ChatNVIDIA

This will help you get started with NVIDIA chat models. For detailed documentation of all ChatNVIDIA features and configurations head to the API reference.

Overview

The langchain-nvidia-ai-endpoints package contains LangChain integrations for chat models and embeddings powered by NVIDIA AI Foundation Models, and hosted on the NVIDIA API Catalog.

NVIDIA AI Foundation models are community- and NVIDIA-built models that are optimized to deliver the best performance on NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure. You can use the API to query live endpoints that are available on the NVIDIA API Catalog to get quick results from a DGX-hosted cloud compute environment, or you can download models from NVIDIA’s API catalog with NVIDIA NIM, which is included with the NVIDIA AI Enterprise license. The ability to run models on-premises gives your enterprise ownership of your customizations and full control of your IP and AI application.

NIM microservices are packaged as container images on a per model/model family basis and are distributed as NGC container images through the NVIDIA NGC Catalog. At their core, NIM microservices are containers that provide interactive APIs for running inference on an AI Model.

This example goes over how to use LangChain to interact with NVIDIA models via the ChatNVIDIA class.

For more information on accessing embedding models through this API, refer to the NVIDIAEmbeddings documentation.

Integration details

Class	Package	Serializable	JS support	Downloads	Version
ChatNVIDIA	langchain-nvidia-ai-endpoints	beta	❌

Model features

Tool calling	Structured output	Image input	Audio input	Video input	Token-level streaming	Native async	Token usage	Logprobs
✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌

Install the package

pip install -qU langchain-nvidia-ai-endpoints

Access the NVIDIA API Catalog

To get access to the NVIDIA API Catalog, do the following:

1. Create a free account on the NVIDIA API Catalog and log in.
2. Click your profile icon, and then click API Keys. The API Keys page appears.
3. Click Generate API Key. The Generate API Key window appears.
4. Click Generate Key. You should see API Key Granted, and your key appears.
5. Copy and save the key as NVIDIA_API_KEY.
6. To verify your key, use the following code.

import getpass
import os

if os.environ.get("NVIDIA_API_KEY", "").startswith("nvapi-"):
    print("Valid NVIDIA_API_KEY already in environment. Delete to reset")
else:
    nvapi_key = getpass.getpass("NVAPI Key (starts with nvapi-): ")
    assert nvapi_key.startswith(
        "nvapi-"
    ), f"{nvapi_key[:5]}... is not a valid key"
    os.environ["NVIDIA_API_KEY"] = nvapi_key

You can now use your key to access endpoints on the NVIDIA API Catalog.

To enable automated tracing of your model calls, set your LangSmith API key:

os.environ["LANGSMITH_TRACING"] = "true"
os.environ["LANGSMITH_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("Enter your LangSmith API key: ")

Instantiation

Now we can access models in the NVIDIA API Catalog:

## Core LC Chat Interface
from langchain_nvidia_ai_endpoints import ChatNVIDIA

llm = ChatNVIDIA(model="mistralai/mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1")

Invocation

result = llm.invoke("Write a ballad about LangChain.")
print(result.content)

Self-host with NVIDIA NIM Microservices

When you are ready to deploy your AI application, you can self-host models with NVIDIA NIM. For more information, refer to NVIDIA NIM Microservices.

The following code connects to locally hosted NIM Microservices.

from langchain_nvidia_ai_endpoints import ChatNVIDIA, NVIDIAEmbeddings, NVIDIARerank

# connect to a chat NIM running at localhost:8000, specifying a model
llm = ChatNVIDIA(base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1", model="meta/llama3-8b-instruct")

# connect to an embedding NIM running at localhost:8080
embedder = NVIDIAEmbeddings(base_url="http://localhost:8080/v1")

# connect to a reranking NIM running at localhost:2016
ranker = NVIDIARerank(base_url="http://localhost:2016/v1")

Stream, batch, and async

These models natively support streaming, and as is the case with all LangChain LLMs they expose a batch method to handle concurrent requests, as well as async methods for invoke, stream, and batch. Below are a few examples.

print(llm.batch(["What's 2*3?", "What's 2*6?"]))
# Or via the async API
# await llm.abatch(["What's 2*3?", "What's 2*6?"])

for chunk in llm.stream("How far can a seagull fly in one day?"):
    # Show the token separations
    print(chunk.content, end="|")

async for chunk in llm.astream(
    "How long does it take for monarch butterflies to migrate?"
):
    print(chunk.content, end="|")

Supported models

Querying available_models will still give you all of the other models offered by your API credentials.

The playground_ prefix is optional.

ChatNVIDIA.get_available_models()
# llm.get_available_models()

Model types

All of these models above are supported and can be accessed via ChatNVIDIA.

Some model types support unique prompting techniques and chat messages. We will review a few important ones below.

To find out more about a specific model, please navigate to the API section of an AI Foundation model as linked here.

General chat

Models such as meta/llama3-8b-instruct and mistralai/mixtral-8x22b-instruct-v0.1 are good all-around models that you can use for with any LangChain chat messages. Example below.

from langchain_core.output_parsers import StrOutputParser
from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate
from langchain_nvidia_ai_endpoints import ChatNVIDIA

prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_messages(
    [("system", "You are a helpful AI assistant named Fred."), ("user", "{input}")]
)
chain = prompt | ChatNVIDIA(model="meta/llama3-8b-instruct") | StrOutputParser()

for txt in chain.stream({"input": "What's your name?"}):
    print(txt, end="")

Code generation

These models accept the same arguments and input structure as regular chat models, but they tend to perform better on code-generation and structured code tasks. An example of this is meta/codellama-70b.

prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_messages(
    [
        (
            "system",
            "You are an expert coding AI. Respond only in valid python; no narration whatsoever.",
        ),
        ("user", "{input}"),
    ]
)
chain = prompt | ChatNVIDIA(model="meta/codellama-70b") | StrOutputParser()

for txt in chain.stream({"input": "How do I solve this fizz buzz problem?"}):
    print(txt, end="")

Multimodal

NVIDIA also supports multimodal inputs, meaning you can provide both images and text for the model to reason over. An example model supporting multimodal inputs is nvidia/neva-22b.

Below is an example use:

import IPython
import requests

image_url = "https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/research/ai-playground/[e-mail]"  ## Large Image
image_content = requests.get(image_url).content

IPython.display.Image(image_content)

from langchain_nvidia_ai_endpoints import ChatNVIDIA

llm = ChatNVIDIA(model="nvidia/neva-22b")

Passing an image as a URL

from langchain.messages import HumanMessage

llm.invoke(
    [
        HumanMessage(
            content=[
                {"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image:"},
                {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": image_url}},
            ]
        )
    ]
)

Passing an image as a base64 encoded string

At the moment, some extra processing happens client-side to support larger images like the one above. But for smaller images (and to better illustrate the process going on under the hood), we can directly pass in the image as shown below:

import IPython
import requests

image_url = "https://picsum.photos/seed/kitten/300/200"
image_content = requests.get(image_url).content

IPython.display.Image(image_content)

import base64

from langchain.messages import HumanMessage

## Works for simpler images. For larger images, see actual implementation
b64_string = base64.b64encode(image_content).decode("utf-8")

llm.invoke(
    [
        HumanMessage(
            content=[
                {"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image:"},
                {
                    "type": "image_url",
                    "image_url": {"url": f"data:image/png;base64,{b64_string}"},
                },
            ]
        )
    ]
)

Directly within the string

The NVIDIA API uniquely accepts images as base64 images inlined within <img/> HTML tags. While this isn’t interoperable with other LLMs, you can directly prompt the model accordingly.

base64_with_mime_type = f"data:image/png;base64,{b64_string}"
llm.invoke(f'What\'s in this image?\n<img src="{base64_with_mime_type}" />')

Example usage within a RunnableWithMessageHistory

Like any other integration, ChatNVIDIA is fine to support chat utilities like RunnableWithMessageHistory which is analogous to using ConversationChain. Below, we show the LangChain RunnableWithMessageHistory example applied to the mistralai/mixtral-8x22b-instruct-v0.1 model.

pip install -qU langchain

from langchain_core.chat_history import InMemoryChatMessageHistory
from langchain_core.runnables.history import RunnableWithMessageHistory

# store is a dictionary that maps session IDs to their corresponding chat histories.
store = {}  # memory is maintained outside the chain


# A function that returns the chat history for a given session ID.
def get_session_history(session_id: str) -> InMemoryChatMessageHistory:
    if session_id not in store:
        store[session_id] = InMemoryChatMessageHistory()
    return store[session_id]


chat = ChatNVIDIA(
    model="mistralai/mixtral-8x22b-instruct-v0.1",
    temperature=0.1,
    max_tokens=100,
    top_p=1.0,
)

#  Define a RunnableConfig object, with a `configurable` key. session_id determines thread
config = {"configurable": {"session_id": "1"}}

conversation = RunnableWithMessageHistory(
    chat,
    get_session_history,
)

conversation.invoke(
    "Hi I'm Srijan Dubey.",  # input or query
    config=config,
)

conversation.invoke(
    "I'm doing well! Just having a conversation with an AI.",
    config=config,
)

conversation.invoke(
    "Tell me about yourself.",
    config=config,
)

Tool calling

Starting in v0.2, ChatNVIDIA supports bind_tools.

ChatNVIDIA provides integration with the variety of models on build.nvidia.com as well as local NIMs. Not all these models are trained for tool calling. Be sure to select a model that does have tool calling for your experimention and applications.

You can get a list of models that are known to support tool calling with,

tool_models = [
    model for model in ChatNVIDIA.get_available_models() if model.supports_tools
]
tool_models

With a tool capable model,

from langchain.tools import tool
from pydantic import Field


@tool
def get_current_weather(
    location: str = Field(..., description="The location to get the weather for."),
):
    """Get the current weather for a location."""
    ...


llm = ChatNVIDIA(model=tool_models[0].id).bind_tools(tools=[get_current_weather])
response = llm.invoke("What is the weather in Boston?")
response.tool_calls

See How to use chat models to call tools for additional examples.

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API reference

For detailed documentation of all ChatNVIDIA features and configurations head to the API reference: python.langchain.com/api_reference/nvidia_ai_endpoints/chat_models/langchain_nvidia_ai_endpoints.chat_models.ChatNVIDIA.html

Related topics

• langchain-nvidia-ai-endpoints package README
• Overview of NVIDIA NIM for Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Overview of NeMo Retriever Embedding NIM
• Overview of NeMo Retriever Reranking NIM
• NVIDIAEmbeddings Model for RAG Workflows
• NVIDIA Provider Page

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