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SQL Question Answering Benchmarking: Chinook
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Loading the data
Setting up a chain
Make a prediction
Make many predictions
Evaluate performance
SQL Question Answering Benchmarking: Chinook#
Here we go over how to benchmark performance on a question answering task over a SQL database.
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("sql-qa-chinook")
Downloading and preparing dataset json/LangChainDatasets--sql-qa-chinook to /Users/harrisonchase/.cache/huggingface/datasets/LangChainDatasets___json/LangChainDatasets--sql-qa-chinook-7528565d2d992b47/0.0.0/0f7e3662623656454fcd2b650f34e886a7db4b9104504885bd462096cc7a9f51...
Dataset json downloaded and prepared to /Users/harrisonchase/.cache/huggingface/datasets/LangChainDatasets___json/LangChainDatasets--sql-qa-chinook-7528565d2d992b47/0.0.0/0f7e3662623656454fcd2b650f34e886a7db4b9104504885bd462096cc7a9f51. Subsequent calls will reuse this data.
dataset[0]
{'question': 'How many employees are there?', 'answer': '8'}
{'question': 'How many employees are there?', 'answer': '8'}
Setting up a chain#
This uses the example Chinook database.
To set it up follow the instructions on https://database.guide/2-sample-databases-sqlite/, placing the .db file in a notebooks folder at the root of this repository.
Note that here we load a simple chain. If you want to experiment with more complex chains, or an agent, just create the chain object in a different way.
from langchain import OpenAI, SQLDatabase, SQLDatabaseChain
db = SQLDatabase.from_uri("sqlite:///../../../notebooks/Chinook.db")
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
Now we can create a SQL database chain.
chain = SQLDatabaseChain.from_llm(llm, db, input_key="question")
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
chain(dataset[0])
{'question': 'How many employees are there?',
 'answer': '8',
 'result': ' There are 8 employees.'}
Make many predictions#
Now we can make predictions. Note that we add a try-except because this chain can sometimes error (if SQL is written incorrectly, etc)
predictions = []
predicted_dataset = []
error_dataset = []
for data in dataset:
    try:
        predictions.append(chain(data))
        predicted_dataset.append(data)
    except:
        error_dataset.append(data)
Evaluate performance#
Now we can evaluate the predictions. We can use a language model to score them programatically
from langchain.evaluation.qa import QAEvalChain
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
eval_chain = QAEvalChain.from_llm(llm)
graded_outputs = eval_chain.evaluate(predicted_dataset, predictions, question_key="question", prediction_key="result")
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': 3, ' INCORRECT': 4})
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]
{'question': 'How many employees are also customers?',
 'answer': 'None',
 'result': ' 59 employees are also customers.',
 'grade': ' INCORRECT'}

Question Answering

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