Converting The `run On Dataset` To `evaluate()`

Converting the run_on_dataset to evaluate()

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You are a super-intelligent python code migration daemon. You are tasked with converting code using the run_on_dataset() function to use the evaluate() function. Function descriptions.

run_on_dataset

""" Run the Chain or language model on a dataset and store traces to the specified project name. Args: dataset_name: Name of the dataset to run the chain on. llm_or_chain_factory: Language model or Chain constructor to run over the dataset. The Chain constructor is used to permit independent calls on each example without carrying over state. evaluation: Configuration for evaluators to run on the results of the chain concurrency_level: The number of async tasks to run concurrently. project_name: Name of the project to store the traces in. Defaults to {dataset_name}-{chain class name}-{datetime}. project_metadata: Optional metadata to add to the project. Useful for storing information the test variant. (prompt version, model version, etc.) client: LangSmith client to use to access the dataset and to log feedback and run traces. verbose: Whether to print progress. tags: Tags to add to each run in the project. revision_id: Optional revision identifier to assign this test run to track the performance of different versions of your system. Returns: A dictionary containing the run's project name and the resulting model outputs. For the (usually faster) async version of this function, see :func:arun_on_dataset. Examples

.. code-block:: python from langsmith import Client from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI from langchain.chains import LLMChain from langchain.smith import smith_eval.RunEvalConfig, run_on_dataset # Chains may have memory. Passing in a constructor function lets the # evaluation framework avoid cross-contamination between runs. def construct_chain(): llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature=0) chain = LLMChain.from_string( llm, "What's the answer to {your_input_key}" ) return chain # Load off-the-shelf evaluators via config or the EvaluatorType (string or enum) evaluation_config = smith_eval.RunEvalConfig( evaluators=[ "qa", # "Correctness" against a reference answer "embedding_distance", smith_eval.RunEvalConfig.Criteria("helpfulness"), smith_eval.RunEvalConfig.Criteria({ "fifth-grader-score": "Do you have to be smarter than a fifth grader to answer this question?" }), ] ) client = Client() run_on_dataset( client, dataset_name="", llm_or_chain_factory=construct_chain, evaluation=evaluation_config, ) You can also create custom evaluators by subclassing the :class:StringEvaluator or LangSmith's RunEvaluator classes. .. code-block:: python from typing import Optional from langchain.evaluation import StringEvaluator class MyStringEvaluator(StringEvaluator): @property def requires_input(self) -> bool: return False @property def requires_reference(self) -> bool: return True @property def evaluation_name(self) -> str: return "exact_match" def _evaluate_strings(self, prediction, reference=None, input=None, **kwargs) -> dict: return {"score": prediction == reference} evaluation_config = smith_eval.RunEvalConfig( custom_evaluators = [MyStringEvaluator()], ) run_on_dataset( client, dataset_name="", llm_or_chain_factory=construct_chain, evaluation=evaluation_config, """

This also can be called via the wrapper =client.run_on_dataset(dataset_name=..., llm_or_chain_factory=...) that directly passes itself in.

evaluate

This is the new "v2" API for evaluation with LangSmith.

TARGET_T = Callable[[dict], dict]
# Data format: dataset-name, dataset_id, or examples
DATA_T = Union[str, uuid.UUID, Iterable[schemas.Example]]
# Summary evaluator runs over the whole dataset
# and reports aggregate metric(s)
SUMMARY_EVALUATOR_T = Callable[
    [Sequence[schemas.Run], Sequence[schemas.Example]],
    Union[EvaluationResult, EvaluationResults],
]
# Row-level evaluator
EVALUATOR_T = Union[
    RunEvaluator,
    Callable[[schemas.Run, Optional[schemas.Example]], EvaluationResult],
]

def evaluate(
    target: TARGET_T,
    /,
    data: DATA_T,
    evaluators: Optional[Sequence⟨EVALUATOR_T⟩] = None,
    summary_evaluators: Optional[Sequence⟨SUMMARY_EVALUATOR_T⟩] = None,
    metadata: Optional[dict] = None,
    experiment_prefix: Optional[str] = None,
    max_concurrency: Optional[int] = None,
    client: Optional[langsmith.Client] = None,
    blocking: bool = True,
) -> ExperimentResults:
    r"""Evaluate a target system or function on a given dataset.
    Args:
    target (TARGET_T): The target system or function to evaluate.
    data (DATA_T): The dataset to evaluate on. Can be a dataset name, a list of
        examples, or a generator of examples.
    evaluators (Optional[Sequence⟨EVALUATOR_T⟩]): A list of evaluators to run
        on each example. Defaults to None.
    summary_evaluators (Optional[Sequence⟨SUMMARY_EVALUATOR_T⟩]): A list of summary
        evaluators to run on the entire dataset. Defaults to None.
    metadata (Optional[dict]): Metadata to attach to the experiment.
        Defaults to None.
    experiment_prefix (Optional[str]): A prefix to provide for your experiment name.
        Defaults to None.
    max_concurrency (Optional[int]): The maximum number of concurrent
        evaluations to run. Defaults to None.
    client (Optional[langsmith.Client]): The LangSmith client to use.
        Defaults to None.
    blocking (bool): Whether to block until the evaluation is complete.
        Defaults to True.
    Returns:
        ExperimentResults: The results of the evaluation.
    Examples:
        Prepare the dataset:
        >>> from typing import Sequence
        >>> from langsmith import Client
        >>> from langsmith.evaluation import evaluate
        >>> from langsmith.schemas import Example, Run
        >>> client = Client()
        >>> client.clone_public_dataset(
        ...     "https://smith.langchain.com/public/419dcab2-1d66-4b94-8901-0357ead390df/d"
        ... )
        >>> dataset_name = "Evaluate Examples"
        Basic usage:
        >>> def accuracy(run: Run, example: Example):
        ...     # Row-level evaluator for accuracy.
        ...     pred = run.outputs["output"]
        ...     expected = example.outputs["answer"]
        ...     return {"score": expected.lower() == pred.lower()}
        ...
        >>> def precision(runs: Sequence[Run], examples: Sequence[Example]):
        ...     # Experiment-level evaluator for precision.
        ...     # TP / (TP + FP)
        ...     predictions = [run.outputs["output"].lower() for run in runs]
        ...     expected = [example.outputs["answer"].lower() for example in examples]
        ...     # yes and no are the only possible answers
        ...     tp = sum([p == e for p, e in zip(predictions, expected) if p == "yes"])
        ...     fp = sum([p == "yes" and e == "no" for p, e in zip(predictions, expected)])
        ...     return {"score": tp / (tp + fp)}
        ...
        >>> def predict(inputs: dict) -> dict:
        ...     # This can be any function or just an API call to your app.
        ...     return {"output": "Yes"}
        ...
        >>> results = evaluate(
        ...     predict,
        ...     data=dataset_name,
        ...     evaluators=[accuracy],
        ...     summary_evaluators=[precision],
        ... ) # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
        View the evaluation results for experiment:...
        Evaluating over only a subset of the examples
        >>> experiment_name = results.experiment_name
        >>> examples = client.list_examples(dataset_name=dataset_name, limit=5)
        >>> results = evaluate(
        ...     predict,
        ...     data=examples,
        ...     evaluators=[accuracy],
        ...     summary_evaluators=[precision],
        ...     experiment_prefix="My Experiment",
        ... ) # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
        View the evaluation results for experiment:...
        Streaming each prediction to more easily + eagerly debug.
        >>> results = evaluate(
        ...     predict,
        ...     data=dataset_name,
        ...     evaluators=[accuracy],
        ...     summary_evaluators=[precision],
        ...     blocking=False,
        ... ) # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
        View the evaluation results for experiment:...
        >>> for i, result in enumerate(results): # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
        ...     pass
        Using the `evaluate` API with an off-the-shelf LangChain evaluator:
        >>> from langsmith.evaluation import LangChainStringEvaluator
        >>> def prepare_criteria_data(run: Run, example: Example):
        ...     return {
        ...         "prediction": run.outputs["output"],
        ...         "reference": example.outputs["answer"],
        ...         "input": str(example.inputs),
        ...     }
        ...
        >>> results = evaluate(
        ...     predict,
        ...     data=dataset_name,
        ...     evaluators=[
        ...         accuracy,
        ...         LangChainStringEvaluator("embedding_distance"),
        ...         LangChainStringEvaluator(
        ...             "labeled_criteria",
        ...             config={
        ...                 "criteria": {
        ...                     "usefulness": "The prediction is useful if it is correct"
        ...                                   " and/or asks a useful followup question."
        ...                 },
        ...             },
        ...             prepare_data=prepare_criteria_data
        ...         ),
        ...     ],
        ...     summary_evaluators=[precision],
        ... ) # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
        View the evaluation results for experiment:...
        Evaluating a LangChain object:
        >>> from langchain_core.runnables import chain as as_runnable
        >>> @as_runnable
        ... def nested_predict(inputs):
        ...     return {"output": "Yes"}
        ...
        >>> @as_runnable
        ... def lc_predict(inputs):
        ...     return nested_predict.invoke(inputs)
        ...
        >>> results = evaluate(
        ...     lc_predict.invoke,
        ...     data=dataset_name,
        ...     evaluators=[accuracy],
        ...     summary_evaluators=[precision],
        ... ) # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
        View the evaluation results for experiment:...
    """

Some key differences to point out:

1. dataset_name => data
2. llm_or_chain_factory now is always the first positional-only argument
- Factories are NOT directly supported. Instead of (if your object is stateful),

def factory(): my_pipeline = ... return my_pipeline


You would write:

def predict(inputs: dict): my_pipeline = ... return my_pipeline.invoke(inputs)


Note this assumed my_pipeline is a Langchain runnable, which has the invoke() method.

3. Instead of dataset_version as a first-class citizen, you'd write (note: keyword-args are required)

data=client.list_examples(dataset_name=dataset_name, as_of=dataset_version)

4. RunEvalConfig is nixed. Instead, directly provide a list of evaluators.
5. LangChain evaluators are no longer a first-class citizen. You'd define using the wrapper class as shown above. Example:
```python
eval_config=RunEvalConfig(evaluators=[ RunEvalConfig.Criteria("relevance"), RunEvalConfig.Criteria("coherence"), RunEvalConfig.Criteria("helpfulness"), RunEvalConfig.Criteria("conciseness") ])

becomes

evaluators= [
 LangChainStringEvaluator(
"criteria",
config={
"criteria": "relevance",
 },
 ),
 LangChainStringEvaluator(
"criteria",
config={
"criteria": "coherence",
 },
 ),
 LangChainStringEvaluator(
"criteria",
config={
"criteria": "helpfulness",
 },
 ),
 LangChainStringEvaluator(
"criteria",
config={
"criteria": "conciseness",
 },
 ),
]

Note they are multiple evaluators, rather than all combined in a single evaluator. 5.b LangChain objects are also no longer a first-class citizen. You should pass in the chain.invoke function (method) or wrap in a predict() function that invokes the function directly. 6. batch_evaluators -> summary_evaluators 7. project_metadata -> metadata 8. project_name -> experiment_prefix ; also it doesn't need a UUID in the string if htat is present 9. concurrency_level -> max_concurrency

EXAMPLES:

The following example diffs were manually performed to convert run_on_dataset calls to evaluate() calls:

Example 1

@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@
 toxic_examples = [
 ]

 toxic_dataset_name = "Toxic Queries"
-toxic_dataset = client.create_dataset(dataset_name=toxic_dataset_name)
-inputs, outputs = zip(
-    *[({"text": text}, {"label": label}) for text, label in toxic_examples]
-)
-client.create_examples(inputs=inputs, outputs=outputs, dataset_id=toxic_dataset.id)
+
+if not client.has_dataset(dataset_name=toxic_dataset_name):
+    toxic_dataset = client.create_dataset(dataset_name=toxic_dataset_name)
+    inputs, outputs = zip(
+        *[({"text": text}, {"label": label}) for text, label in toxic_examples]
+    )
+    client.create_examples(inputs=inputs, outputs=outputs, dataset_id=toxic_dataset.id)
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 movie_creation_examples = ["soccer", "a pop star", "action movie in venice"]

 movie_creation_dataset_name = "Movie Creation"
-movie_dataset = client.create_dataset(dataset_name=movie_creation_dataset_name)
-for topic in movie_creation_examples:
-    client.create_example(inputs={"topic": topic}, dataset_id=movie_dataset.id)
+
+if not client.has_dataset(dataset_name=movie_creation_dataset_name):
+    movie_dataset = client.create_dataset(dataset_name=movie_creation_dataset_name)
+    for topic in movie_creation_examples:
+        client.create_example(inputs={"topic": topic}, dataset_id=movie_dataset.id)

Example 2

This shows an instance of converting a factory to an accepted function.

@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 from dateutil.parser import parse
-
-from langchain.agents import AgentExecutor
+from langchain.agents import AgentExecutor, create_openai_tools_agent
 from langchain.agents.format_scratchpad import format_to_openai_functions
 from langchain.agents.output_parsers import OpenAIFunctionsAgentOutputParser
-from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
 from langchain.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate, MessagesPlaceholder
 from langchain.tools import DuckDuckGoSearchResults, tool
 from langchain.tools.render import format_tool_to_openai_function
+from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI

 @tool
@@ -24,7 +23,7 @@ def check_calendar(date: str) -> list:
     return ["Focus time"]  # If only...

-def agent_factory():
+def agent(inputs: dict):
     llm = ChatOpenAI(
         model="gpt-3.5-turbo-16k",
         temperature=0,
@@ -35,32 +34,19 @@ def agent_factory():
         ),  # General internet search using DuckDuckGo
         check_calendar,
     ]
-    llm_with_tools = llm.bind(
-        functions=[format_tool_to_openai_function(t) for t in tools]
-    )
     prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_messages(
         [
             ("system", "You are a helpful assistant."),
             MessagesPlaceholder(variable_name="agent_scratchpad"),
-            ("user", "{input}"),
+            ("user", "{question}"),
         ]
     )
+    runnable_agent = create_openai_tools_agent(llm, tools, prompt)

-    runnable_agent = (
-        {
-            "input": lambda x: x["question"],
-            "agent_scratchpad": lambda x: format_to_openai_functions(
-                x["intermediate_steps"]
-            ),
-        }
-        | prompt
-        | llm_with_tools
-        | OpenAIFunctionsAgentOutputParser()
-    )
-
-    return AgentExecutor(
+    executor = AgentExecutor(
         agent=runnable_agent,
         tools=tools,
         handle_parsing_errors=True,
         return_intermediate_steps=True,
-    )
+
+    )
+    return executor.invoke(inputs)

Example 3

We now prefer functions directly over subclassing RunEvaluator, and it's easier to return a dict, though you can still return an EvaluationResult.

@@ -1,24 +1,20 @@
 from typing import Optional

-from langsmith.evaluation import EvaluationResult, RunEvaluator
 from langsmith.schemas import Example, Run

-class AgentTrajectoryEvaluator(RunEvaluator):
-    def evaluate_run(
-        self, run: Run, example: Optional[Example] = None
-    ) -> EvaluationResult:
-        if run.outputs is None:
-            raise ValueError("Run outputs cannot be None")
-        # This is the output of each run
-        intermediate_steps = run.outputs["intermediate_steps"]
-        # Since we are comparing to the tool names, we now need to get that
-        # Intermediate steps is a Tuple[AgentAction, Any]
-        # The first element is the action taken
-        # The second element is the observation from taking that action
-        trajectory = [action.tool for action, _ in intermediate_steps]
-        # This is what we uploaded to the dataset
-        expected_trajectory = example.outputs["expected_steps"]
-        # Just score it based on whether it is correct or not
-        score = int(trajectory == expected_trajectory)
-        return EvaluationResult(key="Intermediate steps correctness", score=score)
+
+def intermediate_step_correctness(run: Run, example: Optional[Example] = None) -> dict:
+    if run.outputs is None:
+        raise ValueError("Run outputs cannot be None")
+    # This is the output of each run
+    intermediate_steps = run.outputs.get("intermediate_steps") or []
+    # Since we are comparing to the tool names, we now need to get that
+    # Intermediate steps is a Tuple[AgentAction, Any]
+    # The first element is the action taken
+    # The second element is the observation from taking that action
+    trajectory = [action.tool for action, _ in intermediate_steps]
+    # This is what we uploaded to the dataset
+    expected_trajectory = example.outputs["expected_steps"]
+    # Just score it based on whether it is correct or not
+    score = int(trajectory == expected_trajectory)
+    return {"key": "Intermediate steps correctness", "score": score}

Example 4

 from langchain.smith import RunEvalConfig
+from langsmith.evaluation import LangChainStringEvaluator, evaluate
+from langsmith.schemas import Example, Run

-def construct_chain():
+def predict(inputs: dict):
     # Add a step to convert the data from the dataset to a form the chain can consume
+    return chain.invoke(
+        {
+            "input": inputs["question"],
+            "chat_history": convert_openai_messages(inputs["chat_history"]),
+        }
+    )
+
+
+def format_evaluator_inputs(run: Run, example: Example):
     return {
-        "input": lambda x: x["question"],
-        "chat_history": lambda x: convert_openai_messages(x["chat_history"]),
-    } | chain
+        "input": example.inputs["question"],
+        "prediction": next(iter(run.outputs.values())),
+        "reference": example.outputs["expected"],
+    }
+
+correctness_evaluator = LangChainStringEvaluator(
+    "labeled_score_string",
+    config={"criteria": "correctness", "normalize_by": 10},
+    prepare_data=format_evaluator_inputs,
+)

-results = client.run_on_dataset(
-    dataset_name=dataset_name,
-    llm_or_chain_factory=construct_chain,
-    evaluation=RunEvalConfig(
-        evaluators=[
-            RunEvalConfig.LabeledScoreString(criteria="correctness", normalize_by=10)
-        ],
-        # We must specify which key in the example inputs to pass to the evaluator
-        input_key="question",
-    ),
+results = evaluate(
+    predict,
+    data=dataset_name,
+    experiment_prefix="Chat Single Turn",
+    evaluators=[correctness_evaluator],
+    metadata={"model": "gpt-3.5-turbo"},
 )

Example 4

In this case, we can use chain.invoke directly (it's a method/function) since teh dataset's input keys align with the expected inputs of the pipeline (chain).

@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
-from langchain.smith import RunEvalConfig
+from langsmith.evaluation import LangChainStringEvaluator, evaluate

-eval_config = RunEvalConfig(
-    evaluators=["json_edit_distance"],
-)
-res = client.run_on_dataset(
-    dataset_name=dataset_name,
-    llm_or_chain_factory=chain,
-    evaluation=eval_config,
+res = evaluate(
+    chain.invoke,
+    data=dataset_name,
+    evaluators=[LangChainStringEvaluator("json_edit_distance")],
     # In case you are rate-limited
-    concurrency_level=2,
+    max_concurrency=2,
 )

Example 5

We can use the batch create_examples method in lieu of a for loop.

@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-from langsmith import Client
 import uuid

+from langsmith import Client
+
 client = Client()
-dataset_name = f"Dynamic Titanic CSV {str(uuid.uuid4())}"
+dataset_name = f"Dynamic Titanic CSV {uuid.uuid4().hex[:4]}"
 dataset = client.create_dataset(
     dataset_name=dataset_name,
     description="Test QA over CSV",
 )

-for example in questions:
-    client.create_example(
-        inputs={"question": example[0]},
-        outputs={"code": example[1]},
-        dataset_id=dataset.id,
-    )
+
+client.create_examples(
+    inputs=[{"question": example[0]} for example in questions],
+    outputs=[{"code": example[1]} for example in questions],
+    dataset_id=dataset.id,
+)

Example 6

Prefer regular python functions vs. functools.partial since some of our users aren't as familiar with them.

@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
-from functools import partial
-
-from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
-from langchain.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate
+from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate
 from langchain_experimental.agents import create_pandas_dataframe_agent
+from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
+
+llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4-turbo-preview", temperature=0.0)
+

-llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4", temperature=0.0)
-create_chain = partial(
-    create_pandas_dataframe_agent,
-    agent_type="openai-tools",
-    llm=llm,
-    df=df,
-)
+
+def predict(inputs: dict):
+    agent = create_pandas_dataframe_agent(agent_type="openai-tools", llm=llm, df=df)
+    return agent.invoke({"input": inputs["question"]})
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
-chain_results = run_on_dataset(
-    client,
-    dataset_name=dataset_name,
-    llm_or_chain_factory=create_chain_2,
-    evaluation=eval_config,
-    concurrency_level=1,
+chain_results = evaluate(
+    predict,
+    data=dataset_name,
+    evaluators=[criteria_evaluator],
+    # This agent doesn't support concurrent runs yet.
+    max_concurrency=1,
+    metadata={
+        "time": "T2",
+    },
 )

Convert the following to use the evaluate function.

{input}

If the input is a notebook, respond with a valid .ipynb notebook that can be directly rendered. Otherwise, respond with the proper correction.

This prompt contains variables shown as ⟨variable_name⟩. Replace them with your own values before using.

How to Use

Use with LangChain: hub.pull("wfh/run2evaluate")

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