Building LLM Applications using LangChain
Chapter 1: Introduction to the LangChain Framework
The Motivation for a Framework
LangChain's Core Architecture
Setting Up Your Development Environment
Your First LangChain Application
Chapter 2: Models, Prompts, and Parsers
Interfacing with LLMs and Chat Models
Managing Prompts with PromptTemplates
Implementing Few-Shot Prompting
Structuring Output with Parsers
Hands-on Practical: Building a Structured Data Extractor
Chapter 3: Constructing Chains for Sequential Operations
Fundamentals of Chains
Using the Simple LLMChain
Creating Sequential Chains
Implementing Conditional Logic with Router Chains
Hands-on Practical: A Content Generation Pipeline
Chapter 4: Memory for Conversational Applications
The Importance of State in Conversations
Buffer Memory for Short-Term Recall
Summarization Memory for Long Conversations
Using Windowed and Token-Based Memory
Adding Memory to Chains and Agents
Practice: Building a Chatbot with Memory
Chapter 5: Data Connection for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Architecture of a RAG System
Loading Data with Document Loaders
Splitting Documents for Processing
Vector Stores and Embeddings
Fetching Data with Retrievers
Building a Question-Answering Chain
Hands-on Practical: Q&A over Your Documents
Chapter 6: Developing Autonomous Agents
Introduction to Agents and Tools
The Agent, Tool, and Toolkit Architecture
Using Built-in Tools
Creating Custom Tools
Exploring Agent Types and Executors
Hands-on Practical: A Web-Searching Agent
Managing Prompts with PromptTemplates
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- LangChain Expression Language (LCEL) | Prompts, LangChain, 2024 (LangChain) - Official documentation explaining the PromptTemplate and ChatPromptTemplate objects, their usage, and role in the LangChain Expression Language.
- Prompt Engineering Guide, 2024 - A comprehensive community guide to prompt engineering techniques, offering broader context on designing effective prompts for large language models.
- Chat completions, OpenAI, 2024 (OpenAI) - Official documentation for OpenAI's Chat Completions API, illustrating the message format (system, user, assistant roles) that ChatPromptTemplate abstracts.