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Agent VectorDB Question Answering Benchmarking
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Loading the data
Setting up a chain
Make a prediction
Make many predictions
Evaluate performance
Agent VectorDB Question Answering Benchmarking#
Here we go over how to benchmark performance on a question answering task using an agent to route between multiple vectordatabases.
It is highly reccomended that you do any evaluation/benchmarking with tracing enabled. See here for an explanation of what tracing is and how to set it up.
# Comment this out if you are NOT using tracing
import os
os.environ["LANGCHAIN_HANDLER"] = "langchain"
Loading the data#
First, let’s load the data.
from langchain.evaluation.loading import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("agent-vectordb-qa-sota-pg")
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dataset[0]
{'question': 'What is the purpose of the NATO Alliance?',
 'answer': 'The purpose of the NATO Alliance is to secure peace and stability in Europe after World War 2.',
 'steps': [{'tool': 'State of Union QA System', 'tool_input': None},
  {'tool': None, 'tool_input': 'What is the purpose of the NATO Alliance?'}]}
dataset[-1]
dataset[-1]
{'question': 'What is the purpose of YC?',
 'answer': 'The purpose of YC is to cause startups to be founded that would not otherwise have existed.',
 'steps': [{'tool': 'Paul Graham QA System', 'tool_input': None},
  {'tool': None, 'tool_input': 'What is the purpose of YC?'}]}
Setting up a chain#
Now we need to create some pipelines for doing question answering. Step one in that is creating indexes over the data in question.
from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader
loader = TextLoader("../../modules/state_of_the_union.txt")
from langchain.indexes import VectorstoreIndexCreator
vectorstore_sota = VectorstoreIndexCreator(vectorstore_kwargs={"collection_name":"sota"}).from_loaders([loader]).vectorstore
Using embedded DuckDB without persistence: data will be transient
Now we can create a question answering chain.
from langchain.chains import RetrievalQA
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
chain_sota = RetrievalQA.from_chain_type(llm=OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff", retriever=vectorstore_sota.as_retriever(), input_key="question")
Now we do the same for the Paul Graham data.
loader = TextLoader("../../modules/paul_graham_essay.txt")
vectorstore_pg = VectorstoreIndexCreator(vectorstore_kwargs={"collection_name":"paul_graham"}).from_loaders([loader]).vectorstore
Using embedded DuckDB without persistence: data will be transient
chain_pg = RetrievalQA.from_chain_type(llm=OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff", retriever=vectorstore_pg.as_retriever(), input_key="question")
We can now set up an agent to route between them.
from langchain.agents import initialize_agent, Tool
from langchain.agents import initialize_agent, Tool
from langchain.agents import AgentType
tools = [
    Tool(
        name = "State of Union QA System",
        func=chain_sota.run,
        description="useful for when you need to answer questions about the most recent state of the union address. Input should be a fully formed question."
    ),
    Tool(
        name = "Paul Graham System",
        func=chain_pg.run,
        description="useful for when you need to answer questions about Paul Graham. Input should be a fully formed question."
    ),
]
agent = initialize_agent(tools, OpenAI(temperature=0), agent=AgentType.ZERO_SHOT_REACT_DESCRIPTION, max_iterations=4)
Make a prediction#
First, we can make predictions one datapoint at a time. Doing it at this level of granularity allows use to explore the outputs in detail, and also is a lot cheaper than running over multiple datapoints
agent.run(dataset[0]['question'])
'The purpose of the NATO Alliance is to secure peace and stability in Europe after World War 2.'
Make many predictions#
Now we can make predictions
predictions = []
predicted_dataset = []
error_dataset = []
for data in dataset:
    new_data = {"input": data["question"], "answer": data["answer"]}
    try:
        predictions.append(agent(new_data))
        predicted_dataset.append(new_data)
    except Exception:
        error_dataset.append(new_data)
Evaluate performance#
Now we can evaluate the predictions. The first thing we can do is look at them by eye.
predictions[0]
{'input': 'What is the purpose of the NATO Alliance?',
 'answer': 'The purpose of the NATO Alliance is to secure peace and stability in Europe after World War 2.',
'output': 'The purpose of the NATO Alliance is to secure peace and stability in Europe after World War 2.'}
Next, we can use a language model to score them programatically
from langchain.evaluation.qa import QAEvalChain
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
eval_chain = QAEvalChain.from_llm(llm)
graded_outputs = eval_chain.evaluate(predicted_dataset, predictions, question_key="input", prediction_key="output")
We can add in the graded output to the predictions dict and then get a count of the grades.
for i, prediction in enumerate(predictions):
    prediction['grade'] = graded_outputs[i]['text']
from collections import Counter
Counter([pred['grade'] for pred in predictions])
Counter({' CORRECT': 28, ' INCORRECT': 5})
We can also filter the datapoints to the incorrect examples and look at them.
incorrect = [pred for pred in predictions if pred['grade'] == " INCORRECT"]
incorrect[0]
{'input': 'What are the four common sense steps that the author suggests to move forward safely?',
 'answer': 'The four common sense steps suggested by the author to move forward safely are: stay protected with vaccines and treatments, prepare for new variants, end the shutdown of schools and businesses, and stay vigilant.',
 'output': 'The four common sense steps suggested in the most recent State of the Union address are: cutting the cost of prescription drugs, providing a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, revising laws so businesses have the workers they need and families don’t wait decades to reunite, and protecting access to health care and preserving a woman’s right to choose.',
 'grade': ' INCORRECT'}

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Benchmarking Template
 Contents
  
Loading the data
Setting up a chain
Make a prediction
Benchmarking Template
 Contents
  
Loading the data
Setting up a chain
Make a prediction
Make many predictions
Evaluate performance
By Harrison Chase