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Integration: Cohere

Use Cohere models with Haystack

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Haystack 2.0

You can use Cohere Models in your Haystack 2.0 pipelines with the Generators and Embedders.

Installation

pip install cohere-haystack

Usage

You can use Cohere models in various ways:

Embedding Models

You can leverage /embed models from Cohere through two components: CohereTextEmbedder and CohereDocumentEmbedder. These components support both Embed v2 and Embed v3 models.

To create semantic embeddings for documents, use CohereDocumentEmbedder in your indexing pipeline. For generating embeddings for queries, use CohereTextEmbedder. Once you’ve selected the suitable component for your specific use case, initialize the component with the model name and Cohere API key.

Below is the example indexing pipeline with InMemoryDocumentStore, CohereDocumentEmbedder and DocumentWriter:

from haystack import Document, Pipeline
from haystack.document_stores.in_memory import InMemoryDocumentStore
from haystack.components.writers import DocumentWriter
from haystack_integrations.components.embedders.cohere import CohereDocumentEmbedder

document_store = InMemoryDocumentStore()

documents = [Document(content="My name is Wolfgang and I live in Berlin"),
             Document(content="I saw a black horse running"),
             Document(content="People speak French in France"),
             Document(content="Germany has many big cities")]

indexing_pipeline = Pipeline()
indexing_pipeline.add_component("embedder", CohereDocumentEmbedder(api_key="COHERE_API_KEY", model="embed-multilingual-v3.0", input_type="search_document"))
indexing_pipeline.add_component("writer", DocumentWriter(document_store=document_store))
indexing_pipeline.connect("embedder", "writer")

indexing_pipeline.run({"embedder": {"documents": documents}})

Generative Models (LLMs)

To use /generate models from Cohere, initialize a CohereGenerator with the model name and Cohere API key. You can then use this CohereGenerator in a question answering pipeline after the PromptBuilder.

Below is the example of generative questions answering pipeline using RAG with PromptBuilder and CohereGenerator:

from haystack import Pipeline
from haystack.components.retrievers.in_memory import InMemoryEmbeddingRetriever
from haystack.components.builders.prompt_builder import PromptBuilder
from haystack_integrations.components.embedders.cohere import CohereTextEmbedder
from haystack_integrations.components.generators.cohere import CohereGenerator

template = """
Given the following information, answer the question.

Context: 
{% for document in documents %}
    {{ document.text }}
{% endfor %}

Question: What's the official language of {{ country }}?
"""
pipe = Pipeline()
pipe.add_component("embedder", CohereTextEmbedder(api_key=api_key, model="embed-multilingual-v3.0"))
pipe.add_component("retriever", InMemoryEmbeddingRetriever(document_store=document_store))
pipe.add_component("prompt_builder", PromptBuilder(template=template))
pipe.add_component("llm", CohereGenerator(api_key=api_key, model="command-light"))
pipe.connect("embedder.embedding", "retriever.query_embedding")
pipe.connect("retriever", "prompt_builder.documents")
pipe.connect("prompt_builder", "llm")

pipe.run({
    "embedder": {"text": "France"},
    "prompt_builder": {"country": "France"}
})  

Similar to the above example, you can also use CohereChatGenerator to use Cohere /chat models and features (streaming, connectors) in your pipeline.

from haystack import Pipeline
from haystack.components.builders import DynamicChatPromptBuilder
from haystack.dataclasses import ChatMessage
from haystack_integrations.components.generators.cohere.chat import CohereChatGenerator


pipe = Pipeline()
pipe.add_component("prompt_builder", DynamicChatPromptBuilder())
pipe.add_component("llm", CohereChatGenerator(api_key="<COHERE_API_KEY>"))
pipe.connect("prompt_builder", "llm")

country = "Germany"
system_message = ChatMessage.from_system("You are an assistant giving out valuable information to language learners.")
messages = [system_message, ChatMessage.from_user("What's the official language of {{ country }}?")]

res = pipe.run(data={"prompt_builder": {"template_variables": {"country": "Germany"}, "prompt_source": messages}})
print(res)

Haystack 1.x

You can use Cohere Models in your Haystack pipelines with the EmbeddingRetriever, PromptNode, and CohereRanker.

Installation (1.x)

pip install farm-haystack

Usage (1.x)

You can use Cohere models in various ways:

Embedding Models

To use /embed models from Cohere, initialize an EmbeddingRetriever with the model name and Cohere API key. You can then use this EmbeddingRetriever in an indexing pipeline to create Cohere embeddings for documents and index them to a document store.

Below is the example indexing pipeline with PreProcessor, InMemoryDocumentStore and EmbeddingRetriever:

from haystack.nodes import EmbeddingRetriever
from haystack.document_stores import InMemoryDocumentStore
from haystack.pipelines import Pipeline
from haystack.schema import Document

document_store = InMemoryDocumentStore(embedding_dim=768)
preprocessor = PreProcessor()
retriever = EmbeddingRetriever(
    embedding_model="embed-multilingual-v2.0", document_store=document_store, api_key=COHERE_API_KEY
)

indexing_pipeline = Pipeline()
indexing_pipeline.add_node(component=preprocessor, name="Preprocessor", inputs=["File"])
indexing_pipeline.add_node(component=retriever, name="Retriever", inputs=["Preprocessor"])
indexing_pipeline.add_node(component=document_store, name="document_store", inputs=["Retriever"])
indexing_pipeline.run(documents=[Document("This is my document")])

Generative Models (LLMs)

To use /generate models from Cohere, initialize a PromptNode with the model name, Cohere API key and the prompt template. You can then use this PromptNode in a question answering pipeline to generate answers based on the given context.

Below is the example of generative questions answering pipeline using RAG with EmbeddingRetriever and PromptNode:

from haystack.nodes import PromptNode, EmbeddingRetriever
from haystack.pipelines import Pipeline

retriever = EmbeddingRetriever(
    embedding_model="embed-english-v2.0", document_store=document_store, api_key=COHERE_API_KEY
)
prompt_node = PromptNode(model_name_or_path="command", api_key=COHERE_API_KEY, default_prompt_template="deepset/question-answering")

query_pipeline = Pipeline()
query_pipeline.add_node(component=retriever, name="Retriever", inputs=["Query"])
query_pipeline.add_node(component=prompt_node, name="PromptNode", inputs=["Retriever"])
query_pipeline.run("YOUR_QUERY")

Ranker Models

To use /rerank models from Cohere, initialize a CohereRanker with the model name, and Cohere API key. You can then use this CohereRanker to sort documents based on their relevancy to the query.

Below is the example of document retrieval pipeline with BM25Retriever and CohereRanker:

from haystack.nodes import CohereRanker, BM25Retriever
from haystack.pipelines import Pipeline

retriever = BM25Retriever(document_store=document_store)
ranker = CohereRanker(api_key=COHERE_API_KEY, model_name_or_path="rerank-english-v2.0")

document_retrieval_pipeline = Pipeline()
document_retrieval_pipeline.add_node(component=retriever, name="Retriever", inputs=["Query"])
document_retrieval_pipeline.add_node(component=ranker, name="Ranker", inputs=["Retriever"])
document_retrieval_pipeline.run("YOUR_QUERY")