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Output Parsers
Output Parsers#
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Conceptual Guide
Language models output text. But many times you may want to get more structured information than just text back. This is where output parsers come in.
Output parsers are classes that help structure language model responses. There are two main methods an output parser must implement:
get_format_instructions() -> str: A method which returns a string containing instructions for how the output of a language model should be formatted.
parse(str) -> Any: A method which takes in a string (assumed to be the response from a language model) and parses it into some structure.
And then one optional one:
parse_with_prompt(str) -> Any: A method which takes in a string (assumed to be the response from a language model) and a prompt (assumed to the prompt that generated such a response) and parses it into some structure. The prompt is largely provided in the event the OutputParser wants to retry or fix the output in some way, and needs information from the prompt to do so.
To start, we recommend familiarizing yourself with the Getting Started section
Output Parsers
After that, we provide deep dives on all the different types of output parsers.
CommaSeparatedListOutputParser
OutputFixingParser
PydanticOutputParser
RetryOutputParser
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Prompt Templates
Prompt Templates#
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Conceptual Guide
Language models take text as input - that text is commonly referred to as a prompt.
Typically this is not simply a hardcoded string but rather a combination of a template, some examples, and user input.
LangChain provides several classes and functions to make constructing and working with prompts easy.
The following sections of documentation are provided:
Getting Started: An overview of all the functionality LangChain provides for working with and constructing prompts.
How-To Guides: A collection of how-to guides. These highlight how to accomplish various objectives with our prompt class.
Reference: API reference documentation for all prompt classes.
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Example Selectors
Example Selectors#
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Conceptual Guide
If you have a large number of examples, you may need to select which ones to include in the prompt. The ExampleSelector is the class responsible for doing so.
The base interface is defined as below:
class BaseExampleSelector(ABC):
    """Interface for selecting examples to include in prompts."""
    @abstractmethod
    def select_examples(self, input_variables: Dict[str, str]) -> List[dict]:
        """Select which examples to use based on the inputs."""
The only method it needs to expose is a select_examples method. This takes in the input variables and then returns a list of examples. It is up to each specific implementation as to how those examples are selected. Let’s take a look at some below.
See below for a list of example selectors.
How to create a custom example selector
LengthBased ExampleSelector
Maximal Marginal Relevance ExampleSelector
NGram Overlap ExampleSelector
Similarity ExampleSelector
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k=2
)
mmr_prompt = FewShotPromptTemplate(
    # We provide an ExampleSelector instead of examples.
    example_selector=example_selector,
    example_prompt=example_prompt,
    prefix="Give the antonym of every input",
    suffix="Input: {adjective}\nOutput:", 
    input_variables=["adjective"],
)
# Input is a feeling, so should select the happy/sad example as the first one
print(mmr_prompt.format(adjective="worried"))
Give the antonym of every input
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: windy
Output: calm
Input: worried
Output:
# Let's compare this to what we would just get if we went solely off of similarity
similar_prompt = FewShotPromptTemplate(
    # We provide an ExampleSelector instead of examples.
    example_selector=example_selector,
    example_prompt=example_prompt,
    prefix="Give the antonym of every input",
    suffix="Input: {adjective}\nOutput:", 
    input_variables=["adjective"],
)
similar_prompt.example_selector.k = 2
print(similar_prompt.format(adjective="worried"))
Give the antonym of every input
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: windy
Output: calm
Input: worried
Output:
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# Add new example to the set of examples
example_selector.add_example({"foo": "4"})
example_selector.examples
# -> [{'foo': '1'}, {'foo': '2'}, {'foo': '3'}, {'foo': '4'}]
# Select examples
example_selector.select_examples({"foo": "foo"})
# -> array([{'foo': '1'}, {'foo': '4'}], dtype=object)
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example_prompt=example_prompt,
    prefix="Give the antonym of every input",
    suffix="Input: {adjective}\nOutput:", 
    input_variables=["adjective"],
)
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# Input is a feeling, so should select the happy/sad example
print(similar_prompt.format(adjective="worried"))
Give the antonym of every input
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: worried
Output:
# Input is a measurement, so should select the tall/short example
print(similar_prompt.format(adjective="fat"))
Give the antonym of every input
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: fat
Output:
# You can add new examples to the SemanticSimilarityExampleSelector as well
similar_prompt.example_selector.add_example({"input": "enthusiastic", "output": "apathetic"})
print(similar_prompt.format(adjective="joyful"))
Give the antonym of every input
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: joyful
Output:
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Input: Spot plays fetch.
Output: Spot juega a buscar.
Input: Spot can play fetch.
Output:
# Setting threshold greater than 1.0
example_selector.threshold=1.0+1e-9
print(dynamic_prompt.format(sentence="Spot can play fetch."))
Give the Spanish translation of every input
Input: Spot can play fetch.
Output:
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To generate a prompt with few shot examples, you can use the FewShotPromptTemplate. This class takes in a PromptTemplate and a list of few shot examples. It then formats the prompt template with the few shot examples.
In this example, we’ll create a prompt to generate word antonyms.
from langchain import PromptTemplate, FewShotPromptTemplate
# First, create the list of few shot examples.
examples = [
    {"word": "happy", "antonym": "sad"},
    {"word": "tall", "antonym": "short"},
]
# Next, we specify the template to format the examples we have provided.
# We use the `PromptTemplate` class for this.
example_formatter_template = """
Word: {word}
Antonym: {antonym}\n
"""
example_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["word", "antonym"],
    template=example_formatter_template,
)
# Finally, we create the `FewShotPromptTemplate` object.
few_shot_prompt = FewShotPromptTemplate(
    # These are the examples we want to insert into the prompt.
    examples=examples,
    # This is how we want to format the examples when we insert them into the prompt.
    example_prompt=example_prompt,
    # The prefix is some text that goes before the examples in the prompt.
    # Usually, this consists of intructions.
    prefix="Give the antonym of every input",
    # The suffix is some text that goes after the examples in the prompt.
    # Usually, this is where the user input will go
    suffix="Word: {input}\nAntonym:",
    # The input variables are the variables that the overall prompt expects.
    input_variables=["input"],
input_variables=["input"],
    # The example_separator is the string we will use to join the prefix, examples, and suffix together with.
    example_separator="\n\n",
)
# We can now generate a prompt using the `format` method.
print(few_shot_prompt.format(input="big"))
# -> Give the antonym of every input
# -> 
# -> Word: happy
# -> Antonym: sad
# ->
# -> Word: tall
# -> Antonym: short
# ->
# -> Word: big
# -> Antonym:
Select examples for a prompt template#
If you have a large number of examples, you can use the ExampleSelector to select a subset of examples that will be most informative for the Language Model. This will help you generate a prompt that is more likely to generate a good response.
Below, we’ll use the LengthBasedExampleSelector, which selects examples based on the length of the input. This is useful when you are worried about constructing a prompt that will go over the length of the context window. For longer inputs, it will select fewer examples to include, while for shorter inputs it will select more.
We’ll continue with the example from the previous section, but this time we’ll use the LengthBasedExampleSelector to select the examples.
from langchain.prompts.example_selector import LengthBasedExampleSelector
# These are a lot of examples of a pretend task of creating antonyms.
examples = [
    {"word": "happy", "antonym": "sad"},
    {"word": "tall", "antonym": "short"},
    {"word": "energetic", "antonym": "lethargic"},
    {"word": "sunny", "antonym": "gloomy"},
    {"word": "windy", "antonym": "calm"},
]
{"word": "windy", "antonym": "calm"},
]
# We'll use the `LengthBasedExampleSelector` to select the examples.
example_selector = LengthBasedExampleSelector(
    # These are the examples is has available to choose from.
    examples=examples, 
    # This is the PromptTemplate being used to format the examples.
    example_prompt=example_prompt, 
    # This is the maximum length that the formatted examples should be.
    # Length is measured by the get_text_length function below.
    max_length=25,
)
# We can now use the `example_selector` to create a `FewShotPromptTemplate`.
dynamic_prompt = FewShotPromptTemplate(
    # We provide an ExampleSelector instead of examples.
    example_selector=example_selector,
    example_prompt=example_prompt,
    prefix="Give the antonym of every input",
    suffix="Word: {input}\nAntonym:",
    input_variables=["input"],
    example_separator="\n\n",
)
# We can now generate a prompt using the `format` method.
print(dynamic_prompt.format(input="big"))
# -> Give the antonym of every input
# ->
# -> Word: happy
# -> Antonym: sad
# ->
# -> Word: tall
# -> Antonym: short
# ->
# -> Word: energetic
# -> Antonym: lethargic
# ->
# -> Word: sunny
# -> Antonym: gloomy
# ->
# -> Word: windy
# -> Antonym: calm
# ->
# -> Word: big
# -> Antonym:
In contrast, if we provide a very long input, the LengthBasedExampleSelector will select fewer examples to include in the prompt.
long_string = "big and huge and massive and large and gigantic and tall and much much much much much bigger than everything else"
print(dynamic_prompt.format(input=long_string))
# -> Give the antonym of every input
# -> Word: happy
# -> Antonym: sad
# ->
# -> Word: big and huge and massive and large and gigantic and tall and much much much much much bigger than everything else
# -> Antonym:
LangChain comes with a few example selectors that you can use. For more details on how to use them, see Example Selectors.
You can create custom example selectors that select examples based on any criteria you want. For more details on how to do this, see Creating a custom example selector.
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What is a prompt template?
Create a prompt template
Template formats
Validate template
Serialize prompt template
Pass few shot examples to a prompt template
Select examples for a prompt template
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How-To Guides
How-To Guides#
If you’re new to the library, you may want to start with the Quickstart.
The user guide here shows more advanced workflows and how to use the library in different ways.
Connecting to a Feature Store
How to create a custom prompt template
How to create a prompt template that uses few shot examples
How to work with partial Prompt Templates
How to serialize prompts
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suffix="Question: {input}", 
    input_variables=["input"]
)
print(prompt.format(input="Who was the father of Mary Ball Washington?"))
Question: Who was the maternal grandfather of George Washington?
Are follow up questions needed here: Yes.
Follow up: Who was the mother of George Washington?
Intermediate answer: The mother of George Washington was Mary Ball Washington.
Follow up: Who was the father of Mary Ball Washington?
Intermediate answer: The father of Mary Ball Washington was Joseph Ball.
So the final answer is: Joseph Ball
Question: Who was the father of Mary Ball Washington?
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Use Case
Using an example set
Create the example set
Create a formatter for the few shot examples
Feed examples and formatter to FewShotPromptTemplate
Using an example selector
Feed examples into ExampleSelector
Feed example selector into FewShotPromptTemplate
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prompt = fn_explainer.format(function_name=get_source_code)
print(prompt)
        Given the function name and source code, generate an English language explanation of the function.
        Function Name: get_source_code
        Source Code:
        def get_source_code(function_name):
    # Get the source code of the function
    return inspect.getsource(function_name)
        Explanation:
        
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How to serialize prompts
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PromptTemplate
Loading from YAML
Loading from JSON
Loading Template from a File
FewShotPromptTemplate
Examples
Loading from YAML
Loading from JSON
Examples in the Config
Example Prompt from a File
How to serialize prompts#
It is often preferrable to store prompts not as python code but as files. This can make it easy to share, store, and version prompts. This notebook covers how to do that in LangChain, walking through all the different types of prompts and the different serialization options.
At a high level, the following design principles are applied to serialization:
Both JSON and YAML are supported. We want to support serialization methods that are human readable on disk, and YAML and JSON are two of the most popular methods for that. Note that this rule applies to prompts. For other assets, like Examples, different serialization methods may be supported.
We support specifying everything in one file, or storing different components (templates, examples, etc) in different files and referencing them. For some cases, storing everything in file makes the most sense, but for others it is preferrable to split up some of the assets (long templates, large examples, reusable components). LangChain supports both.
There is also a single entry point to load prompts from disk, making it easy to load any type of prompt.
# All prompts are loaded through the `load_prompt` function.
from langchain.prompts import load_prompt
PromptTemplate#
This section covers examples for loading a PromptTemplate.
Loading from YAML#
This shows an example of loading a PromptTemplate from YAML.
!cat simple_prompt.yaml
_type: prompt
input_variables:
    ["adjective", "content"]
template: 
    Tell me a {adjective} joke about {content}.
prompt = load_prompt("simple_prompt.yaml")
Output: short
Input: funny
Output:
Example Prompt from a File#
This shows an example of loading the PromptTemplate that is used to format the examples from a separate file. Note that the key changes from example_prompt to example_prompt_path.
!cat example_prompt.json
{
    "_type": "prompt",
    "input_variables": ["input", "output"],
    "template": "Input: {input}\nOutput: {output}" 
}
!cat few_shot_prompt_example_prompt.json 
{
    "_type": "few_shot",
    "input_variables": ["adjective"],
    "prefix": "Write antonyms for the following words.",
    "example_prompt_path": "example_prompt.json",
    "examples": "examples.json",
    "suffix": "Input: {adjective}\nOutput:"
}   
prompt = load_prompt("few_shot_prompt_example_prompt.json")
print(prompt.format(adjective="funny"))
Write antonyms for the following words.
Input: happy
Output: sad
Input: tall
Output: short
Input: funny
Output:
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punchline: str = Field(description="answer to resolve the joke")
    
    # You can add custom validation logic easily with Pydantic.
    @validator('setup')
    def question_ends_with_question_mark(cls, field):
        if field[-1] != '?':
            raise ValueError("Badly formed question!")
        return field
# Set up a parser + inject instructions into the prompt template.
parser = PydanticOutputParser(pydantic_object=Joke)
prompt = PromptTemplate(
    template="Answer the user query.\n{format_instructions}\n{query}\n",
    input_variables=["query"],
    partial_variables={"format_instructions": parser.get_format_instructions()}
)
# And a query intented to prompt a language model to populate the data structure.
joke_query = "Tell me a joke."
_input = prompt.format_prompt(query=joke_query)
output = model(_input.to_string())
parser.parse(output)
Joke(setup='Why did the chicken cross the road?', punchline='To get to the other side!')
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],
    input_variables=["question"],
    partial_variables={"format_instructions": format_instructions}
)
_input = prompt.format_prompt(question="what's the capital of france")
output = chat_model(_input.to_messages())
output_parser.parse(output.content)
{'answer': 'Paris', 'source': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris'}
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prompt = PromptTemplate(
    template="Answer the user query.\n{format_instructions}\n{query}\n",
    input_variables=["query"],
    partial_variables={"format_instructions": parser.get_format_instructions()}
)
_input = prompt.format_prompt(query=joke_query)
output = model(_input.to_string())
parser.parse(output)
Joke(setup='Why did the chicken cross the road?', punchline='To get to the other side!')
# Here's another example, but with a compound typed field.
class Actor(BaseModel):
    name: str = Field(description="name of an actor")
    film_names: List[str] = Field(description="list of names of films they starred in")
        
actor_query = "Generate the filmography for a random actor."
parser = PydanticOutputParser(pydantic_object=Actor)
prompt = PromptTemplate(
    template="Answer the user query.\n{format_instructions}\n{query}\n",
    input_variables=["query"],
    partial_variables={"format_instructions": parser.get_format_instructions()}
)
_input = prompt.format_prompt(query=actor_query)
output = model(_input.to_string())
parser.parse(output)
Actor(name='Tom Hanks', film_names=['Forrest Gump', 'Saving Private Ryan', 'The Green Mile', 'Cast Away', 'Toy Story'])
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fix_parser.parse(bad_response)
Action(action='search', action_input='')
Instead, we can use the RetryOutputParser, which passes in the prompt (as well as the original output) to try again to get a better response.
from langchain.output_parsers import RetryWithErrorOutputParser
retry_parser = RetryWithErrorOutputParser.from_llm(parser=parser, llm=OpenAI(temperature=0))
retry_parser.parse_with_prompt(bad_response, prompt_value)
Action(action='search', action_input='who is leo di caprios gf?')
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CommaSeparatedListOutputParser#
Here’s another parser strictly less powerful than Pydantic/JSON parsing.
from langchain.output_parsers import CommaSeparatedListOutputParser
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate, ChatPromptTemplate, HumanMessagePromptTemplate
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
output_parser = CommaSeparatedListOutputParser()
format_instructions = output_parser.get_format_instructions()
prompt = PromptTemplate(
    template="List five {subject}.\n{format_instructions}",
    input_variables=["subject"],
    partial_variables={"format_instructions": format_instructions}
)
model = OpenAI(temperature=0)
_input = prompt.format(subject="ice cream flavors")
output = model(_input)
output_parser.parse(output)
['Vanilla',
 'Chocolate',
 'Strawberry',
 'Mint Chocolate Chip',
 'Cookies and Cream']
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Cell In[6], line 1
----> 1 parser.parse(misformatted)
File ~/workplace/langchain/langchain/output_parsers/pydantic.py:29, in PydanticOutputParser.parse(self, text)
     27 name = self.pydantic_object.__name__
     28 msg = f"Failed to parse {name} from completion {text}. Got: {e}"
---> 29 raise OutputParserException(msg)
OutputParserException: Failed to parse Actor from completion {'name': 'Tom Hanks', 'film_names': ['Forrest Gump']}. Got: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 1 column 2 (char 1)
Now we can construct and use a OutputFixingParser. This output parser takes as an argument another output parser but also an LLM with which to try to correct any formatting mistakes.
from langchain.output_parsers import OutputFixingParser
new_parser = OutputFixingParser.from_llm(parser=parser, llm=ChatOpenAI())
new_parser.parse(misformatted)
Actor(name='Tom Hanks', film_names=['Forrest Gump'])
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