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ChatPremAI

This example goes over how to use LangChain to interact with different chat models with ChatPremAI

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Installation and setup

We start by installing langchain and premai-sdk. You can type the following command to install: 
pip install premai langchain
Before proceeding further, please make sure that you have made an account on PremAI and already created a project. If not, please refer to the quick start guide to get started with the PremAI platform. Create your first project and grab your API key. 
from langchain_core.messages import HumanMessage, SystemMessage
from langchain_community.chat_models import ChatPremAI

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Setup PremAI client in LangChain

Once we imported our required modules, let’s setup our client. For now let’s assume that our project_id is 8. But make sure you use your project-id, otherwise it will throw error. To use langchain with prem, you do not need to pass any model name or set any parameters with our chat-client. By default it will use the model name and parameters used in the LaunchPad.
Note: If you change the model or any other parameters like temperature or max_tokens while setting the client, it will override existing default configurations, that was used in LaunchPad. 
import os
import getpass

if "PREMAI_API_KEY" not in os.environ:
    os.environ["PREMAI_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("PremAI API Key:")

chat = ChatPremAI(project_id=1234, model_name="gpt-4o")

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Chat Completions

ChatPremAI supports two methods: invoke (which is the same as generate) and stream. The first one will give us a static result. Whereas the second one will stream tokens one by one. Here’s how you can generate chat-like completions. 
human_message = HumanMessage(content="Who are you?")

response = chat.invoke([human_message])
print(response.content)
You can provide system prompt here like this: 
system_message = SystemMessage(content="You are a friendly assistant.")
human_message = HumanMessage(content="Who are you?")

chat.invoke([system_message, human_message])
You can also change generation parameters while calling the model. Here’s how you can do that: 
chat.invoke(
    [system_message, human_message],
    temperature = 0.7, max_tokens = 20, top_p = 0.95
)
If you are going to place system prompt here, then it will override your system prompt that was fixed while deploying the application from the platform.
You can find all the optional parameters here. Any parameters other than these supported parameters will be automatically removed before calling the model.

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Native RAG Support with Prem Repositories

Prem Repositories which allows users to upload documents (.txt, .pdf etc) and connect those repositories to the LLMs. You can think Prem repositories as native RAG, where each repository can be considered as a vector database. You can connect multiple repositories. You can learn more about repositories here. Repositories are also supported in langchain premai. Here is how you can do it. 
query = "Which models are used for dense retrieval"
repository_ids = [1985,]
repositories = dict(
    ids=repository_ids,
    similarity_threshold=0.3,
    limit=3
)
First we start by defining our repository with some repository ids. Make sure that the ids are valid repository ids. You can learn more about how to get the repository id here.
Please note: Similar like model_name when you invoke the argument repositories, then you are potentially overriding the repositories connected in the launchpad.
Now, we connect the repository with our chat object to invoke RAG based generations. 
import json

response = chat.invoke(query, max_tokens=100, repositories=repositories)

print(response.content)
print(json.dumps(response.response_metadata, indent=4))
This is how an output looks like. 
Dense retrieval models typically include:

1. **BERT-based Models**: Such as DPR (Dense Passage Retrieval) which uses BERT for encoding queries and passages.
2. **ColBERT**: A model that combines BERT with late interaction mechanisms.
3. **ANCE (Approximate Nearest Neighbor Negative Contrastive Estimation)**: Uses BERT and focuses on efficient retrieval.
4. **TCT-ColBERT**: A variant of ColBERT that uses a two-tower
{
    "document_chunks": [
        {
            "repository_id": 1985,
            "document_id": 1306,
            "chunk_id": 173899,
            "document_name": "[D] Difference between sparse and dense information\u2026",
            "similarity_score": 0.3209080100059509,
            "content": "with the difference or anywhere\nwhere I can read about it?\n\n\n      17                  9\n\n\n      u/ScotiabankCanada        \u2022  Promoted\n\n\n                       Accelerate your study permit process\n                       with Scotiabank's Student GIC\n                       Program. We're here to help you tur\u2026\n\n\n                       startright.scotiabank.com         Learn More\n\n\n                            Add a Comment\n\n\nSort by:   Best\n\n\n      DinosParkour      \u2022 1y ago\n\n\n     Dense Retrieval (DR) m"
        }
    ]
}
So, this also means that you do not need to make your own RAG pipeline when using the Prem Platform. Prem uses it’s own RAG technology to deliver best in class performance for Retrieval Augmented Generations.
Ideally, you do not need to connect Repository IDs here to get Retrieval Augmented Generations. You can still get the same result if you have connected the repositories in prem platform.

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Streaming

In this section, let’s see how we can stream tokens using langchain and PremAI. Here’s how you do it. 
import sys

for chunk in chat.stream("hello how are you"):
    sys.stdout.write(chunk.content)
    sys.stdout.flush()
Similar to above, if you want to override the system-prompt and the generation parameters, you need to add the following: 
import sys

for chunk in chat.stream(
    "hello how are you",
    system_prompt = "You are an helpful assistant", temperature = 0.7, max_tokens = 20
):
    sys.stdout.write(chunk.content)
    sys.stdout.flush()
This will stream tokens one after the other.
Please note: As of now, RAG with streaming is not supported. However we still support it with our API. You can learn more about that here.

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Prem Templates

Writing Prompt Templates can be super messy. Prompt templates are long, hard to manage, and must be continuously tweaked to improve and keep the same throughout the application. With Prem, writing and managing prompts can be super easy. The Templates tab inside the launchpad helps you write as many prompts you need and use it inside the SDK to make your application running using those prompts. You can read more about Prompt Templates here. To use Prem Templates natively with LangChain, you need to pass an id the HumanMessage. This id should be the name the variable of your prompt template. the content in HumanMessage should be the value of that variable. let’s say for example, if your prompt template was this: 
Say hello to my name and say a feel-good quote
from my age. My name is: {name} and age is {age}
So now your human_messages should look like: 
human_messages = [
    HumanMessage(content="Shawn", id="name"),
    HumanMessage(content="22", id="age")
]
Pass this human_messages to ChatPremAI Client. Please note: Do not forget to pass the additional template_id to invoke generation with Prem Templates. If you are not aware of template_id you can learn more about that in our docs. Here is an example: 
template_id = "78069ce8-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-xxx"
response = chat.invoke([human_message], template_id=template_id)
Prem Templates are also available for Streaming too.

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Prem Embeddings

In this section we cover how we can get access to different embedding models using PremEmbeddings with LangChain. Let’s start by importing our modules and setting our API Key. 
import os
import getpass
from langchain_community.embeddings import PremEmbeddings


if os.environ.get("PREMAI_API_KEY") is None:
    os.environ["PREMAI_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("PremAI API Key:")
We support lots of state of the art embedding models. You can view our list of supported LLMs and embedding models here. For now let’s go for text-embedding-3-large model for this example. . 
model = "text-embedding-3-large"
embedder = PremEmbeddings(project_id=8, model=model)

query = "Hello, this is a test query"
query_result = embedder.embed_query(query)

# Let's print the first five elements of the query embedding vector

print(query_result[:5])
Setting model_name argument in mandatory for PremAIEmbeddings unlike chat.
Finally, let’s embed some sample document 
documents = [
    "This is document1",
    "This is document2",
    "This is document3"
]

doc_result = embedder.embed_documents(documents)

# Similar to the previous result, let's print the first five element
# of the first document vector

print(doc_result[0][:5])

print(f"Dimension of embeddings: {len(query_result)}")
Dimension of embeddings: 3072 
doc_result[:5]
Result: [-0.02129288576543331, 0.0008162345038726926, -0.004556538071483374, 0.02918623760342598, -0.02547479420900345]

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Tool/Function Calling

LangChain PremAI supports tool/function calling. Tool/function calling allows a model to respond to a given prompt by generating output that matches a user-defined schema. NOTE:
The current version of LangChain ChatPremAI do not support function/tool calling with streaming support. Streaming support along with function calling will come soon.

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Passing tools to model

In order to pass tools and let the LLM choose the tool it needs to call, we need to pass a tool schema. A tool schema is the function definition along with proper docstring on what does the function do, what each argument of the function is etc. Below are some simple arithmetic functions with their schema. NOTE:
When defining function/tool schema, do not forget to add information around the function arguments, otherwise it would throw error. 
from langchain_core.tools import tool
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field

# Define the schema for function arguments
class OperationInput(BaseModel):
    a: int = Field(description="First number")
    b: int = Field(description="Second number")


# Now define the function where schema for argument will be OperationInput
@tool("add", args_schema=OperationInput, return_direct=True)
def add(a: int, b: int) -> int:
    """Adds a and b.

    Args:
        a: first int
        b: second int
    """
    return a + b


@tool("multiply", args_schema=OperationInput, return_direct=True)
def multiply(a: int, b: int) -> int:
    """Multiplies a and b.

    Args:
        a: first int
        b: second int
    """
    return a * b

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Binding tool schemas with our LLM

We will now use the bind_tools method to convert our above functions to a “tool” and binding it with the model. This means we are going to pass these tool information every time we invoke the model. 
tools = [add, multiply]
llm_with_tools = chat.bind_tools(tools)
After this, we get the response from the model which is now binded with the tools. 
query = "What is 3 * 12? Also, what is 11 + 49?"

messages = [HumanMessage(query)]
ai_msg = llm_with_tools.invoke(messages)
As we can see, when our chat model is binded with tools, then based on the given prompt, it calls the correct set of the tools and sequentially. 
ai_msg.tool_calls
Output 
[{'name': 'multiply',
  'args': {'a': 3, 'b': 12},
  'id': 'call_A9FL20u12lz6TpOLaiS6rFa8'},
 {'name': 'add',
  'args': {'a': 11, 'b': 49},
  'id': 'call_MPKYGLHbf39csJIyb5BZ9xIk'}]
We append this message shown above to the LLM which acts as a context and makes the LLM aware that what all functions it has called. 
messages.append(ai_msg)
Since tool calling happens into two phases, where:
  1. in our first call, we gathered all the tools that the LLM decided to tool, so that it can get the result as an added context to give more accurate and hallucination free result.
  2. in our second call, we will parse those set of tools decided by LLM and run them (in our case it will be the functions we defined, with the LLM’s extracted arguments) and pass this result to the LLM 
from langchain_core.messages import ToolMessage

for tool_call in ai_msg.tool_calls:
    selected_tool = {"add": add, "multiply": multiply}[tool_call["name"].lower()]
    tool_output = selected_tool.invoke(tool_call["args"])
    messages.append(ToolMessage(tool_output, tool_call_id=tool_call["id"]))
Finally, we call the LLM (binded with the tools) with the function response added in it’s context. 
response = llm_with_tools.invoke(messages)
print(response.content)
Output 
The final answers are:

- 3 * 12 = 36
- 11 + 49 = 60

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Defining tool schemas: Pydantic class Optional

Above we have shown how to define schema using tool decorator, however we can equivalently define the schema using Pydantic. Pydantic is useful when your tool inputs are more complex: 
from langchain_core.output_parsers.openai_tools import PydanticToolsParser

class add(BaseModel):
    """Add two integers together."""

    a: int = Field(..., description="First integer")
    b: int = Field(..., description="Second integer")


class multiply(BaseModel):
    """Multiply two integers together."""

    a: int = Field(..., description="First integer")
    b: int = Field(..., description="Second integer")


tools = [add, multiply]
Now, we can bind them to chat models and directly get the result: 
chain = llm_with_tools | PydanticToolsParser(tools=[multiply, add])
chain.invoke(query)
Output 
[multiply(a=3, b=12), add(a=11, b=49)]
Now, as done above, we parse this and run this functions and call the LLM once again to get the result.