContext.from_defaults(
    llm_predictor=llm_predictor, 
    embed_model=embed_model,
    node_parser=node_parser,
    num_output=256
)
set_global_service_context(service_context)

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from llama_index import SQLDatabase, ServiceContext

engine = create_engine("sqlite:///./rag_data/swimmingdataset.db")
sql_database = SQLDatabase(engine)
from llama_index.indices.struct_store.sql_query import NLSQLTableQueryEngine

sql_query_engine = NLSQLTableQueryEngine(
    sql_database=sql_database,
    tables=["men_butterfly_50m"]
)

from llama_index import VectorStoreIndex, SimpleDirectoryReader, ServiceContext
from llama_index.llms import HuggingFaceLLM
from llama_index.storage import StorageContext

data = SimpleDirectoryReader(
    input_files=["./rag_data/swimmingdataset.txt"]
).load_data()

storage_context = StorageContext.from_defaults()
index = VectorStoreIndex.from_documents(
    data
)

from llama_index.tools.query_engine import QueryEngineTool

sql_tool = QueryEngineTool.from_defaults(
    query_engine=sql_query_engine,
    description=(
        "Useful for translating a natural language query into a SQL query over"
        "Contains multiple tables of world records in men's and women's 50 and 100 meters butterfly style."
    ),
)

vector_tool = QueryEngineTool.from_defaults(
    query_engine=index.as_query_engine(),
    description="Useful for answering questions based on the persons personal information and records",
)

from llama_index.query_engine.router_query_engine import RouterQueryEngine
from llama_index.selectors.llm_selectors import LLMSingleSelector
from llama_index.selectors.pydantic_selectors import PydanticSingleSelector

query_engine = RouterQueryEngine(
    selector=LLMSingleSelector.from_defaults(),
    query_engine_tools=([sql_tool, vector_tool]),
)
query_engine.query(
    "Tell me about the Ian Crocker and his 100 meters records"
)

Relevant Logs/Tracbacks

Setting `pad_token_id` to `eos_token_id`:50256 for open-end generation.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[11], line 1
----> 1 query_engine.query(
      2     "Tell me about the Ian Crocker and his 100 meters records"
      3 )

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/indices/query/base.py:23, in BaseQueryEngine.query(self, str_or_query_bundle)
     21 if isinstance(str_or_query_bundle, str):
     22     str_or_query_bundle = QueryBundle(str_or_query_bundle)
---> 23 return self._query(str_or_query_bundle)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/query_engine/router_query_engine.py:146, in RouterQueryEngine._query(self, query_bundle)
    142 def _query(self, query_bundle: QueryBundle) -> RESPONSE_TYPE:
    143     with self.callback_manager.event(
    144         CBEventType.QUERY, payload={EventPayload.QUERY_STR: query_bundle.query_str}
    145     ) as query_event:
--> 146         result = self._selector.select(self._metadatas, query_bundle)
    148         if len(result.inds) > 1:
    149             responses = []

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/selectors/types.py:76, in BaseSelector.select(self, choices, query)
     74 metadatas = [_wrap_choice(choice) for choice in choices]
     75 query_bundle = _wrap_query(query)
---> 76 return self._select(choices=metadatas, query=query_bundle)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/selectors/llm_selectors.py:100, in LLMSingleSelector._select(self, choices, query)
     98 # parse output
     99 assert self._prompt.output_parser is not None
--> 100 parse = self._prompt.output_parser.parse(prediction)
    101 return _structured_output_to_selector_result(parse)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/output_parsers/selection.py:95, in SelectionOutputParser.parse(self, output)
     92     json_obj = [json_obj]
     94 if not json_obj:
---> 95     raise ValueError(f"Failed to convert output to JSON: {output!r}")
     97 json_output = self._format_output(json_obj)
     98 answers = [Answer.from_dict(json_dict) for json_dict in json_output]

ValueError: Failed to convert output to JSON: '\n[\n\nName="Ian Crocker"\n\nAlias="World record">Ian Crocker</Alias>\n\nName="100 meters butterfly butterfly butterfly</Name>\n\nAlias="Migration">Migration</Alias>\n\nName="Country"\n\nAlias="Country">France</Alias>\n\nName="Gender"><insert gender for option>">Gender</Insert>\n\nName="Country Code"><insert country code for option>"\n\n\nThen create the JSON using the Java Runtime Environment\n\njar javac.jar /web/java\n\nOnce imported to the web browser, create a "Connection" field that should display http://localhost:9000 /localhost:9000-Migration\n\nWhen you create a new connection (or a connection from a custom website or app), all records would be added to the "RefreshList" with a new "refresh" and "remove" button:\n\n[\n\n{{\n\nPostName="Ian Crocker"\n\nId="33″\n\nTime="4"\n\nDateFormat="http://localhost:9000/RefreshList/refresh list, and this will return the results as:\n\n{{postName}}"\n\n}}'

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Hello @Kirushikesh,

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Based on the error message you provided, it seems like the output from the CustomLLM class's _call method is not being correctly parsed into a JSON format. The SelectionOutputParser class, which is used to parse the output, is raising a ValueError because it's unable to convert the output to JSON.

The SelectionOutputParser class expects the output to be in a specific format that can be parsed into a JSON object. If the output is not in the expected format, the parse method of the SelectionOutputParser class will raise a ValueError.

In your case, the output from the CustomLLM class's _call method seems to be a string, which is not in the expected format. The SelectionOutputParser class is trying to parse this string into a JSON object, but it's failing because the string is not a valid JSON string.

To resolve this issue, you should ensure that the output from the CustomLLM class's _call method is in the expected format. The expected format is a JSON serializable object. If the output is a string, you should convert it into a JSON serializable object before returning it from the _call method.

Here's an example of how you can modify the _call method to return a JSON serializable object:

def _call(self, prompt: str, stop: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> str:
    prompt_length = len(prompt)
    response = pipeline(prompt, max_new_tokens=256)[0]["generated_text"]

    # only return newly generated tokens
    response = response[prompt_length:]

    # convert the response string into a JSON serializable object
    response_json = {"response": response}

    return response_json

In this example, the response string is wrapped in a dictionary with a single key-value pair. The key is "response" and the value is the response string. This dictionary is a JSON serializable object, so it can be correctly parsed by the SelectionOutputParser class.

Please try this modification and let me know if it resolves your issue. If not, please provide more information about the output from the CustomLLM class's _call method, and I'll be happy to help further.

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@dosu-bot, thanks for the response. I changed the CustomLLM class implementation and getting a new error of "ValidationError: 1 validation error for Generation text str type expected (type=type_error.str)"

Code changed is this:

class CustomLLM(LLM):

#     def _call(self, prompt: str, stop: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> str:
#         prompt_length = len(prompt)
#         response = pipeline(prompt, max_new_tokens=256)[0]["generated_text"]

#         # only return newly generated tokens
#         return response[prompt_length:]

    def _call(self, prompt: str, stop: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> str:
        prompt_length = len(prompt)
        response = pipeline(prompt, max_new_tokens=256)[0]["generated_text"]

        # only return newly generated tokens
        response = response[prompt_length:]

        # convert the response string into a JSON serializable object
        response_json = {"response": response}

        return response_json

    @property
    def _identifying_params(self) -> Mapping[str, Any]:
        return {"name_of_model": model_name}

    @property
    def _llm_type(self) -> str:
        return "custom"

Output when running query_engine.query("Tell me about the Ian Crocker and his 100 meters records") is as follows:

Setting `pad_token_id` to `eos_token_id`:50256 for open-end generation.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValidationError                           Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[18], line 1
----> 1 query_engine.query(
      2     "Tell me about the Ian Crocker and his 100 meters records"
      3 )

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/indices/query/base.py:23, in BaseQueryEngine.query(self, str_or_query_bundle)
     21 if isinstance(str_or_query_bundle, str):
     22     str_or_query_bundle = QueryBundle(str_or_query_bundle)
---> 23 return self._query(str_or_query_bundle)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/query_engine/router_query_engine.py:146, in RouterQueryEngine._query(self, query_bundle)
    142 def _query(self, query_bundle: QueryBundle) -> RESPONSE_TYPE:
    143     with self.callback_manager.event(
    144         CBEventType.QUERY, payload={EventPayload.QUERY_STR: query_bundle.query_str}
    145     ) as query_event:
--> 146         result = self._selector.select(self._metadatas, query_bundle)
    148         if len(result.inds) > 1:
    149             responses = []

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/selectors/types.py:76, in BaseSelector.select(self, choices, query)
     74 metadatas = [_wrap_choice(choice) for choice in choices]
     75 query_bundle = _wrap_query(query)
---> 76 return self._select(choices=metadatas, query=query_bundle)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/selectors/llm_selectors.py:91, in LLMSingleSelector._select(self, choices, query)
     88 choices_text = _build_choices_text(choices)
     90 # predict
---> 91 prediction = self._llm_predictor.predict(
     92     prompt=self._prompt,
     93     num_choices=len(choices),
     94     context_list=choices_text,
     95     query_str=query.query_str,
     96 )
     98 # parse output
     99 assert self._prompt.output_parser is not None

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/llm_predictor/base.py:181, in LLMPredictor.predict(self, prompt, output_cls, **prompt_args)
    179     formatted_prompt = prompt.format(llm=self._llm, **prompt_args)
    180     formatted_prompt = self._extend_prompt(formatted_prompt)
--> 181     response = self._llm.complete(formatted_prompt)
    182     output = response.text
    184 logger.debug(output)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/llms/base.py:312, in llm_completion_callback.<locals>.wrap.<locals>.wrapped_llm_predict(_self, *args, **kwargs)
    302 with wrapper_logic(_self) as callback_manager:
    303     event_id = callback_manager.on_event_start(
    304         CBEventType.LLM,
    305         payload={
   (...)
    309         },
    310     )
--> 312     f_return_val = f(_self, *args, **kwargs)
    313     if isinstance(f_return_val, Generator):
    314         # intercept the generator and add a callback to the end
    315         def wrapped_gen() -> CompletionResponseGen:

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/llms/langchain.py:61, in LangChainLLM.complete(self, prompt, **kwargs)
     59 @llm_completion_callback()
     60 def complete(self, prompt: str, **kwargs: Any) -> CompletionResponse:
---> 61     output_str = self._llm.predict(prompt, **kwargs)
     62     return CompletionResponse(text=output_str)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/langchain/llms/base.py:907, in BaseLLM.predict(self, text, stop, **kwargs)
    905 else:
    906     _stop = list(stop)
--> 907 return self(text, stop=_stop, **kwargs)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/langchain/llms/base.py:867, in BaseLLM.__call__(self, prompt, stop, callbacks, tags, metadata, **kwargs)
    860 if not isinstance(prompt, str):
    861     raise ValueError(
    862         "Argument `prompt` is expected to be a string. Instead found "
    863         f"{type(prompt)}. If you want to run the LLM on multiple prompts, use "
    864         "`generate` instead."
    865     )
    866 return (
--> 867     self.generate(
    868         [prompt],
    869         stop=stop,
    870         callbacks=callbacks,
    871         tags=tags,
    872         metadata=metadata,
    873         **kwargs,
    874     )
    875     .generations[0][0]
    876     .text
    877 )

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/langchain/llms/base.py:647, in BaseLLM.generate(self, prompts, stop, callbacks, tags, metadata, run_name, **kwargs)
    632         raise ValueError(
    633             "Asked to cache, but no cache found at `langchain.cache`."
    634         )
    635     run_managers = [
    636         callback_manager.on_llm_start(
    637             dumpd(self),
   (...)
    645         )
    646     ]
--> 647     output = self._generate_helper(
    648         prompts, stop, run_managers, bool(new_arg_supported), **kwargs
    649     )
    650     return output
    651 if len(missing_prompts) > 0:

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/langchain/llms/base.py:535, in BaseLLM._generate_helper(self, prompts, stop, run_managers, new_arg_supported, **kwargs)
    533     for run_manager in run_managers:
    534         run_manager.on_llm_error(e)
--> 535     raise e
    536 flattened_outputs = output.flatten()
    537 for manager, flattened_output in zip(run_managers, flattened_outputs):

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/langchain/llms/base.py:522, in BaseLLM._generate_helper(self, prompts, stop, run_managers, new_arg_supported, **kwargs)
    512 def _generate_helper(
    513     self,
    514     prompts: List[str],
   (...)
    518     **kwargs: Any,
    519 ) -> LLMResult:
    520     try:
    521         output = (
--> 522             self._generate(
    523                 prompts,
    524                 stop=stop,
    525                 # TODO: support multiple run managers
    526                 run_manager=run_managers[0] if run_managers else None,
    527                 **kwargs,
    528             )
    529             if new_arg_supported
    530             else self._generate(prompts, stop=stop)
    531         )
    532     except BaseException as e:
    533         for run_manager in run_managers:

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/langchain/llms/base.py:1048, in LLM._generate(self, prompts, stop, run_manager, **kwargs)
   1042 for prompt in prompts:
   1043     text = (
   1044         self._call(prompt, stop=stop, run_manager=run_manager, **kwargs)
   1045         if new_arg_supported
   1046         else self._call(prompt, stop=stop, **kwargs)
   1047     )
-> 1048     generations.append([Generation(text=text)])
   1049 return LLMResult(generations=generations)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/langchain/load/serializable.py:97, in Serializable.__init__(self, **kwargs)
     96 def __init__(self, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
---> 97     super().__init__(**kwargs)
     98     self._lc_kwargs = kwargs

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pydantic/main.py:341, in pydantic.main.BaseModel.__init__()

ValidationError: 1 validation error for Generation
text
  str type expected (type=type_error.str)

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The error you're encountering is due to the return type of the _call method in your CustomLLM class. The _call method is expected to return a string, but in your implementation, it's returning a dictionary (response_json). This is causing the ValidationError you're seeing, as the LlamaIndex framework is expecting a string type response from the _call method.

To resolve this issue, you should modify the _call method to return a string. If you want to keep the response in a JSON format, you can convert the dictionary to a string using json.dumps(). Here's how you can modify your _call method:

import json

class CustomLLM(LLM):

    def _call(self, prompt: str, stop: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> str:
        prompt_length = len(prompt)
        response = pipeline(prompt, max_new_tokens=256)[0]["generated_text"]

        # only return newly generated tokens
        response = response[prompt_length:]

        # convert the response string into a JSON serializable object
        response_json = {"response": response}

        # convert the JSON object to a string
        response_str = json.dumps(response_json)

        return response_str

    @property
    def _identifying_params(self) -> Mapping[str, Any]:
        return {"name_of_model": model_name}

    @property
    def _llm_type(self) -> str:
        return "custom"

This way, the _call method will return a string that represents a JSON object, which should resolve the ValidationError you're encountering.

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Thanks Again, @dosu-bot for the response, some improvement now i am getting a new error after updating the code given by you. The error is "KeyError: 'choice'"

The Error Log when running the code query_engine.query("Tell me about the Ian Crocker and his 100 meters records") is as follows::

Setting `pad_token_id` to `eos_token_id`:50256 for open-end generation.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
KeyError                                  Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[30], line 1
----> 1 query_engine.query(
      2     "Tell me about the Ian Crocker and his 100 meters records"
      3 )

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/indices/query/base.py:23, in BaseQueryEngine.query(self, str_or_query_bundle)
     21 if isinstance(str_or_query_bundle, str):
     22     str_or_query_bundle = QueryBundle(str_or_query_bundle)
---> 23 return self._query(str_or_query_bundle)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/query_engine/router_query_engine.py:146, in RouterQueryEngine._query(self, query_bundle)
    142 def _query(self, query_bundle: QueryBundle) -> RESPONSE_TYPE:
    143     with self.callback_manager.event(
    144         CBEventType.QUERY, payload={EventPayload.QUERY_STR: query_bundle.query_str}
    145     ) as query_event:
--> 146         result = self._selector.select(self._metadatas, query_bundle)
    148         if len(result.inds) > 1:
    149             responses = []

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/selectors/types.py:76, in BaseSelector.select(self, choices, query)
     74 metadatas = [_wrap_choice(choice) for choice in choices]
     75 query_bundle = _wrap_query(query)
---> 76 return self._select(choices=metadatas, query=query_bundle)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/selectors/llm_selectors.py:100, in LLMSingleSelector._select(self, choices, query)
     98 # parse output
     99 assert self._prompt.output_parser is not None
--> 100 parse = self._prompt.output_parser.parse(prediction)
    101 return _structured_output_to_selector_result(parse)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/output_parsers/selection.py:98, in SelectionOutputParser.parse(self, output)
     95     raise ValueError(f"Failed to convert output to JSON: {output!r}")
     97 json_output = self._format_output(json_obj)
---> 98 answers = [Answer.from_dict(json_dict) for json_dict in json_output]
     99 return StructuredOutput(raw_output=output, parsed_output=answers)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/llama_index/output_parsers/selection.py:98, in <listcomp>(.0)
     95     raise ValueError(f"Failed to convert output to JSON: {output!r}")
     97 json_output = self._format_output(json_obj)
---> 98 answers = [Answer.from_dict(json_dict) for json_dict in json_output]
     99 return StructuredOutput(raw_output=output, parsed_output=answers)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dataclasses_json/api.py:70, in DataClassJsonMixin.from_dict(cls, kvs, infer_missing)
     65 @classmethod
     66 def from_dict(cls: Type[A],
     67               kvs: Json,
     68               *,
     69               infer_missing=False) -> A:
---> 70     return _decode_dataclass(cls, kvs, infer_missing)

File ~/.conda/envs/guardrails1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dataclasses_json/core.py:171, in _decode_dataclass(cls, kvs, infer_missing)
    168 if not field.init:
    169     continue
--> 171 field_value = kvs[field.name]
    172 field_type = types[field.name]
    173 if field_value is None:

KeyError: 'choice'

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From the error log you've provided, it seems like the error is not actually a KeyError: 'choice', but rather a ValidationError from Pydantic, which is used for data validation in LlamaIndex. The error message indicates that a string was expected for the 'text' field, but it wasn't provided.

Looking at your custom LLM code, it seems like the issue might be with the format of the response you're returning from the _call method. You're returning a JSON string, but it seems like LlamaIndex might be expecting a Python dictionary instead.

Here's the relevant part of your code:

# convert the JSON object to a string
response_str = json.dumps(response_json)

return response_str

You might want to try returning the response_json dictionary directly, like this:

return response_json

This will return a Python dictionary, which should be compatible with the data validation in LlamaIndex.

If this doesn't solve the issue, it would be helpful if you could provide more information about the data you're loading into the index and the exact query you're running. This would help to further diagnose the issue.

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No. I tried it already. I guess this is some key error receiving from the LLMSelector Api for selecting the choice/tools based on the query. This is the changed class implemented as suggested by you

import json

class CustomLLM(LLM):

    def _call(self, prompt: str, stop: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> str:
        prompt_length = len(prompt)
        response = pipeline(prompt, max_new_tokens=256)[0]["generated_text"]

        # only return newly generated tokens
        response = response[prompt_length:]

        # convert the response string into a JSON serializable object
        response_json = {"response": response}

        # convert the JSON object to a string
        response_str = json.dumps(response_json)

        return response_str

    @property
    def _identifying_params(self) -> Mapping[str, Any]:
        return {"name_of_model": model_name}

    @property
    def _llm_type(self) -> str:
        return "custom"

And i am getting the KeyError: 'choice' when trying to query from the router engine. Please recheck the answer once again.

@Kirushikesh I kind of skipped what the bot was saying haha but to the original error, this is very common with open-source LLMS.

Relying on open-source LLMs to produce structured outputs is flakey at best, and likely requires fine-tuning in my experience.

There's not much we can do if the LLM itself isn't outputting valid JSON or following the expected JSON schema.

I know zeyphr-beta was pretty decent in my experience. Otherwise you need a 30B+ parameter model tbh.

@logan-markewich thanks for the clarifications, just some questions instead of using a router engine if i used "query engine directly from vector store index" than i can able to work with the same model without any errors. I thought Router Engine in LlamaIndex is only compatible with OpenAI models, but i was even tried it with Llama 70b-chat model still i was getting the same error. Just for my own clarification, is it the issue with the model not some compatibility issue of "LLMSelector()/RouterEngine()"?

Yea it's just an issue with the model, it's very hard to get open source models to output structured outputs these days.

We need to look into integrations like outlines to make this better I think

Thanks again @logan-markewich for the response. Really Appreciate.

I also face the same error.

I try to replicate the code from the course "Building Agentic RAG with LlamaIndex" from deeplearning.ai. I used Tiny-LLM from this repo instead of an OpenAI model. After I had done debugging, I added a new function to llama_index.core.output_parsers.utils.py as ChatGPT suggested 😄

def convert_to_json(response):
    summary_start = response.find("- Answer:") + len("- Answer: ")
    summary = response[summary_start:].strip()
    return json.dumps({"summary": summary})

Then, I used that function instead of _marshal_llm_to_json in llama_index.core.output_parsers.selection.py. However, I got the error as you did. KeyError: 'choice'

Is there any way to solve this issue? I really appreciate your reply. Thanks.

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