• How to run Visual Question Answering with MiniGPT-4
• How to set the embedding function
• How to set the data manager class
• How to set the similarity evaluation interface
• Other cache init params
• How to run with session
• How to use GPTCache server
• Benchmark

You can run vqa_demo.py to implement the image Q&A, which uses MiniGPT-4 for generating answers and then GPTCache to cache the answers.

Note that you need to make sure that minigpt4 and gptcache are successfully installed, and move the vqa_demo.py file to the MiniGPT-4 directory.

$ python vqa_demo.py --cfg-path eval_configs/minigpt4_eval.yaml  --gpu-id 0

The above command will use the exact match cache, i.e. map cache management method. When you ask the same image and question, it will hit the cache directly and return the answer quickly.

If you want to use similar search cache, you can run the following command to set map to False, which will use sqlite3 and faiss to manage the cache to search for similar images and questions in the cache.

You can also set dir to your workspace directory.

$ python vqa_demo.py --cfg-path eval_configs/minigpt4_eval.yaml  --gpu-id 0 --dir /path/to/workspace --no-map

Please note that not all data managers are compatible with an embedding function.

Nothing to do. Only map data manager can be configured for use.

def to_embeddings(data, **kwargs):
    return data

ONNX

When creating an Embedding object, the model will be loaded. It is important to remember to pass the dimension to the data manager.

from gptcache.core import cache, Config
from gptcache.manager import get_data_manager, CacheBase, VectorBase
from gptcache.similarity_evaluation.distance import SearchDistanceEvaluation
from gptcache.embedding import Onnx

onnx = Onnx()
data_manager = get_data_manager(CacheBase("sqlite"), VectorBase("faiss", dimension=onnx.dimension))
cache.init(embedding_func=onnx.to_embeddings,
           data_manager=data_manager,
           similarity_evaluation=SearchDistanceEvaluation(),
           )
cache.set_openai_key()

The usage of the following models is similar to the above.

from gptcache.embedding import OpenAI

openai = OpenAI()
# openai.dimension
# openai.to_embeddings

from gptcache.embedding import Huggingface

huggingface = Huggingface()
# huggingface.dimension
# huggingface.to_embeddings

from gptcache.embedding import Cohere

cohere = Cohere()
# cohere.dimension
# cohere.to_embeddings

from gptcache.embedding import SBERT

sbert = SBERT()
# sbert.dimension
# sbert.to_embeddings

from gptcache.embedding import FastText

fast_text = FastText()
# fast_text.dimension
# fast_text.to_embeddings

from gptcache.embedding import PaddleNLP

paddlenlp = PaddleNLP()
# paddlenlp.dimension
# paddlenlp.to_embeddings

The function has two parameters: the preprocessed string and parameters reserved for user customization. To acquire these parameters, a similar method to the one above is used: kwargs.get("embedding_func", {}).

def to_embeddings(data, **kwargs):
    return data

class Cohere:

    def __init__(self, model: str="large", api_key: str=None, **kwargs):
        self.co = cohere.Client(api_key)
        self.model = model

        if model in self.dim_dict():
            self.__dimension = self.dim_dict()[model]
        else:
            self.__dimension = None

    def to_embeddings(self, data):
        if not isinstance(data, list):
            data = [data]
        response = self.co.embed(texts=data, model=self.model)
        embeddings = response.embeddings
        return np.array(embeddings).astype('float32').squeeze(0)

    @property
    def dimension(self):
        if not self.__dimension:
            foo_emb = self.to_embeddings("foo")
            self.__dimension = len(foo_emb)
        return self.__dimension

    @staticmethod
    def dim_dict():
        return {
            "large": 4096,
            "small": 1024
        }

Note that if you intend to use the model, it should be packaged with a class. The model will be loaded when the object is created to avoid unnecessary loading when not in use. This also ensures that the model is not loaded multiple times during program execution.

MapDataManager, default

Store all data in a map data structure, using the question as the key.

from gptcache.manager import get_data_manager
from gptcache import cache

data_manager = get_data_manager()
cache.init(data_manager=data_manager)
cache.set_openai_key()

Cached storage and Vector store

The user's question and answer data can be stored in a general database such as SQLite or MySQL, while the vector obtained through the question text embedding is stored in a separate vector database.

from gptcache import cache
from gptcache.manager import get_data_manager, CacheBase, VectorBase
from gptcache.similarity_evaluation.distance import SearchDistanceEvaluation
import numpy as np

d = 8


def mock_embeddings(data, **kwargs):
    return np.random.random((d, )).astype('float32')

cache_base = CacheBase('sqlite')
vector_base = VectorBase('faiss', dimension=d)
data_manager = get_data_manager(cache_base, vector_base)
cache.init(embedding_func=mock_embeddings,
           data_manager=data_manager,
           similarity_evaluation=SearchDistanceEvaluation(),
           )
cache.set_openai_key()

Support general database

• SQLite.
• PostgreSQL.
• MySQL.
• MariaDB.
• SQL Server.
• Oracle.
• DynamoDB

Example code

Support vector database

• Milvus
• Zilliz Cloud
• FAISS
• ChromaDB

Example code

Custom Store

First, you need to implement two interfaces, namely CacheStorage and VectorBase, and then create the corresponding data manager through the get_data_manager method.

Reference: CacheStorage sqlalchemy VectorBase Faiss

from gptcache import cache
from gptcache.manager import get_data_manager

data_manager=get_data_manager(cache_base=CustomCacheStore(), vector_base=CustomVectorStore())
cache.init(data_manager=data_manager)

ExactMatchEvaluation, default

Exact match between two questions, currently only available for map data manager.

from gptcache import cache
from gptcache.similarity_evaluation.exact_match import ExactMatchEvaluation

cache.init(
           similarity_evaluation=ExactMatchEvaluation(),
           )
cache.set_openai_key()

from gptcache import cache
from gptcache.similarity_evaluation.distance import SearchDistanceEvaluation

cache.init(
           similarity_evaluation=SearchDistanceEvaluation(),
           )
cache.set_openai_key()

from gptcache import cache
from gptcache.similarity_evaluation.onnx import OnnxModelEvaluation

cache.init(
           similarity_evaluation=OnnxModelEvaluation(),
           )
cache.set_openai_key()

from gptcache import cache
from gptcache.similarity_evaluation.np import NumpyNormEvaluation

cache.init(
           similarity_evaluation=NumpyNormEvaluation(),
           )
cache.set_openai_key()

Custom similarity evaluation

To meet the requirements, you will need to implement the SimilarityEvaluation interface, which consists of two methods: evaluation and range.

• evaluation, The function takes three input values, namely user request data, cache data, and user-defined data. The last parameter, by using kwargs.get("evaluation_func", {}), is reserved for users.
• range, The return of the range function needs to return two values, which are the minimum and maximum values.

Reference: similarity evaluation dir

onnx = Onnx()
data_manager = get_data_manager(CacheBase("sqlite"), VectorBase("faiss", dimension=onnx.dimension))
one_cache = Cache()
one_cache.init(embedding_func=onnx.to_embeddings,
               data_manager=data_manager,
               evaluation_func=pair_evaluation,
               config=Config(
                   similarity_threshold=1,
                    ),
               )

question = "what do you think about chatgpt"

openai.ChatCompletion.create(
    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": question}
    ],
    cache_obj=one_cache
)

question = "what do you think about chatgpt"

openai.ChatCompletion.create(
    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": question}
    ],
    cache_context={
      "pre_embedding_func": {},
      "embedding_func": {},
      "search_func": {},
      "evaluation_func": {},
      "save_func": {},
    }
)

question = "what do you think about chatgpt"

openai.ChatCompletion.create(
    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": question}
    ],
    cache_skip=True
)

For more details, please refer to: API Reference

Session can isolate the context of each connection, and can also filter the results after recall, and if not satisfied will re-request rather than return the cache results directly.

First we need to initialize the cache:

from gptcache import cache

cache.init()
cache.set_openai_key()

Then we can set the session parameter for each request.

from gptcache.session import Session

with Session() as session:
    response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
                            model='gpt-3.5-turbo',
                            messages=[
                              {
                                  'role': 'user',
                                  'content': "what's github"
                              }],
                            session=session
                          )

The with method will delete the session data directly on exit, if you don't want to delete data in your sesion, you can run the following code but without session.drop().

If you are using LangChainLLMs, you can set the session for current LLM, e.g. llm = LangChainLLMs(llm=OpenAI(temperature=0), session=session). Or you can run the llm with specific session, e.g. llm = LangChainLLMs(llm=OpenAI(temperature=0) , and run llm(question, session=session).

You can customize the name of the sesion, and the check_hit_func method to check if a hit is satisfied, which method has four parameters:

• cur_session_id: the name of the current session

• cache_session_ids: a list of session names for caching the same content if you are using map as a data management method. Otherwise a list of session names for similar content and same answer

• cache_question: a list with one question which same as the you asked if you use a map as a data management method. Otherwise it is a list that is similar to the question you asked with the same answer, and it is correspondence with cache_session_ids

• cache_answer: the content of the cached answer

The default check_hit_func returns cur_session_id not in cache_session_ids, which means that the answers returned cannot be in the same session.

In the following code, my_check_hit is defined to check if the cached answer contains "GitHub", and return True if it does, then gptcache will continue with the subsequent evaluation operations, and if it does not contain it will return False and will re-run the request.

from gptcache.session import Session

def my_check_hit_func(cur_session_id, cache_session_ids, cache_questions, cache_answer):
    if "GitHub" in cache_answer:
        return True
    return False
session = Session(name="my-session", check_hit_func=my_check_hit_func)

response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
                          model='gpt-3.5-turbo',
                          messages=[
                            {
                                'role': 'user',
                                'content': "what's github"
                            }],
                          session=session
                        )
# session.drop() # Optional

And you can also run data_manager.list_sessions to list all the sessions.

GPTCache now supports building a server with caching and conversation capabilities. You can start a customized GPTCache service within a few lines.

Once you have GPTCache installed, you can start the server with following command:

$ gptcache_server -s [HOST] -p [PORT] -d [CACHE_DIRECTORY] -f [CACHE_CONFIG_FILE]

The args are optional:

• -s/--host: Specify the host to start GPTCache service, defaults to "0.0.0.0".
• -p/--port: Specify the port to access to the service, defaults to 8000.
• -d/--cache-dir: Specify the directory of the cache, defaults to gptcache_data folder.
• -f/--cache-config-file: Specify the YAML file to config GPTCache service, defaults to None.

GPTCache server configuration

You can config the server via a YAML file, here is an example config yaml:

embedding:
    onnx
embedding_config:
    # Set embedding model params here
storage_config:
    data_dir:
        gptcache_data
    manager:
        sqlite,faiss
    vector_params:
        # Set vector storage related params here
evaluation: 
    distance
evaluation_config:
    # Set evaluation metric kws here
pre_function:
    get_prompt
post_function:
    first
config:
    similarity_threshold: 0.8
    # Set other config here

• embedding: The embedding model source, options: How to set the embedding function
• embedding_config: The embedding model config, details: Embedding Reference
• data_dir: The cache directory.
• manager: The cache storage and vector storage.
• evaluation: The evaluation component, options: How to set the similarity evaluation interface
• evaluation_config: The evaluation config, options: Similarity Evaluation Reference
• pre_function: The pre-processing function.
• post_function: The post-processing function.
• config: The cache config, like similarity_threshold

Use the docker to start the GPTCache server

Also, you can start the service in a docker container:

• Get image from the dockerhub

  $ docker pull zilliz/gptcache:latest

• Run the service in a container with default port

  $ docker run -p 8000:8000 -it zilliz/gptcache:latest

• Run the service in a container with certain port (e.g. 8000) and config file (e.g. gptcache.yml)

  $ docker run -p 8000:8000 -it gptcache:v0 gptcache_server -s 0.0.0.0 -p 8000 -f gptcache.yml

Interact with the server

GPTCache supports two ways of interaction with the server:

• With command line:

put the data to cache

curl -X 'POST' \
  'http://localhost:8000/put' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "prompt": "Hi",
  "answer": "Hi back"
}'

get the data from the cache

curl -X 'POST' \
  'http://localhost:8000/get' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "prompt": "Hi"
}'

• With python client:

 >>> from gptcache.client import Client

 >>> client = Client(uri="http://localhost:8000")
 >>> client.put("Hi", "Hi back")
 200
 >>> client.get("Hi")
 'Hi back'

The benchmark script about the Sqlite + Faiss + ONNX

Test data source: Randomly scrape some information from the webpage (origin), and then let chatgpt produce corresponding data (similar).

• threshold: answer evaluation threshold, A smaller value means higher consistency with the content in the cache, a lower cache hit rate, and a lower cache miss hit; a larger value means higher tolerance, a higher cache hit rate, and at the same time also have higher cache misses.
• positive: effective cache hit, which means entering similar to search and get the same result as origin
• negative: cache hit but the result is wrong, which means entering similar to search and get the different result as origin
• fail count: cache miss

data file: mock_data.json similarity evaluation func: pair_evaluation (search distance)