Create LLM Agent using OpenVINO

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LLM are limited to the knowledge on which they have been trained and the additional knowledge provided as context, as a result, if a useful piece of information is missing the provided knowledge, the model cannot “go around” and try to find it in other sources. This is the reason why we need to introduce the concept of Agents.

The core idea of agents is to use a language model to choose a sequence of actions to take. In agents, a language model is used as a reasoning engine to determine which actions to take and in which order. Agents can be seen as applications powered by LLMs and integrated with a set of tools like search engines, databases, websites, and so on. Within an agent, the LLM is the reasoning engine that, based on the user input, is able to plan and execute a set of actions that are needed to fulfill the request.

agent

agent

LangChain is a framework for developing applications powered by language models. LangChain comes with a number of built-in agents that are optimized for different use cases.

This notebook explores how to create an AI Agent step by step using OpenVINO and LangChain.

Table of contents:

Prerequisites

%pip uninstall -q -y openvino-dev openvino openvino-nightly optimum optimum-intel
%pip install -q --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu\
"git+https://github.com/huggingface/optimum-intel.git"\
"git+https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/nncf.git"\
"torch>=2.1"\
"datasets"\
"accelerate"\
"openvino-nightly"\
"gradio"\
"transformers>=4.38.1" "langchain>=0.1.14" "wikipedia"

Create a tools

First, we need to create some tools to call. In this example, we will create 3 custom functions to do basic calculation. For more information on creating custom tools.

from langchain_core.tools import tool


@tool
def multiply(first_int: int, second_int: int) -> int:
    """Multiply two integers together."""
    return first_int * second_int


@tool
def add(first_int: int, second_int: int) -> int:
    "Add two integers."
    return first_int + second_int


@tool
def exponentiate(base: int, exponent: int) -> int:
    "Exponentiate the base to the exponent power."
    return base**exponent

Tools are interfaces that an agent, chain, or LLM can use to interact with the world. They combine a few things:

  1. The name of the tool

  2. A description of what the tool is

  3. JSON schema of what the inputs to the tool are

  4. The function to call

  5. Whether the result of a tool should be returned directly to the user

print(f"name of `multiply` tool: {multiply.name}")
print(f"description of `multiply` tool: {multiply.description}")
name of multiply tool: multiply
description of multiply tool: multiply(first_int: int, second_int: int) -> int - Multiply two integers together.

Now that we have created all of them, and we can create a list of tools that we will use downstream.

tools = [multiply, add, exponentiate]

Create prompt template

A prompt for a language model is a set of instructions or input provided by a user to guide the model’s response, helping it understand the context and generate relevant and coherent language-based output, such as answering questions, completing sentences, or engaging in a conversation.

Different agents have different prompting styles for reasoning. In this example, we will use ReAct agent with its typical prompt template. For a full list of built-in agents see agent types.

react

react

A ReAct prompt consists of few-shot task-solving trajectories, with human-written text reasoning traces and actions, as well as environment observations in response to actions. ReAct prompting is intuitive and flexible to design, and achieves state-of-the-art few-shot performances across a variety of tasks, from question answering to online shopping!

In an prompt template for agent, agent_scratchpad should be a sequence of messages that contains the previous agent tool invocations and the corresponding tool outputs.

from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate

prompt = PromptTemplate.from_template(
    """Answer the following questions as best you can. You have access to the following tools:

    {tools}

    Use the following format:

    Question: the input question you must answer
    Thought: you should always think about what to do
    Action: the action to take, should be one of [{tool_names}]
    Action Input: the input to the action\nObservation: the result of the action
    ... (this Thought/Action/Action Input/Observation can repeat N times)
    Thought: I now know the final answer
    Final Answer: the final answer to the original input question

    Begin!

    Question: {input}
    Thought:{agent_scratchpad}"""
)

Create LLM

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a core component of LangChain. LangChain does not serve its own LLMs, but rather provides a standard interface for interacting with many different LLMs. In this example, we select neural-chat-7b-v3-1 as LLM in agent pipeline.

neural-chat-7b-v3-1 - Mistral-7b model fine-tuned using Intel Gaudi. The model fine-tuned on the open source dataset Open-Orca/SlimOrca and aligned with Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) algorithm. More details can be found in model card and blog post.

Download model

To run LLM locally, we have to download the model in the first step. It is possible to export your model to the OpenVINO IR format with the CLI, and load the model from local folder.

from pathlib import Path

model_id = "Intel/neural-chat-7b-v3-1"
model_path = "neural-chat-7b-v3-1-ov-int4"

if not Path(model_path).exists():
    !optimum-cli export openvino --model {model_id} --weight-format int4 {model_path}

Select inference device for LLM

import openvino as ov
import ipywidgets as widgets

core = ov.Core()
device = widgets.Dropdown(
    options=core.available_devices + ["AUTO"],
    value="CPU",
    description="Device:",
    disabled=False,
)

device
Dropdown(description='Device:', options=('CPU', 'GPU.0', 'GPU.1', 'AUTO'), value='CPU')

OpenVINO models can be run locally through the HuggingFacePipeline class in LangChain. To deploy a model with OpenVINO, you can specify the backend="openvino" parameter to trigger OpenVINO as backend inference framework. For more information.

from langchain_community.llms.huggingface_pipeline import HuggingFacePipeline

ov_config = {"PERFORMANCE_HINT": "LATENCY", "NUM_STREAMS": "1", "CACHE_DIR": ""}

ov_llm = HuggingFacePipeline.from_model_id(
    model_id=model_path,
    task="text-generation",
    backend="openvino",
    model_kwargs={"device": device.value, "ov_config": ov_config},
    pipeline_kwargs={"max_new_tokens": 1024},
)
2024-05-01 12:57:42.013703: I tensorflow/core/util/port.cc:110] oneDNN custom operations are on. You may see slightly different numerical results due to floating-point round-off errors from different computation orders. To turn them off, set the environment variable TF_ENABLE_ONEDNN_OPTS=0.
2024-05-01 12:57:42.015389: I tensorflow/tsl/cuda/cudart_stub.cc:28] Could not find cuda drivers on your machine, GPU will not be used.
2024-05-01 12:57:42.049792: I tensorflow/tsl/cuda/cudart_stub.cc:28] Could not find cuda drivers on your machine, GPU will not be used.
2024-05-01 12:57:42.050591: I tensorflow/core/platform/cpu_feature_guard.cc:182] This TensorFlow binary is optimized to use available CPU instructions in performance-critical operations.
To enable the following instructions: AVX2 AVX512F AVX512_VNNI FMA, in other operations, rebuild TensorFlow with the appropriate compiler flags.
2024-05-01 12:57:42.819557: W tensorflow/compiler/tf2tensorrt/utils/py_utils.cc:38] TF-TRT Warning: Could not find TensorRT
/home/ea/work/my_optimum_intel/optimum_env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/bitsandbytes/cextension.py:34: UserWarning: The installed version of bitsandbytes was compiled without GPU support. 8-bit optimizers, 8-bit multiplication, and GPU quantization are unavailable.
  warn("The installed version of bitsandbytes was compiled without GPU support. "
/home/ea/work/my_optimum_intel/optimum_env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/bitsandbytes/libbitsandbytes_cpu.so: undefined symbol: cadam32bit_grad_fp32
INFO:nncf:NNCF initialized successfully. Supported frameworks detected: torch, tensorflow, onnx, openvino
No CUDA runtime is found, using CUDA_HOME='/usr/local/cuda'
WARNING[XFORMERS]: xFormers can't load C++/CUDA extensions. xFormers was built for:
    PyTorch 2.0.1+cu118 with CUDA 1108 (you have 2.1.2+cpu)
    Python  3.8.18 (you have 3.8.10)
  Please reinstall xformers (see https://github.com/facebookresearch/xformers#installing-xformers)
  Memory-efficient attention, SwiGLU, sparse and more won't be available.
  Set XFORMERS_MORE_DETAILS=1 for more details
Compiling the model to CPU ...

You can get additional inference speed improvement with [Dynamic Quantization of activations and KV-cache quantization] on CPU(https://docs.openvino.ai/2024/learn-openvino/llm_inference_guide/llm-inference-hf.html#enabling-openvino-runtime-optimizations). These options can be enabled with ov_config as follows:

ov_config = {
    "KV_CACHE_PRECISION": "u8",
    "DYNAMIC_QUANTIZATION_GROUP_SIZE": "32",
    "PERFORMANCE_HINT": "LATENCY",
    "NUM_STREAMS": "1",
    "CACHE_DIR": "",
}

Create agent

Now that we have defined the tools, prompt template and LLM, we can create the agent_executor.

The agent executor is the runtime for an agent. This is what actually calls the agent, executes the actions it chooses, passes the action outputs back to the agent, and repeats.

from custom_output_parser import ReActSingleInputOutputParser
from langchain.agents import AgentExecutor, create_react_agent

output_parser = ReActSingleInputOutputParser()

agent = create_react_agent(ov_llm, tools, prompt, output_parser=output_parser)
agent_executor = AgentExecutor(agent=agent, tools=tools, verbose=True)

Run the agent

We can now run the agent with a math query. Before getting the final answer, a agent executor will also produce intermediate steps of reasoning and actions. The format of these messages will follow your prompt template.

agent_executor.invoke({"input": "Take 3 to the fifth power and multiply that by the sum of twelve and three"})
> Entering new AgentExecutor chain...
Answer the following questions as best you can. You have access to the following tools:

    multiply: multiply(first_int: int, second_int: int) -> int - Multiply two integers together.
add: add(first_int: int, second_int: int) -> int - Add two integers.
exponentiate: exponentiate(base: int, exponent: int) -> int - Exponentiate the base to the exponent power.

    Use the following format:

    Question: the input question you must answer
    Thought: you should always think about what to do
    Action: the action to take, should be one of [multiply, add, exponentiate]
    Action Input: the input to the action
Observation: the result of the action
    ... (this Thought/Action/Action Input/Observation can repeat N times)
    Thought: I now know the final answer
    Final Answer: the final answer to the original input question

    Begin!

    Question: Take 3 to the fifth power and multiply that by the sum of twelve and three
    Thought: We need to exponentiate 3 to the power of 5, then multiply the result by the sum of 12 and 3
    Action: exponentiate
    Action Input: base: 3, exponent: 5
    Observation: 243
    Action: add
    Action Input: first_int: 12, second_int: 3
    Observation: 15
    Action: multiply
    Action Input: first_int: 243, second_int: 15
    Observation: 3645
    Thought: I now know the final answer
    Final Answer: 3645

> Finished chain.
{'input': 'Take 3 to the fifth power and multiply that by the sum of twelve and three',
 'output': '3645'}

Interactive Demo

Let’s create a interactive agent using Gradio.

Use built-in tool

LangChain has provided a list of all built-in tools. In this example, we will use Wikipedia python package to query key words generated by agent.

from langchain.tools import WikipediaQueryRun
from langchain_community.utilities import WikipediaAPIWrapper


wikipedia = WikipediaQueryRun(api_wrapper=WikipediaAPIWrapper())
print(f"description of `wikipedia` tool: {wikipedia.description}")

tools = [wikipedia]

agent = create_react_agent(ov_llm, tools, prompt, output_parser=output_parser)
agent_executor = AgentExecutor(agent=agent, tools=tools, verbose=True)
description of wikipedia tool: A wrapper around Wikipedia. Useful for when you need to answer general questions about people, places, companies, facts, historical events, or other subjects. Input should be a search query.
from threading import Thread
import gradio as gr
from transformers import TextIteratorStreamer

examples = [
    ["What is OpenVINO ?"],
    ["Who is 44th presedent of USA ?"],
    ["what is Obama's first name and who is him ?"],
    ["How many people live in Canada ?"],
    ["How tall is the Eiffel Tower ?"],
]


def partial_text_processor(partial_text, new_text):
    """
    helper for updating partially generated answer, used by default

    Params:
      partial_text: text buffer for storing previosly generated text
      new_text: text update for the current step
    Returns:
      updated text string

    """
    new_text = new_text.replace("[INST]", "").replace("[/INST]", "")
    partial_text += new_text
    return partial_text


def user(message, history):
    """
    callback function for updating user messages in interface on submit button click

    Params:
      message: current message
      history: conversation history
    Returns:
      None
    """
    # Append the user's message to the conversation history
    return "", history + [[message, ""]]


def bot(history, temperature, top_p, top_k, repetition_penalty, return_intermediate_steps):
    """
    callback function for running chatbot on submit button click

    Params:
      history: conversation history
      temperature:  parameter for control the level of creativity in AI-generated text.
                    By adjusting the `temperature`, you can influence the AI model's probability distribution, making the text more focused or diverse.
      top_p: parameter for control the range of tokens considered by the AI model based on their cumulative probability.
      top_k: parameter for control the range of tokens considered by the AI model based on their cumulative probability, selecting number of tokens with highest probability.
      repetition_penalty: parameter for penalizing tokens based on how frequently they occur in the text.
      return_intermediate_steps: whether return intermediate_steps of agent.

    """
    streamer = TextIteratorStreamer(
        ov_llm.pipeline.tokenizer,
        timeout=60.0,
        skip_prompt=True,
        skip_special_tokens=True,
    )

    ov_llm.pipeline._forward_params = dict(
        max_new_tokens=512,
        temperature=temperature,
        do_sample=temperature > 0.0,
        top_p=top_p,
        top_k=top_k,
        repetition_penalty=repetition_penalty,
        streamer=streamer,
    )

    t1 = Thread(target=agent_executor.invoke, args=({"input": history[-1][0]},))
    t1.start()

    # Initialize an empty string to store the generated text
    partial_text = ""
    final_answer = False

    for new_text in streamer:
        if "Answer" in new_text:
            final_answer = True
        if final_answer or return_intermediate_steps:
            partial_text = partial_text_processor(partial_text, new_text)
            history[-1][1] = partial_text
            yield history


def request_cancel():
    ov_llm.pipeline.model.request.cancel()


with gr.Blocks(
    theme=gr.themes.Soft(),
    css=".disclaimer {font-variant-caps: all-small-caps;}",
) as demo:
    gr.Markdown(f"""<h1><center>OpenVINO Agent for {wikipedia.name}</center></h1>""")
    chatbot = gr.Chatbot(height=500)
    with gr.Row():
        with gr.Column():
            msg = gr.Textbox(
                label="Chat Message Box",
                placeholder="Chat Message Box",
                show_label=False,
                container=False,
            )
        with gr.Column():
            with gr.Row():
                return_cot = gr.Checkbox(value=True, label="Return intermediate steps")
                submit = gr.Button("Submit")
                stop = gr.Button("Stop")
                clear = gr.Button("Clear")
    with gr.Row():
        with gr.Accordion("Advanced Options:", open=False):
            with gr.Row():
                with gr.Column():
                    with gr.Row():
                        temperature = gr.Slider(
                            label="Temperature",
                            value=0.1,
                            minimum=0.0,
                            maximum=1.0,
                            step=0.1,
                            interactive=True,
                            info="Higher values produce more diverse outputs",
                        )
                with gr.Column():
                    with gr.Row():
                        top_p = gr.Slider(
                            label="Top-p (nucleus sampling)",
                            value=1.0,
                            minimum=0.0,
                            maximum=1,
                            step=0.01,
                            interactive=True,
                            info=(
                                "Sample from the smallest possible set of tokens whose cumulative probability "
                                "exceeds top_p. Set to 1 to disable and sample from all tokens."
                            ),
                        )
                with gr.Column():
                    with gr.Row():
                        top_k = gr.Slider(
                            label="Top-k",
                            value=50,
                            minimum=0.0,
                            maximum=200,
                            step=1,
                            interactive=True,
                            info="Sample from a shortlist of top-k tokens — 0 to disable and sample from all tokens.",
                        )
                with gr.Column():
                    with gr.Row():
                        repetition_penalty = gr.Slider(
                            label="Repetition Penalty",
                            value=1.1,
                            minimum=1.0,
                            maximum=2.0,
                            step=0.1,
                            interactive=True,
                            info="Penalize repetition — 1.0 to disable.",
                        )
    gr.Examples(examples, inputs=msg, label="Click on any example and press the 'Submit' button")

    submit_event = msg.submit(
        fn=user,
        inputs=[msg, chatbot],
        outputs=[msg, chatbot],
        queue=False,
    ).then(
        fn=bot,
        inputs=[
            chatbot,
            temperature,
            top_p,
            top_k,
            repetition_penalty,
            return_cot,
        ],
        outputs=chatbot,
        queue=True,
    )
    submit_click_event = submit.click(
        fn=user,
        inputs=[msg, chatbot],
        outputs=[msg, chatbot],
        queue=False,
    ).then(
        fn=bot,
        inputs=[
            chatbot,
            temperature,
            top_p,
            top_k,
            repetition_penalty,
            return_cot,
        ],
        outputs=chatbot,
        queue=True,
    )
    stop.click(
        fn=request_cancel,
        inputs=None,
        outputs=None,
        cancels=[submit_event, submit_click_event],
        queue=False,
    )
    clear.click(lambda: None, None, chatbot, queue=False)

# if you are launching remotely, specify server_name and server_port
#  demo.launch(server_name='your server name', server_port='server port in int')
# if you have any issue to launch on your platform, you can pass share=True to launch method:
# demo.launch(share=True)
# it creates a publicly shareable link for the interface. Read more in the docs: https://gradio.app/docs/
demo.launch()
# please run this cell for stopping gradio interface
demo.close()