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You feed it data, but the outputs still seem...off. Maybe it's missing key context, or struggling to grasp the relationships between different pieces of information.\n\nThis is where **context augmentation** comes in. It's the secret sauce for taking large language models (LLMs) to the next level, by providing them with richer and more relevant information to work with.\n\nIn this blog post, we'll delve into the world of context augmentation, exploring a technique called **GraphRAG**. We'll break down how it works, its potential benefits, and the challenges it faces. We'll even see a practical example using MongoDB!\n\n## The Unifying Goal: Context Augmentation\n\nGraphRAG, Hybrid RAG, Hybrid GraphRAG, Agentic RAG, etc. At the core of these techniques, we find a singular objective: enriching the context available to LLMs.\nThe fundamental aim is to provide models with more comprehensive and relevant information in order to improve output quality.\nThis pursuit is a dynamic one, with new strategies and techniques continually emerging.\n\nWhile the methods may vary, the ultimate goal remains consistent: optimizing context augmentation for enhanced LLM performance.\n\n## What is GraphRAG?\n\n**GraphRAG** is a method that combines knowledge graphs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to enhance language model capabilities. It aims to provide richer, more structured context for LLMs by leveraging the interconnected nature of information within a knowledge graph.\n\n### The Core of GraphRAG\n\nA key characteristic of GraphRAG is its heavy reliance on LLMs for one critical task:\n\n1. **Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction:** GraphRAG often employs LLMs to extract entities and relationships from textual data, automatically building a knowledge graph. This approach, while promising, introduces challenges related to LLM limitations such as bias, hallucinations, and difficulty in capturing complex relationships.\n\nWhile GraphRAG offers potential benefits in terms of providing structured context, its effectiveness is contingent upon the accuracy and completeness of the automatically constructed knowledge graph, as well as the LLM's ability to accurately interpret the input.\n\nIn this example, we'll be using the knowledge graph primarily as a data store from which we can retrieve information. Specifically, in our Python example, we navigate through the knowledge graph to identify companies that are associated with a particular individual.\n\n## GraphRAG Pipeline\n\n**Core Concept:** Leverage a knowledge graph to enhance Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).\n\n1. **Knowledge Graph Construction:** Utilize LLM's capabilities to automate the creation of a comprehensive knowledge graph.\n\n2. **Query Understanding:** Pre-process user queries to identify key entities and relationships.\n\n3. **Graph Traversal:** Navigate through the knowledge graph based on the understood query.\n\n4. **Contextual Enrichment:** Merge the retrieved graph information with the original text to provide a richer context.\n\n5. **Response Generation:** Leverage an LLM to generate a detailed and informative response.\n\n\n## The Challenge of Automatic Relationship Extraction\n\n![](https://github.com/ranfysvalle02/blog-drafts/blob/main/docs2graph.jpg)\n\nWhile the concept of automatically building knowledge graphs from raw data is appealing, the reality has many challenges.\n\n* **LLM Limitations:**\n  * **Lost in the Middle Problem:** The attention mechanism for focusing on important content in the middle of long inputs might not prioritize mid-sequence information effectively.\n  * **Bias:** LLMs are trained on massive datasets that can contain biases, leading to skewed relationship extraction.\n  * **Hallucinations:** They can invent relationships that don't exist, compromising data integrity.\n  * **Limited Understanding:** Deep understanding of complex relationships, especially domain-specific ones, remains elusive.\n* **Data Quality:**\n  * **Noise:** Impurities in data can lead to incorrect relationship extraction.\n  * **Ambiguity:** Textual data can be ambiguous, making accurate interpretation difficult.\n* **Domain Specificity:**\n  * **Unique Relationships:** Industries often have specific terminology and relationship types not captured in general language models.\n\n### How does GraphRAG differ from Vector RAG?\n\n![](https://github.com/ranfysvalle02/blog-drafts/blob/main/kg.png)\n\n* **Vector RAG** relies on vector embeddings to represent information and uses similarity search to retrieve relevant documents. It struggles with higher-order reasoning and complex queries.\n* **GraphRAG** uses a knowledge graph to represent information, capturing entities, actions, and their relationships. This allows for more complex reasoning and the ability to answer questions that require understanding underlying connections.\n\n* **Higher-order questions:** GraphRAG can handle complex questions like \"Show me all Accounts, Product Groups at risk of late delivery? Explain why?\" by traversing the knowledge graph to identify relevant entities and relationships.\n* **Chain of thought reasoning:** By understanding entities, actions, and outcomes, GraphRAG can mimic human-like reasoning, breaking down problems into smaller steps. For example, it can identify factors impacting product delivery, analyze inventory levels, and consider supplier performance.\n* **Leveraging private knowledge:** GraphRAG can incorporate domain-specific knowledge (like a warehouse manager's mental model) into the graph, enabling deeper understanding and better decision-making.\n\n## Red Flags to Look For\n\n* **Inaccurate or incomplete knowledge graph:** This can lead to incorrect or misleading information.\n* **Poor graph connectivity:** A sparsely connected graph can limit the ability to find relevant information.\n* **Overfitting to the knowledge graph:** The model might become too reliant on the graph.\n* **High computational costs:** Excessive resource consumption can limit the practicality of GraphRAG.\n* **Limited explainability:** While GraphRAG improves explainability, complex graph structures can still be difficult to interpret.\n\n## Good Data for GraphRAG\n\n* **Rich in entities and relationships:** The data should contain abundant information about entities and their connections.\n* **Consistent and accurate:** Data should be free from errors and inconsistencies to ensure the reliability of the knowledge graph.\n* **Diverse and representative:** The data should cover a wide range of topics and perspectives to avoid biases.\n* **Well-structured:** Data that is easily processed and transformed into a graph format is ideal.\n* **Domain-specific:** Data aligned with the target application domain is crucial for effective knowledge graph construction.\n\n## Bad Data for GraphRAG\n\n* **Sparse and noisy:** Data with limited information or many errors can hinder knowledge graph construction.\n* **Inconsistent and contradictory:** Conflicting information can lead to inaccuracies in the graph.\n* **Biased and unbalanced:** Data that represents only a specific viewpoint can limit the graph's generalizability.\n* **Poorly structured:** Data that is difficult to process and extract information from can slow down development.\n* **Irrelevant:** Data unrelated to the target application domain is a waste of resources.\n\n\n## Python Example (using MongoDB)\n```\nfrom enum import Enum\nfrom typing import List\nimport json\nfrom pymongo import MongoClient\nimport spacy\nfrom openai import AzureOpenAI\n\n# Load English tokenizer, tagger, parser, NER and word vectors\nnlp = spacy.load(\"en_core_web_sm\")\n\n# Replace with your actual values\nMDB_URI = \"\"\nMDB_DATABASE = \"\"\nMDB_COLL = \"\"\nAZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT = \"\"\nAZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY = \"\"\ndeployment_name = \"gpt-4o-mini\"  # The name of your model deployment\n\n# Initialize Azure OpenAI client\naz_client = AzureOpenAI(azure_endpoint=AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT,api_version=\"2023-07-01-preview\",api_key=AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY)\n\nclass Relationship(Enum):\n\tWORKED_AT = \"worked at\"\n\tFOUNDED = \"founded\"\n\n# List of documents to create the knowledge graph\ndocuments = [\n\t\"Steve Jobs founded Apple.\",\n\t\"Before Apple, Steve Jobs worked at Atari.\",\n\t\"Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple together.\",\n\t\"After leaving Apple, Steve Jobs founded NeXT.\",\n\t\"Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs worked together at Apple.\",\n\t\"Bill Gates founded Microsoft.\",\n\t\"Microsoft and Apple were rivals in the early days of the personal computer market.\",\n\t\"Bill Gates worked at Microsoft for many years before stepping down as CEO.\",\n\t\"Elon Musk founded SpaceX.\",\n\t\"Before SpaceX, Elon Musk founded PayPal.\",\n\t\"Elon Musk also founded Tesla, a company that produces electric vehicles.\",\n\t\"Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.\",\n\t\"Amazon started as an online bookstore before expanding into other markets.\",\n\t\"Jeff Bezos also founded Blue Origin, a space exploration company.\",\n\t\"Blue Origin and SpaceX are competitors in the private space industry.\"\n]\n\nclass Node:\n\t\"\"\"Represents a node in the knowledge graph.\"\"\"\n\tdef __init__(self, name: str, type: str):\n    \tself.name = name\n    \tself.type = type\n\nclass Edge:\n\t\"\"\"Represents an edge in the knowledge graph.\"\"\"\n\tdef __init__(self, source_node: Node, target_node: Node, relation: str):\n    \tself.source_node = source_node\n    \tself.target_node = target_node\n    \tself.relation = relation\n\n\tdef __eq__(self, other):\n    \tif isinstance(other, Edge):\n        \treturn self.source_node.name == other.source_node.name and self.target_node.name == other.target_node.name and self.relation == other.relation\n    \treturn False\n\n\tdef __hash__(self):\n    \treturn hash((self.source_node.name, self.target_node.name, self.relation))\n\nclass KnowledgeGraph:\n\t\"\"\"Creates a knowledge graph from a list of documents.\"\"\"\n\tdef __init__(self, documents: List[str]):\n    \tself.documents = documents\n    \tself.nodes = {}\n    \tself.edges = []\n    \t# Connect to MongoDB\n    \tself.client = MongoClient(MDB_URI)\n\n\tdef store_in_mongodb(self, db_name: str, collection_name: str):\n    \t\"\"\"Stores the knowledge graph in MongoDB.\"\"\"\n    \tdb = self.client[db_name]\n    \tcollection = db[collection_name]\n    \tcollection.delete_many({})\n    \t# Convert nodes and edges to a format suitable for MongoDB\n    \tfor name, node in self.nodes.items():\n        \tnode_data = {'_id': name, 'type': node.type, 'edges': []}\n        \tfor edge in self.edges:\n            \tif edge.source_node.name == name:\n                \tnode_data['edges'].append({'relation': edge.relation, 'target': edge.target_node.name})\n        \tcollection.insert_one(node_data)\n    \n\tdef create_knowledge_graph(self):\n    \t\"\"\"Creates a knowledge graph from the list of documents.\"\"\"\n    \tfor document in self.documents:\n        \trelationships = []\n        \tprompt = f\"Identify relationships in the text: ```{str(document)}```\\n\"\n        \tprompt += \"Following relationships are possible: ```\"\n        \tprompt += \", \".join([rel.value for rel in Relationship])\n        \tprompt += \"\"\"```\n\tFormat concise response as a JSON object with only two keys called \"relationships\", and \"nodes\".\n\tThe value of the \"relationships\" key should be a list of objects each with these fields (source, source_type, relation, target, target_type).\n\tIF NO RELATIONSHIP IS FOUND, RETURN EMPTY LIST.\n\tIF NO NODES ARE FOUND, RETURN EMPTY LIST.\n\n\t[response criteria]\n\t- JSON object: { \"relationships\": [], \"nodes\": [] }\n\t- each relationship should be of the format: { \"source\": \"Alice\", \"source_type\": \"person\", \"target\": \"MongoDB\", \"relation\": \"worked at\", \"target_type\": \"company\" }\n\t- each node should be of the format: { \"name\": \"MongoDB\", \"type\": \"company\" }\n\t[end response criteria]\n\t\"\"\"\n        \ttry:\n            \tresponse = az_client.chat.completions.create(\n                        \tmodel=deployment_name,\n                        \tmessages=[\n                            \t{\"role\": \"system\", \"content\": \"You are a helpful assistant that extracts the name of the person being asked about.\"},\n                            \t{\"role\": \"system\", \"content\": \"You specialize in identifying these relationships: \" + \", \".join([rel.value for rel in Relationship])},\n                            \t{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": prompt},\n                        \t],\n                        \tresponse_format={ \"type\": \"json_object\" }\n            \t)\n            \tcompletion = json.loads(response.choices[0].message.content.strip())\n           \t \n            \t# Parse the OpenAI response\n            \tfor r in completion[\"relationships\"]:\n                \trelationships.append((r[\"source\"],r[\"source_type\"],r[\"target\"], r[\"relation\"],r[\"target_type\"]))\n            \tfor n in completion[\"nodes\"]:\n                \tself.nodes[n[\"name\"]] = Node(n[\"name\"],n[\"type\"])\n           \t \n        \texcept Exception as e:\n            \tprint(f\"Error extracting relationships: {e}\")\n\n        \tfor source, source_type, target, relation, target_type in relationships:\n            \tif source in self.nodes and target in self.nodes:\n                \tedge = Edge(self.nodes[source], self.nodes[target], relation)\n                \tif edge not in self.edges:  # Check for duplicate edges\n                    \tself.edges.append(edge)\n\n\tdef print_knowledge_graph(self):\n    \t\"\"\"Prints the nodes and edges of the knowledge graph.\"\"\"\n    \tprint(\"\\nNodes:\")\n    \tfor node in self.nodes.values():\n        \tprint(node.name)\n\n    \tprint(\"\\nEdges:\")\n    \tfor edge in self.edges:\n        \tprint(f\"{edge.source_node.name} {edge.relation} {edge.target_node.name}\")\n\n\tdef find_related_companies(self, person_name: str):\n    \t\"\"\"Finds companies related to a person using the knowledge graph stored in MongoDB.\"\"\"\n    \tdb = self.client[\"apollo-salesops\"]\n    \tcollection = db[\"__kg\"]\n\n    \tpipeline = [\n        \t{\n            \t\"$match\": {\n                \t\"_id\": person_name\n            \t}\n        \t},\n        \t{\n            \t\"$graphLookup\": {\n                \t\"from\": \"__kg\",\n                \t\"startWith\": \"$edges.target\",\n                \t\"connectFromField\": \"edges.target\",\n                \t\"connectToField\": \"_id\",\n                \t\"as\": \"related_companies\",\n                \t\"depthField\": \"depth\"\n            \t}\n        \t},\n        \t{\n            \t\"$project\": {\n                \t\"_id\": 0,\n                \t\"related_companies._id\": 1,\n                \t\"related_companies.type\": 1,\n                \t\"related_companies.depth\": 1\n            \t}\n        \t}\n    \t]\n\n    \tresult = collection.aggregate(pipeline)\n    \treturn list(result)\n\n\n# Create the knowledge graph\nknowledge_graph = KnowledgeGraph(documents)\nknowledge_graph.create_knowledge_graph()\nknowledge_graph.print_knowledge_graph()\nprint(\"Knowledge graph created and printed.\")\nprint(\"Storing knowledge graph in MongoDB.\")\nknowledge_graph.store_in_mongodb(MDB_DATABASE, MDB_COLL)\nprint(\"Knowledge graph stored in MongoDB.\")\nprint(\"Lets begin.\")\nQ = \"Write a rap about Elon Musk\"\nprint(\"User Prompt: \" + Q)\nprint(\"QUERY UNDERSTANDING: Extract the name of the person in the prompt.\")\ntext = nlp(Q)\nperson = \"\"\nfor entity in text.ents:\n\tif entity.label_ == \"PERSON\":\n    \tprint(\"Person: \")\n    \tprint(entity.text.strip(',.'))\n    \tperson = entity.text.strip(',')\n    \tbreak\nprint(\"GRAPH TRAVERSAL: Find related companies to the person.\")\ncontext_fusion = knowledge_graph.find_related_companies(person)\nprint(\"RELATED COMPANIES:\")\nprint(context_fusion)\nprint(\"Contextual Fusion: Combines graph information with textual context.\")\nmsgs = [\n\t{\"role\": \"system\", \"content\": \"You are a helpful assistant that uses the provided additional context to generate more relevant responses.\"},\n\t{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Given this user prompt: \" + Q},\n\t{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Given this additional context: ```\\n\" + str(context_fusion)+\"\\n```\"},\n\t{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"\"\"\n \tRespond to the user prompt in JSON format.\n[response format]\n \t- JSON object: { \"response\": \"answer goes here\" }\n\"\"\"\n\t},\n]\nprint(\n\tjson.dumps(msgs, indent=2)\n)\nprint(\"Language Model: Generates human-like text based on provided information.\")\nai_response = az_client.chat.completions.create(model=deployment_name,\n\tmessages=msgs,\n\tresponse_format={ \"type\": \"json_object\" }\n)\nai_response = json.loads(ai_response.choices[0].message.content.strip())\nprint(\n\tai_response.get(\"response\")\n)\n```\n\n## Output\n\n```\nNodes:\nSteve Jobs\nApple\nAtari\nSteve Wozniak\nNeXT\nBill Gates\nMicrosoft\nElon Musk\nSpaceX\nPayPal\nTesla\nJeff Bezos\nAmazon\nBlue Origin\n\nEdges:\nSteve Jobs founded Apple\nSteve Jobs worked at Atari\nSteve Wozniak founded Apple\nSteve Jobs founded NeXT\nSteve Wozniak worked at Apple\nSteve Jobs worked at Apple\nBill Gates founded Microsoft\nBill Gates worked at Microsoft\nElon Musk founded SpaceX\nElon Musk founded PayPal\nElon Musk founded Tesla\nJeff Bezos founded Amazon\nJeff Bezos founded Blue Origin\nKnowledge graph created and printed.\nStoring knowledge graph in MongoDB.\nKnowledge graph stored in MongoDB.\nLets begin.\nUser Prompt: Write a rap about Elon Musk\nQUERY UNDERSTANDING: Extract the name of the person in the prompt.\nPerson:\nElon Musk\nGRAPH TRAVERSAL: Find related companies to the person.\nRELATED COMPANIES:\n[{'related_companies': [{'_id': 'PayPal', 'type': 'company', 'depth': 0}, {'_id': 'SpaceX', 'type': 'company', 'depth': 0}, {'_id': 'Tesla', 'type': 'company', 'depth': 0}]}]\nContextual Fusion: Combines graph information with textual context.\n[\n  {\n\t\"role\": \"system\",\n\t\"content\": \"You are a helpful assistant that uses the provided additional context to generate more relevant responses.\"\n  },\n  {\n\t\"role\": \"user\",\n\t\"content\": \"Given this user prompt: Write a rap about Elon Musk\"\n  },\n  {\n\t\"role\": \"user\",\n\t\"content\": \"Given this additional context: ```\\n[{'related_companies': [{'_id': 'PayPal', 'type': 'company', 'depth': 0}, {'_id': 'SpaceX', 'type': 'company', 'depth': 0}, {'_id': 'Tesla', 'type': 'company', 'depth': 0}]}]\\n```\"\n  },\n  {\n\t\"role\": \"user\",\n\t\"content\": \"\\n \tRespond to the user prompt in JSON format.\\n[response format]\\n \t- JSON object: { \\\"response\\\": \\\"answer goes here\\\" }\\n\"\n  }\n]\nLanguage Model: Generates human-like text based on provided information.\nYo, let me drop a verse about the man named Elon,\nFrom PayPal streets to space, he's a true phenom.\nStarted with the bucks, making money on the run,\nNow he’s launching rockets, man, ain’t that some fun?\n\nSpaceX in the sky, reppin' the red, white, and blue,\nFalcon rockets soaring, making dreams come true.\nStarlink in the clouds, internet for the masses,\nConnecting all the corners, breaking all the barriers, classes.\n\nThen there's Tesla, take a ride in the future,\nElectric dreams rolling, silent like a suturer.\nSustainable vibes, he’s changing up the game,\nWith each new model, we all look on, stake our claim.\n\nInnovator in the lab, pushing limits to the edge,\nWith a vision so vivid, he walks that razor's ledge.\nTo Mars he wants to go, colonize the red, (hey!)\nWith his mind in the stars, and the world in his thread.\n\nSo here's to you, Elon, keep reaching for the sky,\nIn this rap we celebrate, let your ambitions fly.\nFrom Earth to the stars, with a bright LED glow,\nYou’re the rocket man, let the whole world know!\n```\n \n## Conclusion\n\nGraphRAG offers a glimpse into the future of AI, where machines can not only process information but also understand and reason about the world in a way that is more akin to human cognition. The knowledge graph stands as a foundational component in the evolution of artificial intelligence, providing a structured framework for representing and connecting information. By serving as a comprehensive repository of entities, attributes, and relationships, the knowledge graph empowers AI systems to reason, learn, and adapt in ways previously unimaginable.\n\nHowever, it's important to note that the implementation of GraphRAG doesn't necessarily require a dedicated graph database. In fact, if your data is already stored in MongoDB, restructuring it for a graph database may not be the most efficient approach. MongoDB is fully capable of holding graph-structured data, and if only a few hops are required, a dedicated graph database might be overkill. Moreover, if a significant number of hops are needed, the volume of context returned could lead to a costly solution.\n\nConsider a sample document in MongoDB:\n\n```json\n{\n  \"_id\": \"Steve Wozniak\",\n  \"type\": \"person\",\n  \"edges\": [\n\t{\n  \t\"relation\": \"founded\",\n  \t\"target\": \"Apple\"\n\t},\n\t{\n  \t\"relation\": \"worked at\",\n  \t\"target\": \"Apple\"\n\t}\n  ]\n}\n```\n\nIn this example, MongoDB effectively stores the relationships associated with the person \"Steve Wozniak\" in a structured and easily accessible format. The \"edges\" field encapsulates the relationships, each defined by a specific \"relation\" and \"target\". This structure not only facilitates efficient retrieval and understanding of the relationships linked to \"Steve Wozniak\", but also sets the stage for advanced operations like graph traversal.\n\nMongoDB's $graphLookup operator is a powerful tool that allows for recursive search operations, enabling efficient traversal of the knowledge graph. In the context of our sample document, $graphLookup can be used to navigate through the \"edges\" of \"Steve Wozniak\", following the \"relation\" and \"target\" fields to find related entities. This operation can be performed multiple times, or \"hops\", to explore deeper relationships in the graph.\n\nAs context augmentation strategies evolve and data quality improves, we can expect AI systems to become more adept at reasoning, collaboration, and tackling complex problems. The future of AI hinges on its ability to move beyond simple data processing and towards a more nuanced understanding of the world. The optimal context augmentation strategy will depend on the specific needs of the application, the available data (including its volume, structure, and quality), the desired level of performance (e.g., accuracy, speed), and computational resources. By exploring and combining various approaches, researchers and developers can unlock the full potential of context augmentation and empower AI systems to tackle complex challenges in an increasingly interconnected world.\n\n\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Franfysvalle02%2Fmongodb-graph","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Franfysvalle02%2Fmongodb-graph","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Franfysvalle02%2Fmongodb-graph/lists"}