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Calling LangChain from Go (Part 1)

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Motivation

Following my “holiday” tests (previous posts…) on using Golang and LLMs, I was looking for an easy way to implement LangChain calling in Go, and preferably using watsonx.ai.

Luckily I found the following Github repository: https://github.com/tmc/langchaingo (curtsy to Travis Cline https://github.com/tmc).

In his repository, there is this specific folder: https://github.com/tmc/langchaingo/blob/main/examples/watsonx-llm-example/watsonx_example.go which caught my attention!

So as usual I built a project and tried to implement it and also put my own ideas (à ma sauce 😄).

Implementation

As usual as there is a need on environment variables, I set up an .env file which is later used in the app.

export WATSONX_API_KEY="your-watsonx-api-key"
export WATSONX_PROJECT_ID="your-watsonx-projectid"
# I used the US-SOUTH, could be any other region of IBM Cloud
export SERVICE_URL="https://us-south.ml.cloud.ibm.com" 
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In a previous post I mentioned trying to count the number of tokens sent to and received from a LLM. That work is still WIP, so I used directly the “tiktoken-go” library inside my app with an idea of making some changes to it (in a near future?). Anyways, in the case of my current state of progress it does not really work, but it is there.

For the app by itself, I used Travis’ code from his repository almost as is, and added and wrapped it with the following features;

  • using a dialog box for the prompt input (🙄 I love dialog-boxes 😂)
  • attempt” to count the number of “tokens” sent to and received back from the LLM. The code by itself is the following;
package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "os"
    "os/exec"
    "runtime"

    "fyne.io/fyne/v2"
    "fyne.io/fyne/v2/app"
    "fyne.io/fyne/v2/container"
    "fyne.io/fyne/v2/dialog"
    "fyne.io/fyne/v2/widget"

    "github.com/joho/godotenv"
    "github.com/pkoukk/tiktoken-go"
    "github.com/tmc/langchaingo/llms"
    "github.com/tmc/langchaingo/llms/watsonx"
)

const (
    _tokenApproximation = 4
)

const (
    _gpt35TurboContextSize   = 4096
    _gpt432KContextSize      = 32768
    _gpt4ContextSize         = 8192
    _textDavinci3ContextSize = 4097
    _textBabbage1ContextSize = 2048
    _textAda1ContextSize     = 2048
    _textCurie1ContextSize   = 2048
    _codeDavinci2ContextSize = 8000
    _codeCushman1ContextSize = 2048
    _textBisonContextSize    = 2048
    _chatBisonContextSize    = 2048
    _defaultContextSize      = 2048
)

// nolint:gochecknoglobals
var modelToContextSize = map[string]int{
    "gpt-3.5-turbo":    _gpt35TurboContextSize,
    "gpt-4-32k":        _gpt432KContextSize,
    "gpt-4":            _gpt4ContextSize,
    "text-davinci-003": _textDavinci3ContextSize,
    "text-curie-001":   _textCurie1ContextSize,
    "text-babbage-001": _textBabbage1ContextSize,
    "text-ada-001":     _textAda1ContextSize,
    "code-davinci-002": _codeDavinci2ContextSize,
    "code-cushman-001": _codeCushman1ContextSize,
}

var tokens int

func runCmd(name string, arg ...string) {
    cmd := exec.Command(name, arg...)
    cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
    cmd.Run()
}

func ClearTerminal() {
    switch runtime.GOOS {
    case "darwin":
        runCmd("clear")
    case "linux":
        runCmd("clear")
    case "windows":
        runCmd("cmd", "/c", "cls")
    default:
        runCmd("clear")
    }
}

func promptEntryDialog() string {

    var promptEntry string

    // Create a new Fyne application
    myApp := app.New()
    myWindow := myApp.NewWindow("Prompt Entry Dialog")

    // Variable to store user input
    var userInput string

    // Button to show the dialog
    button := widget.NewButton("Click to Enter your prompt's text", func() {
        entry := widget.NewEntry()
        dialog.ShowCustomConfirm("Input Dialog", "OK", "Cancel", entry, func(confirm bool) {
            if confirm {
                userInput = entry.Text
                promptEntry = userInput
                fmt.Println("User Input:", userInput) // Print to the console
                myWindow.Close()
            }
        }, myWindow)
    })

    // Add the button to the window
    myWindow.SetContent(container.NewVBox(
        widget.NewLabel("Click the button below to enter text:"),
        button,
    ))

    // Set the window size and run the application
    myWindow.Resize(fyne.NewSize(400, 200))
    myWindow.ShowAndRun()
    return promptEntry
}

func CountTokens(model, text string, inorout string) int {
    var txtLen int
    e, err := tiktoken.EncodingForModel(model)
    if err != nil {
        e, err = tiktoken.GetEncoding("gpt2")
        if err != nil {
            log.Printf("[WARN] Failed to calculate number of tokens for model, falling back to approximate count")
            txtLen = len([]rune(text))

            fmt.Println("Guessed tokens for the "+inorout+" text:", txtLen/_tokenApproximation)

            return txtLen
        }
    }
    return len(e.Encode(text, nil, nil))
}

func GetModelContextSize(model string) int {
    contextSize, ok := modelToContextSize[model]
    if !ok {
        return _defaultContextSize
    }
    return contextSize
}

func CalculateMaxTokens(model, text string) int {
    return GetModelContextSize(model) - CountTokens(model, text, text)
}

func main() {
    var prompt, model string

    // read the '.env' file
    err := godotenv.Load()
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal("Error loading .env file")
    }

    ApiKey := os.Getenv("WATSONX_API_KEY")
    if ApiKey == "" {
        log.Fatal("WATSONX_API_KEY environment variable is not set")
    }
    ServiceURL := os.Getenv("SERVICE_URL")
    if ServiceURL == "" {
        log.Fatal("SERVICE_URL environment variable is not set")
    }
    ProjectID := os.Getenv("WATSONX_PROJECT_ID")
    if ProjectID == "" {
        log.Fatal("WATSONX_PROJECT_ID environment variable is not set")
    }

    // LLM from watsonx.ai
    model = "ibm/granite-13b-instruct-v2"
    // model = "meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct"

    llm, err := watsonx.New(
        model,
        //// Optional parameters: to be implemented if needed - Not used at this stage but all ready
        // wx.WithWatsonxAPIKey(ApiKey),
        // wx.WithWatsonxProjectID("YOUR WATSONX PROJECT ID"),
    )

    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    ctx := context.Background()

    prompt = promptEntryDialog()

    // for the output visibility on the consol - getting rid of system messages
    ClearTerminal()

    // Use the entry variable here
    fmt.Println("Calling the llm with the user's prompt:", prompt)

    tokens = CountTokens(model, prompt, "input")

    completion, err := llms.GenerateFromSinglePrompt(
        ctx,
        llm,
        prompt,
        llms.WithTopK(10),
        llms.WithTopP(0.95),
        llms.WithSeed(25),
    )
    // Check for errors
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    fmt.Println(completion)

    tokens = CountTokens(model, completion, "output")

}

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Which works fine as the output is shown below.

Calling the llm with the user's prompt: What is the distance in Kilmometers from Earth to Moon?
2024/12/31 11:08:04 [WARN] Failed to calculate number of tokens for model, falling back to approximate count
Guessed tokens for the input text: 13
The distance from Earth to the Moon is about 384,400 kilometers.
2024/12/31 11:08:04 [WARN] Failed to calculate number of tokens for model, falling back to approximate count
Guessed tokens for the output text: 16

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Calling the llm with the user's prompt: What is the name of the capital city of France?
2024/12/31 11:39:28 [WARN] Failed to calculate number of tokens for model, falling back to approximate count
Guessed tokens for the input text: 11
Paris
2024/12/31 11:39:28 [WARN] Failed to calculate number of tokens for model, falling back to approximate count
Guessed tokens for the output text: 1
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Voilà!

Next steps

I would implement the following features for the version 0.2;

  • Proposing the model the user wants to use,
  • A more accurate way to determine the # of tokens,
  • Some real LangChain implementation.

Conclusion

This is a very simple reflection of my work around calling LangChain from a Go application.

Stay tuned for more to come 💡

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